on code.

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About me

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The Introduction

Hi, my name is Matthijs van Henten and this is my personal website. This is a record of some of the things I have been doing over the last couple of years.

I’ve been developing in PHP, Javascript and the web-stuff for the last five years or so, and I am working on Python as my second language. I have some knowledge of Processing, AS3 and rusty C++, did some Perl Monging long ago, and I love bash-one-liners and programmer’s trivia.

My primary interests are Open source software, video and media art, and I’m always looking for connections between the three. Most of the projects on this site are related to these subjects.

I live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, together with my small family, Finn and Silke.

The Short Story

1979
I was born in a blizzard, which is an extraordinary thing to happen in The Netherlands, especially in March…
fast forward…1999
After finishing high-school in my home town, I moved to Enschede, a small city close to the German border to study Art
2004
I graduated at the media art department of the AKI, Academy of Arts and Design in Enschede. I moved to Amsterdam, and september 2004 I enrolled in the University of Leiden to start a Msc. in Media Technology.
2006
Working freelance in web stuff while trying to study
2007
I became a Dad and started working for 1Site1, a webdevelopment company I had been doing a lot of business with. Refrigerated studies.
2008
From 1Site1, I moved on to work for a fantastic company called Fabchannel in 2008. Unfortunately, Fabchannel is no more, finishing business in may 2009. It was a real F* thing to happen, but someting good came out of it for me: I found a job at one of the places I had wanted to work for since Art school, Waag Society.
2009
Started working for Waag Society
2010
At the end of 2009, I enrolled at the University again, knowing I had the support of my family and job, to totally finally finish Mediatechnology.
2010
Finished my Masters’ degree in mediatechnology! Yay!

The Recent Projects

  • Video manipulation with python and opencv: a frippertronic tapeloop delay for video source movie
  • A study into audio synthesis from video source – real time interpretation of video as control parameters for supercollider source movie
  • Slicr, an app-engine slice tool in your browser appengine page source
  • Annotrax, an online platform for video annotation and browsing source and more
  • A mini-backend for the bijlmereuro project: collect information sent by RFID readers data visualisation

The Not Recent Projects

UBI LEONES!

(it’s all gone now.)

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March 9th, 2011 at 9:52 pm

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