Paul Heinrich Bethge
1993-now
researcher // artist
TL;DR: A media researcher and creative coder, also known as Paul Henri from Karlsruhe, Germany, currently based in Hong Kong. He explores intermedial translation and multimodal interactions between humans and machines.
Born in a village close to Karlsruhe, Germany, Paul grew up with lakes on the door step and a GameBoy tied to his hands. This early, yet constrained, access to technology sparked his interest in the world of electronics. While studying he soon realized his passion for programming and synthesizers and began developing prototypes for interactive sound devices. With games and music as his main interests, he pursued a relaxed student life giving different courses in computer science.
After completing his master's degree, COVID19 apprublty changed his career plans, but got lucky as a software developer at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. As part of the team of intelligent.museum he supported resident artists in artwork production, developed open source software for artists and started to explore his own ideas. During his time at the ZKM he got introduced to live coding and joined the newly formed _\|/_ Toplap Karlsruhe. Since then he has been performing as a visual artist as Paul Henri.
Contact: bethgeph at gmail dot com
Github: bytosaur
Insta: le_paul_henri
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