Recent Activities
#Unit Festival I will give a talk and a workshop on making your own Wearable tech on April 16 2016! More information and registration here: Wearables 101 Workshop
IXDS Technical Lead for very cool Interactive Installations! October 2015- present Fashiontech day at Berlin Fashion Week with Elektrocouture and Dimensionalley. Technical Lead, rewiring and 3D print design for the Gio Pentagon Necklace crystal for WXYZ January 20, 2016 Little Web Giants Front End Webdeveloper, April - October 2015 Heart Ibiza with Anouk Wipprecht: Technical Assistant, microcontroller programming for the Bubblegum dress. July 11-17 2015 Berlin Fashion Week Audi Fashion Show with Anouk Wipprecht: Technical Assistant, 3D modeling, electronics and microcontroller programming for the LED Matrix dress, technical support backstage and during the show. July 4-8 2015 Heart of the City with Anaisa Franco: Technical Consultant, 3D Model analysis and surface calculation of the sculpture for LED strip placement. Vivid Sydney, April 2015 SP Fashion: Technical Consultant and Digital Studio Manager for fashion designer Stefano Pilati in Berlin. Tasks include Asset Management, 2D and 3D Workflows, General Hardware and Software Maintenance and Technical HR and Research and Development. November 2012 - Present Meshcon: Gave a short talk about 3D visualization of sewing patterns in the fashion industry. October 2014 3D Printshow London: Attended this fantastic event, full of amazing machines, great presentations, fun show and wonderful people! The Brewery, London, October 19-21st 2012 and September 4-6 2014 Animago: Attended Berlin's own international visual effects and animation conference. Great to see old friends and make new ones, thanks to everyone who shared their expertise with me and congratulations to all the participants and winners of the Animago awards! Babelsberg Filmpark, Potsdam, October 25-26 2012 Campus Party Europe: Stage manager and content/speaker coordinator for topics such as robotics, hardware hacks, computer modding, astronomy, nanotechnology and more! Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, August 21-26 2012 Fusion Festival : Hanging out at the Robofield with Robocross, Paka and other robo-greats! Helped pack up Stickboy! June 28 - July 1st, 2012. Sonar Festival Music Hack day : Hacking in Barcelona and enjoying the music! What a great hackathon that was! Worked on the Park Explorer App for Kulturpark with Erik Woitschig. Saw Amon Tobin live!! June 16-18 2012. Robodock Amsterdam : At last, robodreamland! My first time at this great machine/art festival! June 7-9 2012. Pictoplasma Berlin : finally had the chance to go to this great conference on character design and animation and had the honor of attending and assisting Mark Gmehling with his Cinema 4D wokshop! 11-15 April 2012. Droidcon Hackathon :Sharing 2nd place with ligi's awesome Bismo app! Amongst other things, we added a nice droidcon schedule screen with the help of droidcon's own designer, Marie Schweiz! March 12, 2012. Kulturpark 2012: I have been invited to participate in the Spreepark project this Summer! Woohoo! Possibly an Augmented Reality project will be in the works... Project postponed to Music Hack Day at Sonar! Phudge App : Our entry was the winner at Photohackday! Now we prepare for our winner's trip to London to present our app to AKQA, one of the main sponsors! Feb 25-26, 2012. Cut n' paste Berlin 3d Competition: Participated in the 3d category for the Berlin edition! Feb 02, 2012. Trampoline Tracing Mobility: Berlin Curated and coordinated the Open Platform events during the Tracing Mobility show at the HKW. November 2011. Birds in the Tree: Interactive installation with Dale Phurrough. Illuminated tree and sensors, 3D models, commisioned by Naherholung Sternchen,16th and 29th of September 2011. Dadatek presents: K.I.T.A: the art of playfulism group show and party. Participating as cyberpuppet with Modern Primitive, an animated robot face, June 4th 2011. Trampoline Tracing Mobility: Berlin Discussion with the team and artists of the upcoming event at the HKW in November 2011. Supermarket Art Fair 2011: Stockholm. Collaboration with MNKY BIZZ, the rolling sales agent robot. Bridge Markland's "The Broken Jug" (Heinrich von Kleist). October 2008. Puppet creator for this ambitious one actor and seven puppet performance! Stage assistant for Theater Fragile's presentation of the mask theater show "Wir treffen uns im Paradies", July 8-17, August 30, Berlin, 2008. Participant at the Emergent Objects Colloquium at the University of Leeds. December 17-20, 2007. Presenter for the Viktoria Institute's Glowbots project at Wired NextFest, Los Angeles. September 14-16 and SIGGRAPH San Diego, Emerging Technologies Section, August 4-9, 2007 Robotics Instructor for iDTech Camps at the UC Davis location July-August 2007. |
Tank Thunderbird
Tank is an international technical artist (Colombia, Venezuela, USA) currently living in Berlin. She has a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota and a Master in Art and Technology from Chalmers University of Technology. She currently works as a Technical Lead for UX Design projects and as a Technical Assistant for Interactive Art and Wearable Tech projects. She is also a web developer and a 2D and 3D animation artist. Past projects include multimedia shows, interactive installations, app and webdesign, robotics and wearable technologies. She enjoys learning new programming languages and software tools as well as playing the drums, toying with the Leap Motion controller and making stuff with her RepRapPro Mendel 3D printer. Full CV available upon request. |
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