Tobias Leingruber (@tbx) is an artist and communication designer. His work explores and exposes the mutual impacts of communication technologies and society. The web belongs to us!
Leingruber has worked with many artists and organisations including the Free Art & Technology Lab, Artzilla.org, Le Camping Start-Up Accelerator and the Mozilla Foundation (Firefox). He's generally involved in tech start-up and digital art scenes.
Latest projects include FB Resistance and Mozilla Demoparty. His work was exhibited internationally in galleries and on home computers and has been covered by the NY Times, LA Times, Wired, Spiegel, 3Sat or Liberation.
Contact via heSPAMllo@toREMOVEbi-x.com or twitter.com/tbx (And if you really want to - via Facebook or G+)
Twitter | Tumblr | Flickr | Facebook | Google+ | Vimeo | Foursquare | Github | F.A.T. Blog | Mozilla| 1984 | Born in Germany / Baden-Württemberg | |
| 1990 | Got a Gameboy. "Nintendo Generation" | |
| 1995 | First PC (Intel 80286) (Internet, 64k in 1997) | |
| 2001 | Freelance Web Designer | |
| 2002 | Tacoma | High School graduate year (USA) |
| 2003 | Engineer College (Hans Thoma Schule, TG) | |
| 2005 | Abitur (German graduation for Diploma studies) | |
| 2005 | Freiburg | Prisma Productions, Photography, intern |
| 2006 | Stuttgart | Merz Akademie (FH), University of Applied Arts, “New Media” Communication Design Diplom Programm (Graduate School) |
| 2008 | German Student Foundation, scholarship (Deutsche Studienstiftung). Also DAAD scholarship | |
| 2008 | NYC | Eyebeam Art & Technology Research Center, intern |
| 2008 | NYC | Know Your Meme (Rocketboom), intern |
| 2008 | Rotterdam | Piet Zwart Institute Master of Arts (MA) Networked Media Programm, student exchange |
| 2010 | Stuttgart | Merz Akademie (FH) "Diplom Designer (FH)", 1.0 Diploma (Top score) |
| 2010 | Paris | Mozilla (Firefox) Foundation / Community, work |
| 2011 | Berlin / SF | Mozilla (Firefox) Corporation / Community, work |