Wir konnten für TEDxKreuzberg eine Reihe sehr spannender Sprecherinnen und Sprecher gewinnen. Nachfolgend werden sie kurz vorgestellt. (Die Liste wird noch vervollständigt.)

We are very glad we could win a number of excellent speakers for TEDxKreuzberg. Below you can find a brief overview. (The list will be complete within the next couple of days. Thanks for your patience.)

Dr. Stephan Baumann

Dr. Stephan Baumann, promovierter Musik- und KI-Forscher, arbeitet in Berlin und Kaiserslautern und leitet das Competence Center Computational Culture (C4) am Deutschen Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI). Er war Mitgründer der Hard Blogging Scientists und engagiert sich europaweit für einen offenen Austausch zwischen Startups, Web2.0 Aktivisten und Ph.D-Studenten.
Neben anwendungsorientierten Projekten im Bereich von Social Media/Social Networks arbeitet er an der Schnittstelle zwischen Art und Science im Umfeld Sonic Interaction Design in Kooperation mit anderen europäischen Kreativen. Seine aktuellen Forschungsinteressen umfassen die Felder Digital Identity, Social Network Analysis und Visualisierung, Emotionale Musikempfehlungssysteme (OPENEER) und Reality Mining Anwendungen (UrbanSync). Berlin, Paris, Porto, London, urbanes Leben und Input maximal: Er sagt von sich selbst “I’m super nomadic! Save rocket science!”

Dr. Stephan Baumann is a researcher in the field of music and artificial intelligence. He works in Berlin and Kaiserslautern and is head of the Competence Center Computational Culture (C4) at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He is a co-founder of Hard Blogging Scientists and engages in the open European exchange between startups, Web 2.0, activists and PhD students.
Besides hands-on projects in Social Media / Social Networks, he works on the interface between art and science in the field of Sonic Interaction Design, often in cooperation with other European creatives. His current research interests include digital identity, social network analysis and visualization, emotional music recommendation systems (OPENEER) and reality mining applications (UrbanSync). Berlin, Paris, Porto, London, urban life and the maximum input: He says about himself “I’m super nomadic! Save rocket science!”.

Einige Projekte werden hier vorgestellt. (For some projects in German please click here.)

Jodi Rose

Meet Jodi Rose, self-acclaimed International Bridge Diva and initiator of the beautiful Singing Bridges project.

Jodi Rose has traveled the world since 2002, creating Singing Bridges, a conceptual sound work using the cables of bridges as musical instruments on a global scale. Recording the vibrations in the cables with contact microphones, editing and composing the sounds to create experimental music, performances, and installations has taken Jodi to festivals and events across Europe and Australia. She has dangled from the top of a crane in Bangkok to listen to the cables being ‘tuned,’ sampled cocktails in the bar of the UFO Bridge in Bratislava, been guardian of a bridge over the Danube, and traversed the globe from Helsinki to the Mekong Delta in her endless quest for bridge music. Jodi is working with engineers, architects, software developers and musicians to link the sounds of bridges around the world in the ultimate live networked ‘Global Bridge Symphony’, and writing a memoir of this quixotic philosophical journey from on her award winning Travel Diary.

Read more about Jodi here.

Jakob Tigges

Jakob Tigges is the mind behind The Berg, a creative concept for using the now closed Airport Berlin Tempelhof. As the The Berg Manifesto states:

While big and wealthy cities in many parts of the world challenge the limits of possibility by building gigantic hotels with fancy shapes, erecting sky-high office towers or constructing hovering philharmonic temples, Berlin sets up a decent mountain. Its peak exceeds 1000 metres and is covered with snow from September to March…

Jakob will be presenting in English. To read the rest of the manifest, see some pictures of The Berg and learn more about Jakob’s background, please click here.

Hans Jakob Raffauf

Hans Jakob Raffauf is one of the folks running Palomar5, a recent innovation camp in Berlin. At Palomar5 it was all about discovering and exploring new working environments, and so 28 residents from all over the world spend six weeks in one location, practically shut off from the surrounding city. It was a chance for both collaboration as well as self-expression.

When he’s not innovating at Palomar5, Hans is involved in many projects, reaching from culture, art, fashion to supporting education in Africa. At TEDxKreuzberg, Hans will talk about the story, the experience and the results of Palomar5.

Torsten Posselt

Torsten Posselt presents Local Distance:
Countless fragments of existing architectural photography are merged into multilayered shapes. The resulting collages introduce a third abstract point of view next to the original ones of architect and photographer.

The recompositions mix and match the views and perspectives of both the architect and the photographer with a third, newly chosen frame. The resulting fine-art prints are entirely unique each time.

What does all that look like in the end? Something like this.

It’s pretty awesome.

Mr Green

Mr Green are hard to explain. Imagine a flashmob with morals. Imagine something like this:

All the way from Denmark for TEDxKreuzberg: Mr Green.