Karsten Schmidt (aka toxi) is a software developer, (re)searcher and artist with a strong interest in computational design of all forms.
Originating in the early days of the demo scene, for the past 14 years he’s been laterally involved in a wide range of disciplines from games design/development, interaction design, web development, data visualization, VJ culture to brand design and building interactive installations for major global brands. He’s using code to realize new design processes and build custom tools exploring these new forms of design and styles of expression.
He’s heavily contributed to the open source Processing project. His work has been featured in the press, online and exhibited internationally.
[...] Karsten Schmidt, who programmed the generative sculpture, talked about a book that highly influenced him called “Hallucinations And Their Impact on Art” by E. M. R. Critchley. The book states, that most innovative paintings, uses of colours or forms are due to the fact, that the seeing conditions of the artist had changed like becoming blind or colourblind for example. [...]