I’m a computer scientist, software engineer and artist, and work at the Esri R&D Center in Zurich, Switzerland. My main interest is the creative use of computers for graphics, architecture, games, electronic music, live visuals, and digital art. These are some places and stuff that I have been involved in (or still am):

Places・Esri R&D・ETH Zürich・UCSB・NTU・University of Zurich・IRCAM・Uppsala University・FHNW

Research and Teaching・Computer Graphics・Virtual Reality・Game Design・Information Visualization・Urban Design・Digital Art

Engineering・CityEngine・Value Lab Asia・VJ Software (Soundium / Decklight)・Audio DSP・Airline Data Centers・Linux Drivers・Operating System Porting・Atari ST Games and Demos

Digital Art・ETH Zurich Digital Art Weeks・Demo:Polis @ Akademie der Künste Berlin・Apocalypse Project @ IFTF Palo Alto・Fingerprint City @ Ars Electronica・Digital Marionette @ Ars Electronica

DJ/VJ・Zouk Singapore・Corsica Studios London・Shelter Shanghai・Shine Vancouver・Rohstofflager Zürich

For more information, see featured posts below or visit the portfolio section on this site.

Featured Posts

Book: Live Visuals – History, Theory, Practice

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.

CityEngine 3D Building Models of Berlin Mitte

A github project containing a Esri CityEngine model with ground plane, streets, parcels and 3D models of Berlin Mitte (2x2km) based on the open data provided by Berlin’s Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen.

Real-Time Snow Cover Simulation (Computers & Graphics)

This research, published in Computers & Graphics, proposes a real-time multi-scale snow cover approximation and visualization for large terrains. Code for Unreal Engine is available open source!

EPI Redux at EPFL’s Rolex Center

Another edition of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable Redux, this time at the beautiful Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland.

Lego Ableton Push Stand

An Ableton Push desk stand made with Lego.

Enabling DEMO:POLIS

“Enabling DEMO:POLIS” is a participatory urban planning installation, presented as part of the DEMO:POLIS exhibition at Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The installation engages the public in the design of open space through an interactive software application.

The Wild Jewels

The Wild Jewels explore the possibilities of data-driven wearable technology that responds to future environmental scenarios.

Revealing Centrality in the Spatial Structure of Cities from Human Activity Patterns (Urban Studies)

We propose a new quantitative measure for the centrality of locations, taking into account not only the numbers of people attracted to different locations, but also the diversity of the activities they are engaged in.

CityEngine under Consideration for 2015 Academy Awards

Good news: CityEngine is under consideration for the 2015 Academy Awards – the so-called “Tech-Oscars”. Fingers crossed!

Visualizing Mobility of Public Transportation System (TVCG/VAST)

Visualizing Mobility of Public Transportation System. To appear in: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).

Detecting the Dynamics of Urban Structure Through Spatial Network Analysis (IJGIS 2014)

Detecting the Dynamics of Urban Structure Through Spatial Network Analysis. Chen Zhong, Stefan Müller Arisona, Xianfeng Huang, Michael Batty, Gerhard Schmitt. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2014.

New DJ Mix: Poursuite du Bonheur

Recorded live at Casa Arisona, Singapore, August 18 2013. Now available for your listening pleasure at Mixcloud.

LEA Special Issue on Live Visuals

Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) Special Issue on “Live Visuals for Performance, Gaming, Installation, and Electronic Environments”

Multi-Projector-Mapper (MPM): Open-Source 3D Projection Mapping Software Framework

The multi-projector-mapper (MPM) is a software framework for 3D projection mapping using multiple projector. It contains a basic rendering infrastructure, and interactive tools for projector calibration.

Digital Art Weeks Singapore

As we are working hard on the preparations for Digital Art Weeks 2013, which will take place in Singapore in May 2013, our new DAW Facebook page is now online.

robot_mixeur Visuals at ZoukOut (7 & 8 December 2012)

Great news… I will be performing on both nights of this year’s ZoukOut. Sea, beach, massive line-up, and huge LED screens included. So come out to Siloso beach on December 7 and 8, it’s gonna be a hell of a party! http://www.zoukout.com/  

Book: Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation

A book, thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, with the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of the state-of-the-art.

The Value Lab Asia

A collaborative, digitally augmented environment for a wide range of applications, such as participatory urban planning and design, stakeholder communication, information visualisation and discovery, remote teaching and conferencing.

robot_mixeur

…my alter ego when performing as visualist and DJ at clubs and art spaces around the globe.

Featured Posts

Book: Live Visuals – History, Theory, Practice

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.

CityEngine 3D Building Models of Berlin Mitte

A github project containing a Esri CityEngine model with ground plane, streets, parcels and 3D models of Berlin Mitte (2x2km) based on the open data provided by Berlin’s Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen.

Real-Time Snow Cover Simulation (Computers & Graphics)

This research, published in Computers & Graphics, proposes a real-time multi-scale snow cover approximation and visualization for large terrains. Code for Unreal Engine is available open source!

EPI Redux at EPFL’s Rolex Center

Another edition of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable Redux, this time at the beautiful Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland.

Lego Ableton Push Stand

An Ableton Push desk stand made with Lego.

Enabling DEMO:POLIS

“Enabling DEMO:POLIS” is a participatory urban planning installation, presented as part of the DEMO:POLIS exhibition at Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The installation engages the public in the design of open space through an interactive software application.

The Wild Jewels

The Wild Jewels explore the possibilities of data-driven wearable technology that responds to future environmental scenarios.

Revealing Centrality in the Spatial Structure of Cities from Human Activity Patterns (Urban Studies)

We propose a new quantitative measure for the centrality of locations, taking into account not only the numbers of people attracted to different locations, but also the diversity of the activities they are engaged in.

