Prof. Andreas Muxel (AT/DE)

In his work Andreas Muxel is always looking for a poetical and engaging way of interaction with things, regardless of whether they are hardware or software. He creates artifacts and spaces for all senses blurring the boundaries between the physical and the non-physical, the rational and irrational.

His projects have been shown internationally (i.a. Ars Electronica Festival Linz, FILE Festival São Paulo, TodaysArt Festival Brussels) and awarded (i.a. Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica, VIDA Award, Share Prize). In 2015 he co-founded NEOANALOG, studio for hybrid things and spaces. From 2013 to 2017 he was Professor for Interface / Interaction Design at the Köln International School of Design, University of Applied Sciences Cologne. Since 2017 he is Professor for Physical Human-Machine Interfaces at the Faculty of Design at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences where he founded and directs the Hybrid Things Lab.

Contact

Andreas Muxel

Siegfried-Aufhäuser-Strasse 17

D-86157 Augsburg

Germany

info AT andreasmuxel DOT com

Publications

Naphausen, E., Muxel, A., & Willmann, J. (2023). New Design Potentials of Non-mimetic Sonification in Human-Robot Interaction. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3611646

Scherffig, L., Muxel, A., Faubel, C., & Popplow, L. (2021). Training to deal with Otherness–rehearsing & maintaining human-machine relations. Proceedings of Polititcs of the machines-Rogue Research 2021 3, 359-364. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/POM2021.48

Rossmy, B., Völkel, S. T., Naphausen, E., Kimm, P., Wiethoff, A., & Muxel, A. (2020, July). Punishable AI: Examining Users' Attitude Towards Robot Punishment. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 179-191). https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395542

Muxel, A., & Naphausen, E. (2020). ROBODADA: speed-dating with (un)friendly robots. In Proceedings of the First Conference on Design with Artificial Intelligence (pp. 112-127). Berlin, Germany.

Muxel, A. (2016). Der Aufstand der Dinge. Judith Dörrenbächer/Kerstin Plüm (Hg.), Beseelte Dinge. sDesign aus Perspektive des Animismus, Bielefeld: transcript, 51-69. https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839435588-003

Innella, G., Rodgers, P. A., Higuchi, T., Muxel, A., & Paskevicius, A. (2016). The benefits of prototyping early in design workshops: Report and insights from an international collaborative workshop between Chiba University and Köln International School of Design, supported by Fujitsu. Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, 63(4), 4_21-4_28. https://doi.org/10.11247/jssdj.63.4_21

Muxel, A., Nawrath, M., Scherffig, L., Trogemann, G. (2010). Experimente. In: Trogemann, G. (eds) Code und Material Exkursionen ins Undingliche. Springer, Vienna.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0121-6_2

Muxel, A., Harasser, K., (2010). Connect. In: Trogemann, G. (eds) Code und Material Exkursionen ins Undingliche. Springer, Vienna.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0121-6_11

Andreas Muxel: Analoge Programme, in: Off Topic, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (Ed.), Verlag der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Köln, 2009, 16ff.

Andreas Muxel: Connect – feedback-driven sculpture, in: CyberArts 2009, International Compendium – Prix Ars Electronica 2009, Schöpf, Stocker, Leopoldseder (Eds.), Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2009, 162–163

Wolfgang Strauss, Monika Fleischmann, Andreas Muxel, Jochen Denzinger, Ansgar Himmel: Matrix-Lupe. Design-Präsentation: Navigation und Visualisierung, in: Proceedings Mensch und Computer 2006, 3. – 6. September 2006, Gelsenkirchen, 2006

Exhibitions

2008

Augsburger Kunstlabor lab30, Augsburg
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
Hybridspace goes Tschumi, Groningen
Altitude 08, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
Venez vivre une journée en 2017, Paris

2007

Altitude 07, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
Yahoo! Design Expo, Sunnyvale
Talking Cities Radio Audio Lounge, Hamburg SAM, Architektur Museum, Basel

2006

ENTRY 2006, Zeche Zollverein, Essen
Altitude 06, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
Expedition Informatik, Haus der Wissenschaft, Bremen
Kunst Computer Werke, ZKM, Karlsruhe

2005

walk in 05, Galerie-Aedes, Berlin
AustriArchitektur, v-a-i, Dornbirn
AustriArchitektur, Zumtobel Staff Lichtforum, Vienna
Cubo de Luz Festival, Granada

2004

Energie_Passagen, Munich

Awards

2015

Winner INTERNATIONAL LIGHT ART AWARD together with Martin Hesselmeier, Unna.

2011

Honorary Mention Action Sharing, Turin.

