Dietmar Offenhuber is a media artist with a background in architecture and is interested in the spatial concepts of cognition, representation and behavior. He holds degrees from TU Vienna and the MIT Media Lab and was a founding member of the Ars Electronica Futurelab. In 2004, Dietmar was a Japan Foundation Fellow at the IAMAS institute in Gifu, Japan, followed by a professorship for Animation at the University of Applied Sciences in Hagenberg. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as a Researcher at the MIT Media Lab. Currently he is Professor at the Art University Linz and Key Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media Art Research. Received awards include nominations for the ZKMʼs International Media Art Award and the FEIDAD Award, Honorable Mentions at Transmediale, Ars Electronica and a Special Mention at the Wroclav Media Art Biennale, the Jury Award at the Melbourne International Animation Festival, the Art Directors Club Silver Award and the Joseph Binder Award for design. In 2004 and 2005, Dietmar was a jury member in the animation category of the Prix Ars Electronica. Dietmar collaborates frequently with the sound artist Markus Decker and with the composers Sam Auinger and Hannes Strobl under the label “stadtmusik”, investigating the architectural qualities of sonic spaces.