Publications

• 2021
  • Leporello accompanying the Autofrei.app with a text by Stephan Rößler, head of the Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen.
• 2018
  • Wolf, Oliver Olsen: “Affinity to Artefacts: Humans’ perception of movement in technological objects”. PhD Thesis, Queen Mary University of London.
  • Wolf, Oliver Olsen and Geraint Wiggins: “Look! It’s moving! Is it alive? How movement affects humans’ affinity to living and non-living entities”. In: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. issn: 1949-3045. doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2018.2820707.
• 2017
  • Wolf, Oliver Olsen and Geraint Wiggins: “Dawn of the living hairbrushes: humans affective responses to movement in artefacts”. In Proceedings of HRI 2017 workshop on “The Role of Intentions in Human-Robot Interaction” at the Human-Robot Interaction Conference in Vienna, Austria.
• 2016
  • “Intersections” – Co-organiser of the symposium discussing symbiosis between arts, media, science and technology.
  • “Artists-in-labs: Recomposing Art and Science” – book section. Case study as a reflective investigation into the processes of theory and practice in the arts and sciences, Irène Hediger and Jill Scott (Ed.), Zürich.
• 2012
  • “Blackbox” – book section. Publication for the identically named series of events about processes of creation and production in art and design, Flavia Caviezel, Sabine Hagmann (Ed.), Tallin/Zürich.
• 2005
  • “Interview with Mr. Lui” – Interview, 26 min, New York, USA. Mr.Lui and his Team are runnning CTL-Electronics in Lower Manhattan since mid 60’s. Since then he’s been serving and modifying equipment for many early video-artist and provided them with an editing facility known as the Eggstore.
• 2004
  • “Interview with Woody Vasulka” – Interview, 69 min, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany. Woody and his wife Steina Vasulka are known as early video pioneers. They established the electronic video theater ’The Kitchen’ and curated the Eigenwelt der Apparate Welt: Pioneers of Electronic Art exhibition at the ARS-Electronica in Linz, Austria.

Invited lectures

• 2019
  • International Design Week, Affinity to Artefacts, University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, BRD.
• 2017
  • Kultursonntag, Social relationship to objects – Aesthetic, Technique & Design, St.Georgen im Schwarzwald, BRD.
  • Human-Robot Interaction Konferenz, research finding on the robotic hairbrush ‘Uruca Caliandrum’, Wien, AT.
• 2016
  • Vehicles for thought, Designing Behaviour, Goldsmith University of London, UK.
• 2014
  • ’mal au pixel’ Festival, presentation and artist talk, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, FR.
  • Forum Design and Art, presentation and artist talk, Hochschule für Gestaltung Basel, CH.
• 2013
  • Robots on tour, presentation of ‘Teleonomies’ robots, Science Café, Zürich, CH.
• 2011
  • Servus TV, interview and artist profile, AT.
  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung, interview, Zürich, CH.
• 2010
  • Blackbox Nr.4, presentation of the robotic hairbrush Uruca Caliandrum, Corner College, Zürich, CH.
• 2007
  • Dorkbot, artist talk, Tokyo, JP.
  • Puredata Convention, demonstration of the robotic installation ‘Speculatrix Procarya’, Montreal, CA.
• 2004
  • Harvestworks, artist talk and presentation of experimental video works, New York, USA.