For thirty years, Austrian born Oswald Berthold has been making unique contributions in the sphere of art & technology. He is a founder of farmersmanual (1995), a renowned pan-european electronic disturbance conglomerate; co-owner with Florian Hecker of fals.ch (1998), a pioneering online music label, and the musical artists cd_slopper (1999). In 2001 Berthold received an honorary mention in digital musics at the Ars Electronica festival with the project "pxp".
Working increasingly on real-time data-driven generative music in the early 2000s he started specializing in AI and robotics, and went on to earn an MSc. in computer science (2012) and a Ph.D in developmental robotics (2020), both from Humboldt-University of Berlin. As a post-doc project he co-founded the Berlin-based robotics startup Jetpack Cognition Lab in 2019 with fellow roboticist Matthias Kubisch, where they invented and started marketing "flatcat", a one-of-a-kind bio-inspired AI-pet robot for private users (your next robot is a pet).
He is currently a senior research scientist at AIMS API, a company providing AI based music search services to business customers. He keeps making and publishing music digitally and occasionally posts small text pieces on the internet.
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Date
03.05.24, 3 pm – 5 pm
Room 207, Nordbau, Direct Media [ Sound ]
Menzelstraße 13–15
34121 Kassel