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My name is André Castro (he/they) and for over a decade I have been working at the intersection of art, technology, and education. Between 2013 and 2020, I was a Graduate level tutor at the Experimental Publishing program at the Piet Zwart Art Institute, where I taught programming and coached students on their individual projects. I was also in charge of production of graduation shows, and managed the institution’s official archive.
Following this work, I took on a role as a knowledge engineer at the German National Library of Science and Technology, leading teams in optimizing data management in the fields of cultural heritage and scientific research. Throughout these various roles, I freelanced as a technical consultant in the arts for artists such as Lawrence Abu Hamdan and institutions such as Tent Rotterdam. Currently, I am focusing on helping small businesses, such as the local Queer sex-shop Tailbone, find sustainable and value-driven solutions for their growing operations.
Having a constant curiosity to learn new skills, my personal interests range from DIY communities and open-source software to body piercings, fermentation, cooking and bouldering.
- email: andrecastro83 [at] gmail [dOt] com
- CV: File:Cv AndreCastro.pdf
- https://github.com/andrecastro0o
- more of me
Media Design for Art-Works
Blog
- Tailbone Talks - a kinky corner of queer artists talking about sex (2022)
- Permutations (2016)
- Volkskrant-Building.epub (2014)
- Collaborative workflows (2014)
- Head-Body-Legs of Spam (2013)
- FREE (2013)
- A Bestiary of Spam Characters (2013)
- Free Libraries for Every Soul (2013)
- Rotterdam Street Map (2013)
- Sound Development City (2012)
Publishing Projects
- Renée Turner's Warp Weft Memory (2018)
- Beyond Social (2014, 2016)
- Mondothèque: A Radiated Book (2016)
- INC Publications (2014, 2015)
- Hybrid Publishing Resources (2015)
Works
- 2015 Baltimore protests, according to The Wikipedians (2015)
- Rotterdam Map (2014)
- Singing with Anna (2014)
- Narratives of Deception (2013)
- Chatbot Drama (2013)
- Data Factory (2012)
- Tactile Noise (2011)
- Boat People (2007)
- Radio Fragments (2007)
- Sonifications (2007)
Fermentation
- Fermented Tomato Hot Sauce (27 August 2022)
- Fermented Apple Hot Sauce (27 August 2022)
Teaching Materials
- Essential web design - WdKA Graphic Design
- Single source publishing workflow - WdKA Graphic Design
- Hybrid publishing - WdKA
- HTML2Print with Weasy Print - WdKA
- Optical character recognition - PZI Experimental Publishing in Special Issue#5
- Command-line Imposition for print - PZI Experimental Publishing in Special Issue#4
- Wikis as publishing platforms - PZI Experimental Publishing in Special Issue#4
- RaspberryPi sensing skin conductivity - PZI Experimental Publishing in Special Issue#2
- Graphic Scores - PZI Experimental Publishing in Special Issue#2
- An introduction to sound & hearing - PZI Experimental Publishing in Special Issue#2
Code Notes
- Ffmpeg notes (2021)
- MPV (2021)
- RDF* & SPARQL* (2021)
- Fuseki SPARQL server (2020)
- Semantic Cite (2020)
- LinkedWiki-Mediawiki Extension (2020)
- Mediawiki with Fuseki triplestore backen (2020)
- RDF in Semantic Mediawiki (2020)
- Docker (2020)
- RDFIO-Mediawiki Extension (2020)
- Systemd service files (2019)
- Microbit Notes01:Connect/debug (2019)
- Debian9 network settings (2019)
- SQL Notes (2019)
- Microbit Code01:LEDs Animation (2019)
- Microbit Code02:buttons&arrows (2019)
- Micropython 01 start (2019)
- Microbit Code03:Rock Scissors Paper (2019)
- Convert MXF files with ffmpeg (2018)
- Archive Website (2018)
- Markdown website generator (2017)
- Testing 1,2 (2015)
- Spreadsheets to Mediawiki (2015)
