Matthias Tarasiewicz, researcher, technology theorist and project developer located in Vienna, Austria. Topics: artistic technology, open source cinema, cryptocurrencies. Matthias Tarasiewicz co-founded the <a href="http://codedcultures.com">CODED CULTURES</a> initiative (media arts festival and research platform) and is active as curator, researcher and technology theorist since the last millennium. Deeply involved in coding and decoding (both literally and theoretically) he researches in the fields of artistic technologies, experimental documentation and cryptocurrencies. His work BitcoinCloud received various prizes and has been shown internationally since 2010. He currently works as editor of the <a href="http://researchcultures.com">Journal for Research Cultures</a>, runs the <a href="http://artisticbokeh.com">Artistic Bokeh</a> initiative and is project lead of <a href="http://artistictechnology.at">Artistic Technology Research</a> at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He co-founded the <a href="http://riat.at">Research Institute for Arts and Technology</a> > and is ambassador and researcher of the <a href="http://apertus.org">Apertus AXIOM</a> (open hardware cameras and open source cinema).