Johannes Bereiter-Payr

Artist · Engineer · Scientist

Johannes Bereiter-Payr builds things for humans from matter and code. He also hosts workshops on technical and artistic topics.

Freelance engineer for technical solutions (not only) for artists and creatives. Data scientist researching applications of machine learning in medical image processing. Artistic work on emergence, perception and consciousness.

See my work

Projects | References

2022

Technical realization of Invisible Cities Kottbusser Tor by Peter Lorenz. Trailer on vimeo

Workshop Interactive Props: Microcontroller basics for (theater) creators at Zukunftskonferenz hosted by Theaterakademie August Everding (Munich) and ACADEMY FOR_THEATER_AND_DIGITALITY (Dortmund).

2021

Interactive performancemachine in the pizza box with Peter Lorenz, during our fellowship at the ACADEMY FOR_THEATER_AND_DIGITALITY in Dortmund.

Workshop on Interactive Props with Peter Lorenz in Ålesund, Norway. Organized by PlayOn! for members of teatret vårt and Pilot Theatre.

Technical implementation and support of installation at exhibition Viel Tamtam um Nichts by Krater Fajan.

2020

Technical implementation of Invisible Cities for The Doing Group, directed by Peter Lorenz for Magic Carpets

2019

Concept and implementation of an electrical instrument, the Transmographon, with Christian Schwarzer for Magic Carpets

Technical implementation of art installation Liminal Protocols by Mika Motskobili for Magic Carpets

2018

Feasibility study on video surveillance of farm animals, with Johannes Bodner (from 2017 to 2018)

2017

Technical implementation of art installation / public survey machine for KUNSTtransPORT 2017

2016

Concept presentation “Briding/Bonding” at emcsr avantarde conference 2016 (European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research)

Technical implementation of networked video installation for KUNSTtransPORT 2016

2015

Concept and technical implementation of various video installations with artists Anna Lerchbaumer and others

Technical implementation of TV-Wall art installation for styleconception

Concept and Production of three day happening SakralRaum – Sacred Space

2014

Stage design with Alexander Roshe for theater production um:Hausen by Martin Zistler (Director) and Martin Plattner (Text)

2013

Stage design for Wie die Blümlein draußen zittern, a performative art installation by Das Labor and KJDT (with Alexander Roshe and Christoph Fügenschuh)

2010

Founding member of Innsbruck’s hackerspace, (it-syndikat)

Research | Education | Employment

Johannes Bereiter-Payr is a freelance engineer, specializing in technical solutions and prototyping for creatives. He has a masters degree in medical technology from MCI – Management Center Innsbruck and is currently working on his Ph.D. at the Medical University of Innsbruck as a data scientist for VASCage. His research topics are machine learning and artificial intelligence in medical image processing.

Research

Since ST 2022

Ph.D. student in IGDT – Image Guided Diagnosis and Therapy at Medical University of Innsbruck.

WT 2021/22

Fellowship at the ACADEMY FOR_THEATER_AND_DIGITALITY in Dortmund, Germany

Education

2019 – 2021

Master’s degree for Medical Technologies at MCI – Management Center Innsbruck. Thesis Topic: Automated Detection of Osteoporosis using HR-pqCT Data, passed with distinction.

2016 – 2019

Bachelor’s degree Medical, Health and Sports Engineering at MCI. Thesis Topic Multimodal Image Registration with MicroCT and Histology.

2000 – 2005

Polytechnic for industrial engineering (HTL Anichstraße, Innsbruck).

Employment

Since April 2022

Data Scientist (Ph.D. candidate position) at VASCage, Core Facility MicroCT.

2020 – 2021

Project staff at MCI Center for Robotics, Production and Automation

March 2016 – September 2016

Technical assistant at Metallbau Ulfried Mayer

November 2013 – Juni 2015

Stage technician at BRUX - Freies Theater Innsbruck

2013

Managing director of communal gallery and artistic off-space kooio – Koordinationsinstitut für Inhalt und Organisation, Innsbruck, Mariahilfstr.

June 2011 – 2012

Software developer, R&D and minor shareholder of ITEG IT-Engineers GmbH

2007 – 2012

Software developer at various companies

Contact | Imprint

Ing. Johannes Bereiter-Payr, M.Sc.
Weisstraße 9
6112 Wattens
AUSTRIA

github.com/jpunkt

mail [at] johannespayr [dot] eu

+43 699 16575200

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