Hans-Christoph Steiner

Fusing three disciplines, Hans-Christoph Steiner spends his time composing music with computers, building networks with free software, and working on interactive art. With an emphasis on collaboration, he has worked in many forms, including responsive sound environments, free, wireless networks that help build community, musical robots that listen, and interactive sculpture using homemade jets. His solo work has been performed at Tonic New York, inside the Croton Aqueduct, and inside the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel. Group projects that he has collaborated on have been exhibited at Lille2004 European Cultural Capitol Festival, Robodock, Wood Street Gallery, Joyce SOHO, and Scope Art Fair. He has given talks at ITP/NYU, LocationOne, Tama Art University, Geidai Tokyo National University, and dorkbot-nyc, presenting a range of topics from art projects to music programming to intellectual property. His work has been covered by the New York Times, Wired News, New York Press. Steiner received his Masters from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is currently working on developing full-fledged visual programming platform and free, open-source media arts curricula and teachers' guides.