Touch, Don't Touch is an interdisciplinary exploration of participatory artworks and tangible interfaces. It aims to create various instruments that tie in with the human propensity for multi-modal experience. The current project "Featherbox" was created by Wajid Yaseen.
Collaboration with Wajid Yasseen, Charles Matthews & Matthias Lichtenegger
October 2008 – Present
Ear Cinema is a collaborative multi-platform installation and performance piece, incorporating animation and film footage on 4 screens, sonic art techniques on 8 speakers arranged as a cube, and live performance. Its focus lies in the ability to deliver a story with a piece that is defined as 'Immersive Theatre'.
Collaboration primarily with Wajid Yaseen, Gadi Sassoon and Dave Hunt. Full credits.
October 2008 – Present
The Graffiti Research Lab (G.R.L.) was founded 2006 in NYC and is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source technologies for urban communication. After a lose collaboration in July 2007, G.R.L. Vienna followed after an invitation to Ars Electronica in September 2007.
Collaboration with Florian Hufsky, Florian Frühauf, Evan Roth, James Powderly, Theo Watson and the G.R.L.'s greater collective.
July 2007 – Present
NetzNetz is the self-organised funding pool for netart and netculture, supported by the MA 7 (culture and arts council of the city government of Vienna), department for film and new media. It has been awarding €500.000 annually since 2006.
Collaboration primarily with Agnes Peschta, Andreas Leo Findeisen, Joanna Pianka, Florian Lauber, Manfred Krejcik. The NetzNetz community consists of more than 400 validated members.
December 2007 – December 2008
A collection of smaller projects of mine that have photographic documentation.
More projects can be found in my resumé. Listed in no particular order.
2002 – Present
(Timezone: GMT)
This is a collection of the work that I've done, the categorisation is a rough outline to make it better readable. A PDF version is also available.
As a product of modern fast paced culture, Michael Zeltner dropped out of institutionalised education at the age of 15, and went on to pursue an attention-deficit-disorder driven autodidact lifestyle worshipping the overlords of our times, machines.
After having been re-socialised by the art-group monochrom, he contributed to numerous multinational large scale Open Source and business projects, amongst others Plone, an enterprise level content management system, and Maestro Headquaters, the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab's community for the Mars robots "Spirit" and "Opportunity".
Since then, he rediscovered his roots, now exploring the spaces in technical possibilities of humanistic storytelling. After co-founding the localised cell of Graffiti Research Lab (G.R.L.) in Vienna, he helped distribute the €500.000 of the first self-organised government funding pool NetzNetz as part of its coordination team.
He now lives and works in London, contributing to projects such as Touch, Don't Touch and Ear Cinema, as well as continuing his work as G.R.L..
Since 2002
Technologies that I've actively used in projects: Python, C++, Zope X3, Zope 2, PHP 4, Perl 5, ASP 3, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Semantic Web (RDF, RDFS, OWL), SVG, XML, XSLT, XPath, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL 2000, ZODB, Redland, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks, NodeBox & DrawBot, Processing, OpenFrameworks, Inkscape, Adobe Illustrator - too many overall, this gives you an idea.
Premeditated Public Presence is where I put everything that I currently work on, find interesting or use in one way or another.