Andreas Schlegel is an Explorer, Artist, Teacher, and Programmer.

Currently Andreas is teaching in the Faculty of Media Arts at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore. Before joining Lasalle, he worked for new media company Art+Com in Berlin, Germany. With experiences in academic, artistic, and commercial environments for the past 8 years, his focus is on creating interactive and auto-active media installations and objects as well as online and mobile based works.

Andreas' research interest is located in the fields of user interfaces, networked communication and creating audio-visual experiences using computational and generative processes.

He is interested in collecting data, sensing spaces, generating moving objects in realtime, and exploring communication processes in the fields of networks. sojamo is the virtual container of his work, a place for archived information of his personal interests and curiosity.

In 1996, Andreas began his studies in communication design at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart where he graduate in 2000 with a Master of Arts. in 2001 he began his studies in Media Arts and Technology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he received his Master of Science in 2004.

In between the gaps he was co-founding a design bureau in Stuttgart, working as a freelance programmer and designer, living and working in Berlin. in 2007 he moved to Singapore to pass on his knowledge, experience, and passion for media arts to his students.

Born 1975 in Stuttgart, Germany.

"These days I spend most of my time with teaching and working on syntfarm projects. I write libraries and contribute to the processing.org community."

Work Experience
  • 2007 - present Lecturer, Pathway Coordinator, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
  • 2005-2007 Gestalter, Art Direction. Art+Com, Berlin, Germany
  • 2004 Freelance Designer, Stuttgart/Berlin, Germany
  • 1998-2001 buero diffus, Co-Founder, Design and Software Development. Stuttgart, Germany
Exhibitions and Performances
  • 2009 Synthazards, installation with syntfarm. Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
  • 2009 Manifold, Group Show. The Substation, Singapore
  • 2008 ISEA 2008 Group Show / AIR, Syntboutique with syntfarm. National Museum Singapore, Singapore
  • 2008 Choppa, AV-performance with syntfarm. Singapore
  • 2008 Spaceflat, Group Show. Night&Day Gallery, Singapore
  • 2007 Dislocate 07, AV-performance with syntfarm. Tokyo, Japan
  • 2007 Enter3, International Festival for arts, science and technologies, with syntfarm. Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2007 Choppa, AV-performance with syntfarm. Singapore
  • 2006 arco06, Sensing Speaking Space with George Legrady. Madrid, Spain
  • 2005 Connectors, sound and image processing festival. AV performance with Brian O'Reilly. Bristol, UK
  • 2004 Lange Nacht der Museen, Media facade projection with Art+Com. Berlin, Germany
  • 2003 Ars Electronica, Pockets full of Memories with George Legrady. Linz, Austria
  • 2003 Reality Zone[I], Group Show. UC DARNet. Santa Barbara, USA
  • 2002 Innerspace, AV performance with Kiku Hibino. Santa Barbara, USA
  • 2002 ISEA 02, Sensing Speaking Space with George Legrady. Nagoya, Japan
  • 2002 Activate the Medium Festival, with George Legrady. SFMOMA. San Francisco, USA
Education
  • 2004 Master of Science, Media Arts and Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  • 2000 Master of Arts, European Media Master of Arts, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • 2000 Diploma, Communication Design, Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Germany
Teaching and Workshops
  • 2007 - present Faculty of Media Arts, Interactive Art, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
  • 2006 processing workshop with focus on gps, Merz Akademie Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2005 processing workshop with focus on networking, UDK Berlin. Berlin, Germany
  • 2005 processing workshop with focus on sensors, Merz Akademie Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2004 "design and programming" class, Bauhaus Universität Weimar. Weimar, Germany
  • 2001 - 2003 Teaching Assistant, Media Arts and Technology Program UCSB. Santa Barbara, USA
  • 2000 - 2001 "design and programming" class, Merz Akademie Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany
Presentations
  • 2008 ISEA 2008 Symposium, Singapore
  • 2007 Rojak 10, Singapore Design Festival, Singapore
  • 2005 Design Conference era05. Oslo, Norway
  • 2005 Connectors, sound and image processing festival. Bristol, UK
  • 2004 Dorkbot socal. Los Angeles, USA
Field Trips
  • 2008 Round Trip Mongolia, Mongolia
  • 2007 Mount Fuji, Japan
  • 2007 Kusu Island, SIngapore
  • 2007 Bukit Timah Rainforest, Singapore
  • 2003 Campalto Island, visiting Makrolab, Italy
  • 2002 Mojave Desert, USA