2010

Designpreis Rheinland-Pfalz (support hive team)

Nominated FILE PRIX LUX, Sao Paulo

Second Prize VIDA 12.0 Award, Madrid

2009

Winner Share Price, Share Festival, Turin

Honorary Mention, Category "Interactive Art",

Prix Ars Electronica, Linz

2008

Winner Kölner Design Preis

2007

Best Experience Design Award, Yahoo! Design Expo together with Charlotte Krauss and Ludwig Zeller

2005

if communcation design award as a team member of the MARS-Exploratory Media Lab

Architecture Award poolbar 05, poolbar Festival as a group member of bricolage

Talks

2023

"Robotic Things: Prototyping Otherness", IxDA Education Summit, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

Keynote "Robotic Things: Prototyping Otherness", IAIRE (Applied Integrated Research) World Conference 2023, Windland Art & Design Academy, Shanghai

"Robotische Dinge", OpenIdea_80, Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences

2022

After Work. Let’s Talk About Art…, Museum Brandhorst, Future Bodies

"I’m not a …", Hidden Layers, Köln International School of Design, TH Köln

"Mensch-Maschine-Verbindungen. Werden kluge Maschinen ein Teil von uns?", AI ring lecture, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg

"Das andere Wir: eine neue Mensch-Maschine-Beziehung?", BayernLab Dillingen

2021

"Das andere Wir: eine neue Mensch-Maschine-Beziehung?", HSA_transfer, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg

"Programme entwerfen", Licht als künstlerisches Material, HBKsaar

"Das andere Wir: eine neue Mensch-Maschine-Kultur?", Die Welt der Gestaltung als Wille und Vorstellung, HBKsaar

Keynote "UN)FRIENDLY ROBOTS", aiXdesign.space, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

2020

Keynote "AUTOMATA: Non-trivial Interactions with Trivial Machines", Verbraucherinformatik, University of Siegen

"AUTOMATA", Everything is Design, Westfälische Hochschule, Gelsenkirchen

Keynote "ROBOTHER: Non-trival Interactions with Trivial Machines", Workshop Otherware needs Otherness: Understanding and Designing Artificial Counterparts, NordiCHI '20, Tallinn

"ROBODADA speed-dating with (un)friendly robots", dai conference on designing with artificial intelligence, Berlin

2019

"Im Dialog zwischen Mensch und Maschine", Adaptivität als Utopie IV, ILEK, University of Stuttgart

"Prototyping the Unknown", Digital Encounters, Munich

"Prototyping Futures", HSA_transfer Forum: Social Impact, Augsburg

Keynote "Let's get Physical", Erfinderworkshop German Informatics Society Workgroup on Tangible Interaction, University of Regensburg

"Prototyping Futures", 8. Augsburger Technologietransfer-Kongress, Augsburg

Artist Talk "the weight of light" , TU Berlin

2018

"The Gigantomachia of Men and Machine or The Birth of Techno-Theology from the Spirit of Political Theology", Politics of the Machines EVA-Copenhagen

"Mensch & Machine", #AUXHACK Hackathon 18

"Let's get Physical", Mediendesign Ravensburg

"Frictional Things", Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst Hildesheim

2017

"Hybrid Things", Hochschule Rhein-Waal

2016

"Make and Think", INSIGHT.INTERACTION.DESIGN., Bremen

"(R)evolution of Things", .process, Dortmund

2015

"the weight of light", Lichtforum NRW, Unna

"Hybrid Things", World Usability Day, Frankfurt

"Der Aufstand der Dinge", Symposium "Beseelte Dinge", Hochschule Niederrhein

2014

"Funktion & Interaktion", Innovationsworkshop Siedle, Furtwangen

"The proof is in the pudding", Creative Mornings, Köln

"New Ecology of Things", Hochschule Rhein-Waal

2013

»Permanent Beta«, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

"Code und Klang", FH Düsseldorf

"Vom Experiment bis zur Idee" at kreatifrühstück, Denkwerk, Cologne.
"Think and Make" at design.digital 3, Würzburg.

2012

"Transformations - from input to output and between" at the Cologne Game Lab, Cologne

2011

"From Zero to Hero" at ifs internationale filmschule köln, Cologne

2010

"Digital ist besser?", ifs internationale filmschule köln, Cologne

"Lets get Physical", Köln International School of Design, Cologne

"From the Experiment to the Idea to the Experiment", Lexus Hybrid Art, Moscow

"Making Things", Köln International School of Design, Cologne

2009

"Connect", SHARE TECH Conference, Turin "Unheard Noise", FILE Symposium, Sao Paulo

2008

"Analog Programs", Linux Audio Conference, Cologne

2007

"CubeBrowser", Yahoo! Design Expo, Sunnyvale "Physical Computing", Uniplan, Cologne