Engineer (B. Eng.), 3D artist, photo- & typographer, digital designer (M.A.) and foremost: researcher (PhD). Sometimes poet, more often thinker. Most often dabbler. I am looking forward to you and your amazing projects.
Please note: I stopped my full-time freelancing to work as a professor at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (Austria). Still, for current customers and other interesting projects or challenges I am nevertheless available. Let’s get in touch!
A full list of my recent peer-reviewed publications (with a lot of free PDF-downloads) can be found here.
What keeps me busy at the moment:
- I was appointed Full Professor at Carinthia University of Applied Sciences in Austria.
- I worked with the awesome team at the Rhine Ruhr Center for Science Communication Research in Germany, where we investigated as well as developed new forms and formats of science communication
- I am one of the editors of the Open Access Living Handbook of Science Communication and Science Studies.
- Get your free textures for 3D and other applications at my project patternpanda.org
- I exhibited at Venice Biennale Architettura 2016 with the Ideal Spaces Working Group
- One of my (older) science projects (city of the future): Hybrid City Lighting
- My personal blog regarding the progress of my PhD can be found here: atmosphaere.net (in German, now finished)
- Highly work in progress: The Landscape Wandering Machine – an art and research project with Michael Johansson (Sweden)
- I am co-founder and editor in chief of the open access academic journal Urban Eidos. (ISSN: 2942-5131)
Skills
I mostly use the following software:
- Maxon Cinema 4D, PixPlant 3, Quixel, Autodesk Fusion
- I have switched to Blender in 2021 (what an amazing tool! – I blogged about my first explorations on futureland.)
- Corona, Cycles, Redshift, LuxCore & Octane render engines
- Python, JavaScript, Processing, Unreal Engine & Unity 3D
- Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Lightroom, Premiere
- Inkscape (still hoping that the development will somehow continue)
- Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo
- Apple Final Cut Pro
- Glyphs, FontLab, Fontself & Fontographer
- maxMSP, PureData, Ardour, Logic
- A lot of statistic tools such as R, Sofa, SPSS, JASP
Online
Some of my online profiles, feel free to contact me wherever you like:
- Researchgate: researchgate.net/profile/Andreas_Siess
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/andreas-siess/
- Xing: xing.com/profile/Andreas_Siess3
- Google Scholar: scholar.google.de/citations?user=LH5JJj8AAAAJ
twitter: twitter.com/eisensafran(proudly inactive since January 2022)
Interview
In summer of 2015 the guys from KLAK had an awesome visit at my hut in the Black Forest. We were chatting about my long exposure photo of the ISS at Steinberger See in Bavaria. So if you want a sneak peak of me with short hair and beardless, here you go (movie is obviously in German – sorry!):