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About Me

Nice to see you! My name is Tobias Leingruber, I’m 24 and diploma student at the New Media programm of the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart (Germany), a cool place for communication design and art. I’m a designer and programmer, in love with the internet - It’s culture, technologys and endless creative possibilities.

In 2008 I spent one semester at the Eyebeam Art & Technology Center in New York. I am part of the artist collective Free Art and Technology Lab ( F.A.T. Lab) and I used to hang out as an Intern at the Rocketboom internet video start up. I did an exchange semester at the Piet Zwart Institute for Media Design MA in Rotterdam, and I’m a scholarship student of the German Student Foundation. (They pay my travelling ) At the moment I’m travelling with my latest project artzilla.org, a platform for experimental browser software. I will also do my diploma about this topic.

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Presentations, Exhibitions, Workshops etc.:

2009	Boston, US, April 2010 ROFLcon 2 at M.I.T. Internets On Canvas Exhibit
	Berlin, DE, 02/07/2010 - 02/09/2010 Transmediale “Futurity Now” Artzilla.org browser hacking workshop
	Berlin, DE, 02/07/2010 - 02/09/2010 Transmediale “Futurity Now” F.A.T. Lab award nominee + workshop
	Berlin, DE, 31/10/2009 - 25/11/2009 Skate The Web Solo Show, Tobias Leingruber
	Vienna, AT, 10/25/2009 - 11/25/2009 Black River Festival, Skatekeyboard
	Den Bosch, NL, 10/08/2009 RECYCLE! Conference, AKV St. Joost Art Academy
	Prague, CZ, 10/03/2009 - 10/04/2009 EU MozCamp 2009, Artzilla.org
	Belfast, 08/28/2009 canceled ISEA 2009, SPARK Exhibition
	Berlin, 07/30/2009 Pecha Kucha @ Platoon F.A.T. Lab w/ Aram Bartholl
	Tokyo, 07/03/2009 - 07/05/2009 Cultural Typhoon, Toyko University of Foreign Studies
	Karlsruhe (Germany), 06/09/2009 Challenging Legality in Art, talk, HFG Karlsruhe (University for Design)
	Berlin, 03/28/2009 Presentation at MAOW 2009, C-Base
	New York City, 01/29/2009 Presentation at Google Creative Lab (thanks, Jii)
	Mountain View, CA, 01/29/2009 Presentation at the Mozilla HQ
	New York City, 01/26/2009 NYC Resistor, Firefox Workshop w/ Jamie Wilkinson
	New York City, 01/24/2009 ROFLthing, Talk “Firefox Art”
	Stuttgart, 01/25/2009 -01/28/2009 Stuttgarter Filmwinter, On/Offline Exhibition
2008	Berlin, 12/28/2008 Lightning talk with Aram Bartholl at the CCC Congress
	Rotterdam, NL, 12/13/2008 Artzilla.org Launch Party // Browser Hacks Exhibition Curator
	Hong Kong, 10/06/08 - 11/04/08 Videotage, “China Channel Installation”
	Enschede, NL, 09/18/08 - 09/21/08 Gogbot Festival, “The Timemachine” installation
	Singapore, 07/29/2008 ISEA 2008, presentation of “Coke and Menthos Taskforce”
	Singapore, 07/22/08 - 07/29/08 ASEF Art Camp “The Art of Gaming” participiant
	NYC, event, 05/22/2008 New Museum (Steve Lambert and add-art team)
	New York City, 05/07/2008 talk at Parsons School of Design (CDT)
	Stuttgart, 04/05/2008 “hyper_bellz”, group exhibition, Stadtbücherei
	Berlin, 02/01/2008 Assistance of Aram Bartholls “chat”, Club Transmediale
2007	Stuttgart, 10/13/2007 “The Timemachine”, group exhibition, Kulturnacht
	Berlin, 09/25/2007 “The Timemachine” presentation, Pecha Kucha Night
	Stuttgart, 09/24/2007 “Fun with Social Networks” presentation, Webmontag
	Linz, 09/09/2007 “The Timemachine” kitchen presentation, Ars Electronica
	Linz, 09/05/07 - 09/11/07 “Second City Shop”, Aram Bartholl, Ars Electronica Festival
	Stuttgart, 08/13/2007 “Hoebot” presentation, Pecha Kucha Night
	Cologne, 06/12/2007 “Studivz Crawler” presentation, Pecha Kucha Night
	Stuttgart, 01/30/2007 “Studivz Crawler” presentation, Merz Akademie

Selected Media:

2009 coming soon	Digital Folklore Reader, (Lialina & Espenschied) soon to be published by Merz & Solitude
11/13/2009	Sueddeutsche Zeitung Es werde Kunst!
10/19/2009	Gizmodo.com What Could Possible Go Wrong on a Skatekeyboard?
2009	New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, Publication “Younger than Jesus” Artist directory”
02/12/2009	New York Times Technology Blog “Firefox Add-Ons Double as Art, Pranks and Fun”
02/08/2009	Flash Art Magazine 274, Italy “Firefox Art”
12/22/2008	Rhizome at the New Museum, NYC “Artzilla is live!”
12/05/2008	Wired Threat Level Blog Amazon.com Add-On Hack Was a University Project
12/05/2008	New York Times Technology Blog “Pirates of the Amazon Abandon Ship”
12/04/2008	Wired Threat Level Blog “Amazon.com Tossed Into Pirate Bay Jungle”
10/30/2008	Spiegel Online, Germany “Surfen wie in China”
10/29/2008	Cnet download.com “Explore the Web from China–without leaving home”
10/28/2008	Los Angeles Times Blog “Just try surfing the Web in China. Seriously, here’s how”
05/19/2008	Bayrischer Rundfunk, Video Portrait “At Eyebeam in NYC”
03/15/2008	Rhizome.org at the New Museum, NYC “Hoebot and Lovebot invade the german facebook”
11/2007	Digital Tools Blog, Interview “For me Firefox is a new kind of operating system”
06/29/2007	Badische Zeitung, Germany “German Facebook: Students expose security/privacy issues”
09/12/2007	Joachim Stein, Art Curator “Surfing Like it’s 1996″

Short Vita:

1984	Born in Germany / Baden Württemberg
1995	My first computer (Intel 80286)
1997	Connected to the internet (64k)
2002	High School graduate year in Tacoma/ WA (USA)
2003	Engineer College (Hans Thoma Schule, TG)
2005	Abitur (German graduation for Diploma studies)
2005	Prisma Productions, Photography, Internship(6 months)
2006	Student at the “New Media” communication design Diplom programm, Merz Akademie (FH), University of Applied Arts, Stuttgart (GER)
2008	NYC, Eyebeam Art & Technology Research Center, Internship
2008	Scholarship student of the “German Student Foundation”
2008	NYC, Rocketboom Internet Video, Internship
2008	Rotterdam, Student exchange @ Piet Zwart Institute for MA Media Design
2009	…