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Nortd Labs

Research and art collective

Summary

Research and art collective

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Stefan Hechenberger
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Stefan Hechenberger

Nortd Labs a.k.a. NOR_/D is an international research and development collaborative dedicated to the merging of open source art, architecture, software and system design.

Historically, NORTD Labs has developed open-source hardware such as CUBIT in 2007, which has been built and used by thousands of people, labs, hacker-spaces and universities worldwide.

According to co-founder Addie Wagenknecht, NORTD Labs "wants to change how people create, build and consume objects. Living in a software/internet powered world we forget about how physical products are created. We want to allow makers to feel empowered and to lose the black box feel of closed systems."{{cite news |access-date= 2017-09-06 |archive-date= 2016-12-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161228123539/http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2011/12/12/new-open-source-laser-cutter-hits-market/ |url-status= dead

Although NORTD Labs work is typically highly technical in nature, they define themselves as artists, not engineers.{{cite news |access-date= 2017-09-06 |archive-date= 2016-12-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20161228123539/http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2011/12/12/new-open-source-laser-cutter-hits-market/ |url-status= dead

History

NORTD Labs was founded in 2006 by Addie Wagenknecht and Stefan Hechenberger during graduate school at New York University and established officially during a research fellowship at the New York-based Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in 2007-2008. Most of NORTD Labs researchers and collaborators are based in New York City as well as Europe. Their work is documented and published online at the NORTD Labs website.

NORTD Labs has recently held fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and CultureLab UK.

Founders

Addie Wagenknecht: Co-Founder (United States)

Stefan Hechenberger: Co-Founder (Austria)

Select collaborators

Scott Snibbe, Laban Motion Player

Free Art and Technology Lab, BrickiPhone

OpenFrameworks, OpenCV library

Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture dFAB, Optimization of Parenting

Notable projects

Lasersaur, 2011
Publicity, 2010
Black Hawk Paint, 2009
TouchKit, 2008
ShadowProject, 2008
CUBIT, 2006

References

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