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Press Selection (All personal)

2013

'F.A.T. GOLD': five years of internet thug life and hijacked pop culture
The Verge 04/2013
[TV] Beitrag in der Sendung "Pixelmacher"
3 Sat / ZDF Kultur 04/2013

2012

[Interview] "Anonymität ist Freiheit und unser grundgegebenes Recht"
Basler Zeitung, Newspaper 10/02/2012
[TV] "Wir sind das Netz!"
ARTE Docu "Rebel Yell" Pt.1 08/11/2012
"The Art Geeks – Facebook ID"
Business Punk Magazine 05/24/2012
"Prepare For The Death Of Anonymity With Your Very Own Facebook Identity Card"
FORBES 07/10/2012
[Video] "Facebook killed the identity card? Tobias Leingruber and his artistic vision"
ARTE Creative "The Art Geeks" 03/23/2012
Portrait: "Das Internet gehört uns allen"
NEON Magazine (Stern) 03/2012
"Facebook Bullies Artist into Shuttering Satire of FB Privacy Policy"
FastCompany (Co.Design) 03/08/2012
"Artist Explores Online Privacy And Identity With Facebook ID Cards"
VICE Magazine, The Creators Project 03/06/2012
"Your Facebook ID, please, sir"
METRO Newspaper Netherlands 06/03/2012
[Radio] "Einwohnermeldeamt 2.0 - Medienkünstler [..] inszeniert Facebook-Amt"
Deutschland Radio 03/03/2012
"Unterwegs mit dem Facebook Ausweis"
ZDF Blog 03/02/2012
"Idea of National Facebook ID Card Floated"
NBC Los Angeles, Bay Area + San Diego 03/01/2012
"Die echte Facebookfalle und wie wir wieder herauskommen" [German]
CTRL-Verlust, Blog of digital philosopher @mspro 02/28/2012
"Next Time You Get Carded Try Using a Real Life Facebook ID"
Artinfo.com 02/27/2012
"Facebook Identification Cards Are Beeing Tested In Germany"
Buzz Feed 02/28/2012
"Jetzt kommt der 'Facebook-Perso' - Kunstaktion gegen Datensammelwut"
BILD.de 02/28/2012
"Get Your Own Facebook, Google+ ID Card"
ZDnet 02/28/2012
"Facebook ID Card: FB Bureau to Take Social Network Mobile"
International Business Times 02/27/2012
"Get Your Facebook ID Card"
Canada.com 02/27/2012
"This Guy is Getting a Jump on the Future by Creating his Own Facebook ID Cards"
The Next Web 02/27/2012

2011

[Radio] "Occupy The Internet" [German]
Deutschland Radio, Breitband 10/21/2011
"USB Dead Drop Installed in Abandoned NSA Spy Station in Berlin"
Laughing Squid 09/21/2011
"Check Out The Winners Of Mozilla's Demo Party Contest"
VICEs' The Creators Project 09/02/2011
[Video] Le Folklore Du Web - Talk by Tobias Leingruber
Gaite de Lyrique, Paris 08/2011
"Take charge of Facebook"
The Wall Street Journals' Livemint.com, India 05/24/2011
"Net Cracker" - TimeOUT Bangalore, Interview, Marc Stumpel + Tobias Leingruber
TimeOUT Bangalore, India 04/19/2011
"Transmediale Results from the Facebook Resistance Workshop"
Blogger Anne Helmond 02/19/2011
FB Resistance Berlin - Review by Taina Bucher
Blogger Taina Buchner 02/17/2011
"Gefällt mir nicht" [German]
Der Tagesspiegel (Newspaper) 02/13/2011
"Hack Your FB Profile and Join the Resistance"
VICE Magazines' Motherboard.tv 02/08/2011
"In Uniform gegen den Einheitslook" [German]
TAZ.de (Newspaper) 02/07/2011
[TV] "RBB/ARD 'Stilbruch' - Video Portrait T. Leingruber, FB Resistance" [German]
RBB/ARD, Stilbruch (TV Portrait) 02/03/2011
[Radio] "FB Resistance auf Transmediale Festival" [German]
WDR Radio, Funkhaus Europa, Süpermecardo 02/02/2011
"The Facebook Resistance Is Afoot!"
Animal New York Blog 10/17/2011
[Radio] "Facebook Resistance Artist" [German]
Radio Fritz RBB (Interview) 01/29/2011
"Red social, la resistencia"
Clarin, Interview, Argentinian Newspaper (Spanish, Engl translation here*) 01/13/2011 * http://www.tobi-x.com/interview-facebook-profile-ikea-shelf%0A

