Julean A. Simon (Aut, lives in Berlin)
Education
1976-79 Masterclass for Scupturing, Graz, Prof.  Pillhofer
1978-85 Architecture Program, Technical University, Graz
1983-89 Philosophy and Art History Program, University of Graz
1989-91 Research Affiliate at "Center for Advanced Visual Studies", MIT,Cambridge/USA (analysis of DNA-sequences by means of specialized neural networks, pattern-generating behavior of the modulo-operator, visualization of the learning process of neural networks)
 
Art Work
1979-89

Saxophonist and composer, New Jazz, Neue Musik
ensembles: Neigbours, Entart Ensemble, Creative Music Trio Graz, duo with Walter Muhamad Malli, trio with Conny Bauer/Baby Sommer, etc.
radio recordings, invitations to international jazz festivals (Nickelsdorf, Maribor, Laibach,..)
CD with Haimo Puschnigg (p): "symptoma/tology"  (LC6185  GE025)

1984-88

Art-Videos and Computer-Installations
Awards: Austrian Ministry Award for Video Art, International Biennial Ljubljana, Kodak/Eastman Video Award, Austrian Film Festival, No-Budget-Festival Hamburg, Styrian Award for Contemp. Art, etc.
Festival-invitations: Arnhem, Berlin, Hamburg, Ljubljana, Luzern, Ontario, Osnabrueck, Zuerich, etc.

2000-

Plays a midi-wind-controller solo and in several ensembles, sound programming esp. physical modelling synthesis, developing a prototype wind-controler "wax". Many CD- and DVD-projects (see uea-io.de/simon). 2005 the CD [polimer]isation has been published at konnex records, Berlin.
Festivals: v:nm-festival 2003, Musikprotokoll/Steir. Herbst 2004, Tage fuer zeitgenoessische Musik Weimar 2005, NMI'06-Berlin, ARCO'06 Madrid, Takeaway06 London, etc.
See: http://uea-io.de/wax

 
Concept Work and Project management in IT-projects
1994-96 "Comenius" commissioned by DeTeBerkom/Telekom Germany, in coop. with D.Wohlhart for Ponton GbR Hamburg: Concept-development and specification of an environment for collaborative learning and working within an educational broadband network (still in use in 6 Berlin schools).
1995-97

concept-work for Van Gogh TeleVision, Hamburg:
"NGC-NewGenerationConferencing" for Frankfurt Balkind/Gartner Group
"Worlds Within", Official Project of the Cultural Olympiad Atlanta '96.
GUI-concept for German Telecom "VirtualCafe", 1997.
Concept and Projektdefinition "Virtuelles Museum", 1998

1996-97 "DisNet" - idea/specification of a net-based, collaborative environment with D.Wohlhart. Papers have been selected and invited for presentation at conferences (EdMedia96 Boston, AAIM96 Charleston, WebNet96 San Francisco, UCIS96 Poitiers, ISEA96 Rotterdam, StateUniversity NY, CHANT96  Washington DC, ICDE97 Pennsylvania State Uni, etc.).
1997-98 "CyberCity Berlin" for DeTeBerkom/Telekom Germany ( commissioned by echtzeit GmbH, Berlin): techn. concept in coop. with P. Ackermann Perspectix/Zuerich and project management. Development of a 3D-city-information-system on the basis of standard Internet-technology. The core application architecture supports the dynamic aggregation of function modules by way of a message-passing mechanism.
1997-01 Senior projectmanager & concept work for echtzeit AG, R&D-head
2000-01 "onRadio", research project of the European Community (project management for echtzeit AG). Development of innovative interface-metaphors for accessing audio-archives.  Idea & interface-concept for "DJ_stub / DJ_Nova" (for Radio Nova, Paris/France) "Katie"  (interactive conversational character for event-broadcasting, Flash application) and "TalkingPoets" (dynamic QT-streaming of literature readings) for Altus Analytics, RadioCity (coop SFB), Ogham (Shockwave3D application for RTE Irish Broadcasting)
2003 "RadioCity Berlin", Projectmanagement and Concept for Sender Freies Berlin
2004 Concept-development of an authoring- and communication-system for "Bundeszentrale fuer Politische Bildung"/Berlin
2005-06 Concept-development of "QuAn" - collaborative working-environment for qualitative analysis / social research (for Fa. Wohlhart)
2007 "practiceTime" - suite of programs to support music-students in practicing. Research, concept and programming (MAX/MSP)
Teaching
1990-91 Computer supported Geometry-Course at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston/USA; Architecture/Design Department.
1992-93 "Computer Science for Artists" at Hochschule der Kuenste in Berlin, Abt. Visuelle Kommunikation.
1999-2000 Guest professor at the "Universitaet fuer Kuenstlerische und Industrielle Gestaltung" in Linz/Austria, Masterclass for Experimental Visual Design seminar:  "Media Integrative Knowledge Representation"
2009 Uni Potsdam: Interaction Processing (IxP)
   
Papers and Lectures

see: http://uea-io.de/writings