CityEngine under Consideration for 2015 Academy Awards

Good news: CityEngine is under consideration for the 2015 Academy Awards – the so-called “Tech-Oscars”. Fingers crossed!

Visualizing Mobility of Public Transportation System (TVCG/VAST)

Visualizing Mobility of Public Transportation System. To appear in: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).

Detecting the Dynamics of Urban Structure Through Spatial Network Analysis (IJGIS 2014)

Detecting the Dynamics of Urban Structure Through Spatial Network Analysis. Chen Zhong, Stefan Müller Arisona, Xianfeng Huang, Michael Batty, Gerhard Schmitt. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2014.

New DJ Mix: Poursuite du Bonheur

Recorded live at Casa Arisona, Singapore, August 18 2013. Now available for your listening pleasure at Mixcloud.

LEA Special Issue on Live Visuals

Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) Special Issue on “Live Visuals for Performance, Gaming, Installation, and Electronic Environments”

Multi-Projector-Mapper (MPM): Open-Source 3D Projection Mapping Software Framework

The multi-projector-mapper (MPM) is a software framework for 3D projection mapping using multiple projector. It contains a basic rendering infrastructure, and interactive tools for projector calibration.

Digital Art Weeks Singapore

As we are working hard on the preparations for Digital Art Weeks 2013, which will take place in Singapore in May 2013, our new DAW Facebook page is now online.

robot_mixeur Visuals at ZoukOut (7 & 8 December 2012)

Great news… I will be performing on both nights of this year’s ZoukOut. Sea, beach, massive line-up, and huge LED screens included. So come out to Siloso beach on December 7 and 8, it’s gonna be a hell of a party! http://www.zoukout.com/  

Book: Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation

A book, thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, with the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of the state-of-the-art.

The Value Lab Asia

A collaborative, digitally augmented environment for a wide range of applications, such as participatory urban planning and design, stakeholder communication, information visualisation and discovery, remote teaching and conferencing.

robot_mixeur

…my alter ego when performing as visualist and DJ at clubs and art spaces around the globe.

Featured Posts

Book: Live Visuals – History, Theory, Practice

This volume surveys the key histories, theories and practice of artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, architects and technologists that have worked and continue to work with visual material in real time.

CityEngine 3D Building Models of Berlin Mitte

A github project containing a Esri CityEngine model with ground plane, streets, parcels and 3D models of Berlin Mitte (2x2km) based on the open data provided by Berlin’s Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen.

Real-Time Snow Cover Simulation (Computers & Graphics)

This research, published in Computers & Graphics, proposes a real-time multi-scale snow cover approximation and visualization for large terrains. Code for Unreal Engine is available open source!

EPI Redux at EPFL’s Rolex Center

Another edition of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable Redux, this time at the beautiful Rolex Learning Center at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland.

Lego Ableton Push Stand

An Ableton Push desk stand made with Lego.

Enabling DEMO:POLIS

“Enabling DEMO:POLIS” is a participatory urban planning installation, presented as part of the DEMO:POLIS exhibition at Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The installation engages the public in the design of open space through an interactive software application.

The Wild Jewels

The Wild Jewels explore the possibilities of data-driven wearable technology that responds to future environmental scenarios.

Revealing Centrality in the Spatial Structure of Cities from Human Activity Patterns (Urban Studies)

We propose a new quantitative measure for the centrality of locations, taking into account not only the numbers of people attracted to different locations, but also the diversity of the activities they are engaged in.

CityEngine under Consideration for 2015 Academy Awards

Good news: CityEngine is under consideration for the 2015 Academy Awards – the so-called “Tech-Oscars”. Fingers crossed!

Visualizing Mobility of Public Transportation System (TVCG/VAST)

Visualizing Mobility of Public Transportation System. To appear in: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG).

Detecting the Dynamics of Urban Structure Through Spatial Network Analysis (IJGIS 2014)

Detecting the Dynamics of Urban Structure Through Spatial Network Analysis. Chen Zhong, Stefan Müller Arisona, Xianfeng Huang, Michael Batty, Gerhard Schmitt. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2014.

New DJ Mix: Poursuite du Bonheur

Recorded live at Casa Arisona, Singapore, August 18 2013. Now available for your listening pleasure at Mixcloud.

LEA Special Issue on Live Visuals

Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA) Special Issue on “Live Visuals for Performance, Gaming, Installation, and Electronic Environments”

Multi-Projector-Mapper (MPM): Open-Source 3D Projection Mapping Software Framework

The multi-projector-mapper (MPM) is a software framework for 3D projection mapping using multiple projector. It contains a basic rendering infrastructure, and interactive tools for projector calibration.

Digital Art Weeks Singapore

As we are working hard on the preparations for Digital Art Weeks 2013, which will take place in Singapore in May 2013, our new DAW Facebook page is now online.

robot_mixeur Visuals at ZoukOut (7 & 8 December 2012)

Great news… I will be performing on both nights of this year’s ZoukOut. Sea, beach, massive line-up, and huge LED screens included. So come out to Siloso beach on December 7 and 8, it’s gonna be a hell of a party! http://www.zoukout.com/  

Book: Digital Urban Modeling and Simulation

A book, thematically positioned at the intersections of Urban Design, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Computer Science, with the goal to provide specialists coming from respective fields a multi-angle overview of the state-of-the-art.

The Value Lab Asia

A collaborative, digitally augmented environment for a wide range of applications, such as participatory urban planning and design, stakeholder communication, information visualisation and discovery, remote teaching and conferencing.

robot_mixeur

…my alter ego when performing as visualist and DJ at clubs and art spaces around the globe.