Addie Wagenknecht

Addie Wagenknecht (born 1981) is an American artist and researcher living in New York City and Liechtenstein.

Her work deals primarily with pop culture, feminist theory, new media and open source software and hardware.

She frequently works in collectives, which have included Nortd Labs, F.A.T. lab, and Deep Lab.

She has received fellowships and residencies from Eyebeam, Mozilla, The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and CERN.

Addie Wagenknecht was born in Portland, Oregon in 1981.

In the performance, they read every name and non-name of the women, children, and men who died attempting to claim asylum in Europe since the early 1990s, which at the time of the installation was 34,361 refugees.\

She received a Bachelor of Science in Multimedia and Computer Science from University of Oregon in 2001, and an MPS from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2007.

During her time at NYU, she founded NORTD labs with Stefan Hechenberger, a research and development lab which developed open source multi-touch systems CUBIT and TouchKit, as well Lasersaur an open-source laser cutter.

Her and her projects have been supported by numerous residencies and fellowships.

CUBIT (multi-touch) was originally developed as a thesis project at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2006 and its continued research and development into 2008 as TouchKit was supported by a fellowship at Eyebeam Atelier.

She held Eyebeam fellowships in 2007 – 2008 and in 2013 as Eyebeam and Mozilla's first Open(art) Fellow and NORTD labs was a fellow at Culture Lab in 2011.

Wagenknecht is cited as developing the process of drone painting in 2007 as a mechanical method of painting in order to surrender the human gesture to the machine.

It started its alpha stage in March 2011 and beta stage in June 2011 after successful funding on Kickstarter.

Current worldwide Lasersaur builds can be viewed on their google map page.

Lasersaur systems have also been built by many universities such as New York University, University of Newcastle, and Carnegie Mellon University.

The WifiTagger runs on OpenWrt firmware and a TP-Link WR741ND router which likens Wi-Fi SSIDs to digital graffiti.

It allows you to create four open 32-digit SSIDs which when selected directs the user to the interface to add new tags.

During 2012 NORTD labs held residencies at Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design in Basel, Switzerland and Carnegie Mellon University's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

Wagenknecht was a member of the now-disbanded Free Art and Technology Lab aka F.A.T. lab.

It was developed for Free Art and Technology Lab in 2012.

In Webcam Venus is a project created by asking online Sexcam performers to replicate iconic works of art.

This piece was an experimental homage to both fine art and the lowbrow internet phenomenon of cams.

Wagenknecht founded Deep Lab in 2013, which focuses on alternative market economies and creative research, using anonymity as a proxy.

The first open-source Multi-touch system using Diffused Illumination with software written in OpenFrameworks was developed under NORTD labs as their first open source project.

CUBIT (multi-touch) was designed with the intention to redefine visual computing and depart from the mouse pointer paradigm.

The piece was developed for Free Art and Technology Lab in 2013 in collaboration with Pablo Garcia.

Asymmetric Love re-uses CCTV equipment and arranges 14 cameras into a 'baroque' chandelier.

It is placed as such in an entrance portal of museums or major collection houses.

Asymmetric Love is a chandelier composed of CCTV cameras rather than candles or light bulbs.

Number 2 from the series was the highest-selling lot at Phillips Auction House in New York City, curated by Lindsay Howard, for their first digital art auction in October 2013.

Deep Lab was founded by Wagenknecht in 2014 with the support of The Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University to examine contemporary culture through an understanding of alternative market economies and creative research, using anonymity as a proxy.

The group's works are accessible via a hidden services site on the deep web.

The collaborative is made up primarily of women working within privacy, surveillance, code, big data research, art and critical culture.

Founding members include Jillian York, Claire L. Evans, and Lorrie Cranor.

Data and Dragons 1-3 is a project that consists of three installation pieces, those being Data and Dragons: XXXX.XXX (2014), Data and Dragons: Cloud Farming (2014), Data and Dragons: Kilohydra (2014). XXXX.XXX is an installation piece that is part of the Data & Dragons Level 1-3 project launched in 2014.

Pieces in the series include Foundational Mathematics as Concept Art, (2015); Everything and Nothing was Beautiful (2014); and the series umbrella series Black Hawk Paint (2008–).

In 2015 as part of a residency at the New Museum in New York City, she performed drone painting live for the first time publicly in over 500 people.

The Lasersaur is an open source laser cutter designed by NORTD labs to fill the need of makers, artists, and scientists who wanted a safe, cheap, and highly capable machine.

In 2015 Deep Lab was in residence at NEW INC in 2015.

In 2018 the collaborative was commissioned and in residence for the York Biennial where they developed the site-specific 10.5-hour large-scale video work "Can You Die If You Don’t Exist?", which was conceived by Deep Lab as part of the residency.