Julian Adenauer is an artist and creative engineer based in Berlin. He is interested in the intersection of art, design, technology and culture. He examines emerging technologies and their impact on society and creative expression.

Since 2009 he's one half of the artist/inventor duo Sonice Development. In 2012 he co-founded retune. – a platform at the intersection of art and technology with an annual festival at its core.
He works as a freelancer in a variety of constellations: as realizer of artworks, organizer of events, workshop leader and consultant.

He has experience with: robotics, mechatronics, physical prototyping, sensors, hardware design, creative coding, openframeworks, processing, arduino, linux, website programming etc.

hello at julianadenauer dot de
twitter: @julianadenauer

studio address:
applied future studio
glogauer str. 21, 2nd backyard
10999 berlin

projects

exhibitions

  • 10/2015 "Sensing Colorspace" with Sonice Development, Milan, IT
  • 10/2015 "Emerging Colorspace" with Sonice Development, Maintenant Festival, Rennes, FR
  • 10/2015 "Waving Notion" with Sonice Development, The Big Draw, Leuven, BE
  • 06/2015 Crosshatching Colorspace with Sonice Development, COLAB Gallery, Weil am Rhein, DE
  • 05/2015 "Emerging Colorspace" with Sonice Development, FIBER Festival 2015, Amsterdam, NL
  • 11/2014 "Sensing Colorspace" with Sonice Development, KIKK Festival 2014, Namur, BE
  • 11/2014 "G-Frame" with The Constitute, Media Architecture Biennal, Aarhus, DK
  • 09/2014 „Inscribing Circles“ with Sonice Development, St. Gallen, CH
  • 05/2014 „Rising Colorspace“ with Sonice Development, Metropol Park, Berlin, DE
  • 04/2014 „Sensing Colorspace“ with Sonice Development, 25 hours hotel, Berlin, DE
  • 11/2013 „Ready to Cloud“ with The Constitute, Riga, LV
  • 09/2013 „Ready to Cloud“ with The Constitute, FACT Liverpool / Bauhaus Dessau, UK/DE
  • 08/2013 „Emerging Colorspace“ with Sonice Development, Ausstellung „Red Never Follows“, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  • 04/2013 „Ready to Cloud“ with The Constitute, Fuorisalone Milano Design Week, Mailand, IT
  • 05/2013 „Trial Record Musrara“ with Sonice Development, Musrara Mix Festival 2013, Jerusalem, IL
  • 11/2012 „Trial Record“ with Sonice Development, BLOOOM/Art Fair, Köln, DE
  • 05/2012 „Musrara Mix Festival 2012“ mit Sonice Development, Jerusalem, IL
  • 04/2011 „Prägung“ mit Sonice Development, Berlin, DE
  • 06/2011 „Design in Aktion“ mit Sonice Development, Warschau, PL
  • 04/2011 „Piece de la resistance“ mit Sonice Development, Mediamatic, Amsterdam, NL
  • 11/2010 „New Media Meeting“ mit Sonice Development, Norköpping, SWE
  • 06/2010 „Asalto #5“ mit Sonice Development, Zaragoza, ESP

events

  • 10/2015 Hot Shit, Fabrik, Hamburg
  • 06/2015 retune studio visit #06 - Studio NAND (photos)
  • 05/2015 retune studio visit #05 - THINGSCON Edition
  • 01/2015 retune studio visit #04 - Feld (photos)

talks

  • 10/2015 Moderation & Lightning Talk der Veranstaltung "Industrie 4.0 als Chance für kreatives Unternehmertum“, Organisiert durch das Kompetenzzentrum Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft des Bundes, Kultschmiede W8 Kiel, DE
  • 09/2015 Format:Innensichten meets Kreativmacher MV, Initiative Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft, Rostock, DE
  • 09/2015 Eingeladener Vortrag für Vertreter der Bundesregierung im Rahmen von "Kreativ Jackpot", GSC Berlin, DE
  • 06/2015 Tag des offenen Kopfes, HAW Hamburg, DE
  • 06/2015 "Permanent Beta" mit Jörg Petruschat, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, DE
  • 06/2015 Format:Innensichten, Initiative Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft, Basislager Coworking, Leipzig, DE
  • 05/2015 "Systems of Creation", FIBER Festival, Amsterdem, NL
  • 04/2015 Business as Unusual, Karton, Bremen, DE
  • 03/2015 Innovationstag, Executive Update, Good School, Hamburg, DE
  • 01/2015 "Digital Fabrication", Update Digital, Good School, Hamburg, DE
  • 11/2014 KIKK Festival 2014, Namur, BE
  • 04/2014 resonate 2014, Belgrad, Serbia
  • 09/2013 retune 2013, Berlin
  • 09/2013 RE:MAKE Festival, Platoon Kunsthalle, Berlin
  • 04/2013 Processing Berlin, Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance (LEAP), Berlin
  • 01/2013 „The World is but a prototype!“, designtransfer, Berlin
  • 11/2013 Diskussion zu Prototyping in Designprozessen, pro qm, Berlin
  • 10/2012 Media City Conference, Weimar
  • 01/2012 undsonstso #18, Dresden
  • 06/2010 HS Magdeburg
  • 06/2010 International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal
  • 02/2010 Winter Augmented Reality Meeting, Graz, Austria
  • ß0/2009 Mensch & Computer 2009: Grenzenlos frei!?, Berlin

workshops

  • 01/2015 "In/Visible City Prototyping Lab" organized by Public Art Lab, Mentor for the topic Translocality, Berlin
  • 01/2015 "Systems of Creation" with Michael Haas, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, DE
  • 09/2014 "Design Fiction & Narrative Prototyping" with Christian Zöllner, Wuhan, CN
  • 05/2013 Interactive Art Workshopp with Michael Haas, Musrara Mix Festival 2014, Jerusalem, IL
  • 10/2010 Arduino Workshop, Interaction Week 2010, HTW Dresden, DE

publications

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