2010

[Essay] “Skate the Web” and Other Metaphors
ART LIES, Contemporary Art Journal (print) 2010
"How-to Make a Firefox Necklace"
Laughing Squid 09/20/2010
"Turn Your Browser Into An Art Gallery"
VICEs' The Creators Project 09/15/2010
"Firefox Add Ons für Entwickler" [German]
PAGE/WEAVE Magazine 9/2010
[Radio] TBX @ Pirate Cat Radio San Francisco
Pirate Cat Radio 04/2010
"Turns out the Google Street View car tagged with a GPS sensor thing was a hoax"
TechCrunch 02/10/2010
"Pranksters Attach GPS Device To Google Street View Car"
Forbes 02/07/2010
"Google Street View camera car tagged with GPS sensor, stalked around Berlin"
TechCrunch 02/06/2010
[TV] "Kinder des Netzes - Die Welt der 'Digital Natives'"
3sat TV, Kulturzeit 01/28/2010
"Available Online For Free"
Hypermedia, "Contemporary Media Art Column" 01/20/2010

2009

"Digital Folklore Reader" Contributeur (Editors: Lialina & Espenschied)
Publisher: Merz & Solitude 12/2009
"Es werde Kunst!"
Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Germany 11/13/2009
"What Could Possible Go Wrong on a Skatekeyboard?"
Gizmodo.com 10/19/2009
“Younger than Jesus” Artist directory
Publication of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC 2009
“Firefox Add-Ons Double as Art, Pranks and Fun”
New York Times Technology Blog 02/12/2009
“Firefox Art”
Flash Art Magazine 274, Italy 02/08/2009

2008

“Artzilla is live!”
Rhizome at the New Museum, NYC 12/22/2008
"Amazon.com Add-On Hack Was a University Project"
Wired Threat Level Blog 12/05/2008
“Pirates of the Amazon Abandon Ship”
New York Times Technology Blog 12/05/2008
“Amazon.com Tossed Into Pirate Bay Jungle”
Wired Threat Level Blog 12/04/2008
“Surfen wie in China”
Spiegel Online, Germany 10/30/2008
“Explore the Web from China–without leaving home”
Cnet // download.com 10/29/2008
“Just try surfing the Web in China. Seriously, here’s how”
Los Angeles Times Blog 10/28/2008
[Video] Portrait at Eyebeam in NYC
Bayrischer Rundfunk, Video Portrait 05/19/2008
“Hoebot and Lovebot invade the german facebook”
Rhizome.org at the New Museum, NYC 03/15/2008

2007

“For me Firefox is a new kind of operating system”
Digital Tools Blog, Interview 11/2007
“German Facebook: Students expose security/privacy issues”
Badische Zeitung, Germany 06/29/2007
“Surfing Like it’s 1996″
Blog of Joachim Stein, Art Curator 09/12/2007

Apperance in ARTE TV "Rebel Yell" Docu, 2012

Video Portrait 2012 (by ARTE creative, english subtitles)

Video Kitsch Digital Show, Barcelona Televisió 2011

Video Portrait RBB (ARD) 2011

Video for Mozilla Community 2011

Video Portrait On3Radio (Bayrischer Rundfunk) 2008

Video FM4 Ars Electronica 2007