Hi, I am Christoph Knoth and this is my website.

Together with Konrad Renner I share a virtual studio. We work on visual strategies, identities and websites. I also teach with Konrad at the HFBK — the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg in the class Digitale Grafik.

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Projects that I worked on

• Website for the Sternberg Press together with Konrad Renner, Wkshps and Systemantics
• Website for the festival Modell und Ruine organized by Werkleitz together with Konrad Renner
• Website for HGB – Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig together with Lamm & Kirch and Thomas Thiemich.
• Website for the festival Holen und Bringen organized by Werkleitz together with Anja Kaiser
• Website K, for A Year with P. Krishnamurthy with KW Berlin
• Bauhaus Imaginista, Online journal with Systemantics, (2018)
• CryptoRave #5 – Alexiety with !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Omsk Social Club
• Book <script>alert("!Mediengruppe Bitnik");</script> for !Mediengruppe Bitnik
• Schlossghost #2
• Website for the journal Nicht Mehr Noch Nicht with Werkleitz
• Website for the festival Nicht Mehr Noch Nicht organized by Werkleitz
• Reader for the architecture magazine Arch+
• Website for the ADKV – Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine representing almost 300 Kunstvereine in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg
• Online shop for the publisher Spector Books
• Website for the Trans-Positionen festival organized by Werkleitz
• Website for the album Schiiwerfer by Göldin and Bit-Tuner together with !Mediengruppe Bitnik
• Website for Holzer Kobler Architekturen with Project Projects
• Website for artist Simon Denny
• Website for the conference IC16 – shaping the future of mathematics communication
• Website for the exhibition Transparencies by Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Nürnberg; logos by Metahaven
• Website for the .move ON festival organized by Werkleitz
• Website for the Kunsthalle Zürich in collaboration with Dan Solbach; Typeface by Dinamo.us
• Website for the German Pavillon at the Venice Biennale 2015, representing Jasmina Metwaly / Philip Rizk, Olaf Nicolai, Hito Steyerl and Tobias Zielony, curated by Florian Ebner; Website together with graphic designers: Fabian Bremer, Nicola Reiter, Pascal Storz, Helmut Völter; Typeface by Dinamo.us
• Website for Simon Denny’s project Secret Power for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Venice Biennale together with David Bennewith
• Website for Luther Trip a contemporary view on the Mansfelder Land in the form of a travel.
• Website redesign for EMAN#EMARE – European Media Network
• Website redesign for Werkleitz – Centre for Media Art together with Konrad Renner
• Website for the Utopien Vermeiden Festival organized by Werkleitz
• Website for Schauspiel Stuttgart together with Spector Bureau and Katharina Köhler (archived version)
• Website for Die vergessenen Bücher together with Roland Früh and Corina Neuenschwander
• Website for Leipzig based artist Stefanie Leinhos
• Website for the Berlin based illustrators Golden Cosmos
• Blog and portfolio website of Matylda Krzykowski
• Website for photographer Nikolaus Brade (together with Nickel Berlin)
• Planing, design and setup for imaginary.org, one of biggest communities for maths and arts
• Website for book artist Friederike von Hellermann
• Website for artist Corinna Rotert
• Website for Aleksandar Todorović
• My parametric type design program that I developed in my research Project Computed Type (pdf). (Feel free to follow my computedtype twitter.)

Articles, Research and Lectures

• Lecture about my portfolio and screenshots at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
• Lecture about screenshots at the It’s a book, it’s a chance, it’s a times new romance at the Independent Publishing Fair Leipzig, 19th of March, 2016 at the HGB Leipzig.
• Lecture about screenshots with Konrad Renner at Easy Lessoning 6 in New York.
• I am a fellow at Akademie Schloß Solitude for the period 2015–2017.
• Article about screenshots for Grafik.net
• Lecture at Schau der Gestaltung VI about screenshots
• Lecture at a conference about research in graphic design: Tarptautinė konferencija. TIRIU, VADINASI MATAU in Vilnius, Lithuania
• Lecture at the conference Schrift im 21. Jahrhundert at the Typotage Leipzig at the Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany
• Lecture at Mzin project space for graphics and art, Leipzig, Germany
• Lecture at the Jan van Eyck Academy opening week 2012
• For the whole year of 2012 I was a design researcher at the Jan van Eyck Akademie with my project Computed Type
• Lecture at the ATypI in Reykjavík, Iceland
• The short version of my master’s thesis Computed Type (pdf)

Teaching and Workshops

• One day workshop and lecture as part of The Making of an Institution at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.
• One day workshop about parametric type with Anja Kaiser in the class of Franziska Morlok in the communication design department of the FH Potsdam University of Applied Sciences.
• One week workshop about temporary websites at the graphic design department of the HfG Karlsruhe.
• In the summer semester 2016 I gave a workshop in the graphic design department of the University for Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein called Big Blind Data which ended with a small workshop and lecture series organized by the students called How to be invisible.
• For the year 2016 Konrad Renner and I are guest researchers at Bauhaus University Weimar teaching a class on Digital Typography.
• One day workshop about the poster as website in the interactive design class of Luke Archer in the Graphic Design Department at Yale University School of Art in New Haven
• For the winter semester 2015 I was a guest professor at the graphic design department of the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
• One week workshop entitled Fonts by Command for the design bachelor students at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle together with Anja Kaiser
• One week Workshop entitled Fast Fonts for the graphic design students of the EKA in Tallin, Estonia
• One day workshop about Computed Type for the design master students at the Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam together with Anja Kaiser
• One week workshop about skeletons for the design bachelor students at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle
• 5 day workshop about programming fonts for the graphic design bachelor students at the ECAL (L’École cantonale d’art de Lausanne)
• Afternoon workshop at the SDN Junior Research Conference 2010 with the topic The Future of Magazines

Exhibitions

• LocalNonOffLine Cologne, Germany organized by Florian Kuhlmann at Boutique, Bruch&Dallas and Gold&Beton
• IMPRINT Fair 2013, Mainz, Germany
• Schrift im 21. Jahrhundert at the Museum für Druckkunst, Leipzig, Germany
• *Latent Stare* by David Bennewith at Casco in Utrecht, The Netherlands