About us

3e8 is a studio for digital art, interactive exhibits and productions with creative technologies, located in Vienna and Berlin. With a strong focus on user experience and emotional storytelling, we conceptualize, design and develop projects for exhibitions, events, public spaces and the internet. In addition to commissioned work with and for curators, agencies, institutes and the public sector, we also pursue our own ideas in audiovisual performances, data visualisations and political activism as a group of interdisciplinary designers and media artists.

Core Team

  • Felix Betzenbichler
  • Rosa Havel
  • Christoph Ignaz Kirmaier
  • Philipp Parteder

Extended Team

  • Thomas Geissl
  • Ilina Kokaleska
  • Bessie Normand
  • Ben Wesch

Current Interns

  • Lukas Kokorovic
  • Aisling Scroggs

Friends & Collaborateurs

  • Bildwerk
  • BitBuddies
  • Die CAUSA
  • Nora Dibowski
  • fffeed
  • Grantler Instruments
  • Rosi Grillmair
  • Damjan Kokalevski
  • Johannes Lemke
  • Motion Experience Lab
  • MVD Austria
  • The NODE Institute
  • Micha Elias Pichlkastner
  • Jakob Schauer
  • pixel.forest()
  • Tangible Music Lab
  • USTP
  • vvvv
  • Wunderwuzzi Roboter

Technology Partners

  • info-beamer
  • Interactive Scape
  • my-webspace.at
  • OTTOsonics
  • ReBeam

Funded by

  • Wirtschaftsagentur Wien

Artists & Educators

Beyond our work with clients and our own artistic projects, we collaborate with universities and institutes to share knowledge through student engagement, workshops and tutorials. For the past few years, we have been teaching at the USTP St. Pölten and at The NODE Institute Berlin, offering beginner courses in vvvv as well as several intermediate workshops, and produce official tutorials for the YouTube channel of vvvv. Additionally, we are connected to the Tangible Music Lab at Kunstuni Linz, where three of us study Postdigital Lutherie, a master for designing, researching, and developing new musical interfaces.

Methods & Tools

For our projects we develop our own pipelines, modules and libraries that can be flexibly combined, made with the programming environment vvvv and web technologies. This allows us to offer a wide range of creative technologies, especially to communicate and visualize research results or complex data sets embedded in innovative interaction concepts.

Technologies

  • Gesture and object recognition for multitouch screens
  • Camera tracking for body, hands and faces
  • Haptic interfaces and physical computing
  • Real-time data visualization & animation
  • Light installations
  • Multichannel sound design & synthesis
  • Mobile web interfaces and applications
  • Content management systems

Appearances

2025

  • Workshop: AntiVVVVa, Motion Experience Lab KISD
  • Talk: “The Studio as a System”, TH Köln
  • Course: Lucid Dreams Festival 2025, USTP
  • Residency: WOW Signal Festival, Vienna

2024

  • Talk: “VL.Kit”, Interactive Scape Partner Event
  • Exhibition: “Bewegte Orte”, Volkskundemusem, Klimabiennale Wien
  • Course: Lucid Dreams Festival 2024, USTP