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Dennis PAUL
is a Gestalter, has two son, lives in Berlin and works in his design practice The Product. In his work he investigates the relation between people and technology. In recent years he was engaged in installations in public space, physical interfaces and generative systems. He specifically likes to explore the playful and narratives qualities of responsive media. He strongly believes that technology must be a warm and emotional medium. His work has been exhibited internationally and received several awards.

He was born in Bremen, Germany. He started studying typographie in 1998 at the ‘Fachhochschule Hannover’, Germany, went to Berlin in 2000 to study ‘Visuelle Kommunikation’ at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the Digitale Klasse with professor Joachim Sauter and graduated in 2003. He was working at ART+COM from 2003 to 2008 and was teaching design at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the Digitale Klasse.

Selected Awards

2006	…	‘The Science of Aliens’
		iF communication design award, Gold
		reddot design award
		Art Directors Club von Deutschland, Bronze
		Deutscher Multimedia Award, Shortlist
	…	’documenta mobil’
		Deutscher Multimedia Award
		Art Directors Club von Deutschland, Bronze
		Annual Multimedia Wettbewerb
2005		iF communication design award
	…	‘O2 Flagship Store’
		red dot design award
		iF communication design award
	…	‘Der BMW 1er – Technische Kommunikation’
		Deutscher Multimedia Award
	…	‘Floating.Numbers’
		Art Directors Club von Deutschland, Silber
2004		reddot design award
		iF communication design award, Gold
2002	…	’Coexistence’
		winner of the ‘Coexistence’ poster award
2001	…	’ME2’
		second place at browserday

Selected Exhibitions

2006	…	’Heimat und Exil’
		Exhibition with Art+Com at the Jüdischen Museum Berlin, Germany
	…	’The Settlement Exhibition’
		Permanent Exhibition with Art+Com at City Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
	…	‘The Science of Aliens’
		Exhibition with Art+Com at Thinktank, Birmingham, UK
		Exhibition with Art+Com at Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France
		Exhibition with Art+Com at Museum of Science, Miami, USA
2005		Exhibition with Art+Com at the Science Museum, London, UK
	…	‘Das neue Österreich’
		Exhibition with Art+Com in the Castle Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
2004	…	‘Simthing’
		Exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
		Exhibition at DorkBot, Berlin, Germany
	…	‘Floating.Numbers’
		Exhibition with Art+Com at the National Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
		Exhibition with Art+Com at the Jüdischen Museum Berlin, Germany
2003	…	’Segelanweisung’
		Exhibition with Art+Com at the Technik Museum Berlin, Germany

Selected Projects

2006	…	’Heimat und Exil’
		commissioned work for the ‘Jüdische Museum’, Berlin with Art+Com
2005	…	‘The Science of Aliens’
		commissioned work for ‘The Science Museum’, London with Art+Com
	…	’documenta mobil’
		commissioned work for the city of Kassel with Art+Com
2004	…	‘Floating.Numbers’
		commissioned work for the ‘Jüdische Museum’, Berlin with Art+Com
2003	…	‘Die Segelanweisung’
		commissioned work for the ‘Deutsches Technikmuseum’, Berlin with Art+Com
	…	‘Simthing’
		diploma at ‘Universität der Künste Berlin’
	…	‘sunder-plassmann.de’
		commissioned work for a Photographer in Berlin
2002	…	‘A Grand Day Out’
		student project at ‘Universität der Künste Berlin’
	…	’coexistence’
		submissioned work
	…	’Denz.cc’
		commissioned work for a Photographer in Hamburg
2001	…	’edacentrum’
		commissioned work for the EDAcentrum eV, Hannover
	…	‘IMS’
		intermediate diploma at ‘FH Hannover’

Selected Lectures

2007	…	’Well Behaved Interactive Media’
		at Innovationsforum Interactionsdesign, Potsdam, Germany
2006	…	’Aesthetics of Mapping’
		at Universität Heidelberg, Germany
	…	’Playfulness in Interactive Media’
		at Achtung Berlin Festival, Berlin, Germany
2005	…	’Applied Computational Design’
		for Art+Com at Generator X Conference, Oslo, Norway

Selected Workshops

2007	…	‘Input, Output and Things in Between’
		at HfG Karlsruhe, Germany
2006	…	‘Input, Output and Things in Between’
		at UNSW College of Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia
2005	…	’network workshop’
		at ‘Universität der Künste Berlin’
	…	’Tools for Computational Design’
		at FH Potsdam, Germany

Teaching

2004	—
2007	…	teaching at ‘Universität der Künste Berlin’ in the ‘Digital Media Class’