EMRG - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Researcher & PhD Student, Works on Story Table.
Ben Burtenshaw has a background in media arts and cultural research. He is PhD candidate at the Computational Linguistics Group (CLiPS, University of Antwerp). Ben is interested in generating narrative and poetic language through programming methods, and applying such systems within healthcare for children and the elderly. His PhD project is to develop an autonomous and interactive software client, that will respond to natural language input by generating stories and poems.
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- Co - Founder of EMRG and the Author of NodeBox
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Works on NodeBox 3.
Frederik is co-founder of EMRG and the author of NodeBox. He owns a private design company called Burocrazy. His PhD research studies the link between computers and art: the impact of procedural graphics applications on graphic designers. Specifically, if designers using this software are:
Efficient: can designers produce good designs faster?
Comprehensive: can they try out more things before settling on a finished design?
Creative: can they produce new things beyond the state-of-the-art?
Self-reliant: are they able to help themselves if they get stuck?
Job Titles:
- User Interface Designer, NodeBox Support Admin.
Job Titles:
- Researcher, Works on NodeBox 3.
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- Research Director
- Freelance Graphic Designer
Lucas Nijs has been a freelance graphic designer since 1981. He was employed at Apple Computer Europe from 1989-1994. He has been teaching new media, graphic design and experimental typography at the Sint Lucas School of Arts (Antwerp, BE), the Plantin Genootschap (BE, until 2005) and the Lahti Institute of Design (FI) since 1983. In 2004, he founded the Experimental Media Research Group. He has coordinated research funded by the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders, and co-promotes PhD theses of Tom De Smedt and Frederik De Bleser. For a brief overview of workshops taught by Lucas, refer to the workshops section.
Lucas Nijs has been invited to speak at several international art & design conferences, including ATypI 2004 (CZ), ATypI 2005 (FI), Integrated 2007 (BE), C.STEM 2007 (IT), Integrated 2009 (BE), LGM 2010 (BE), ISEA 2010 (DE), Integrated 2011 (BE).
Job Titles:
- Researcher & PhD Student, Works on Digital Nature for Healthcare, Story Table.
Job Titles:
- Civil Engineer and Technical Advisor for New Media Artists
- Research Projects
- Researcher, Works on Story Table.
Pieter Heremans is civil engineer and technical advisor for new media artists. He is currently affiliated with the Experimental Media Research Group (EMRG, St Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp, Belgium) as researcher.
Job Titles:
- Researcher, Works on NodeBox 3.
Stefan Gabriëls joined the Experimental Media Research Group in 2009. He holds a bachelor degree in software engineering and is studying for a master degree in arts. He has a specific interest in computer graphics and illustration. He is the co-author of NodeBox 3.
Job Titles:
- Software Engineer
- Artist
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Works on Pattern, NOGL.
Tom De Smedt is an artist and a software engineer. He is affiliated with the Computational Linguistics Group (CLiPS, University of Antwerp, BE) as postdoctoral researcher, co-founder of the Experimental Media Research Group, and invited artist at IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre, Leuven, BE).