BIO
Michael Tan
Designer working across motion, 3D and real time systems.
Based in Sydney, on Gadigal and Dharawal country, and for 14 years in Berlin, Germany.
I set concept and visual direction, and build the production systems that deliver it: procedural pipelines in Houdini, real time and interactive work in TouchDesigner and custom generative AI workflows that let small teams produce high volume, art directed output.
Work spans brand campaigns and product, permanent exhibition environments, live performance and authored artwork, from mobile AR and game prototypes to 360 degree installations, motor show environments and arena tour visuals.
Australian citizen with EU Permanent Residency.
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia (2000–2003)
Bachelor of Design (Multimedia Design)
- 2024 Refraction Festival – Public Records, New York, USA
- 2024 Vorspiel / CTM Festival – Untitled 10999, Berlin, Germany
- 2024 Structures of Being – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
- 2022 Map × Territory – Arkaoda, Berlin, Germany
- 2021 Das Giftraum – Das Gift, Berlin, Germany
- 2020 101 Remote Sessions – Berlin + Moscow + Vladivostok
- 2019 MASS MoCA – North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
- 2019 Gray Area Festival – San Francisco, USA
- 2019 Pitch Festival and Arts – Ararat, Australia
- 2019 Carrier A/V – re:publica Conference, Berlin, Germany
- 2019 FIBER Festival – Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2018 MUTEK at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
- 2018 Hexadome ISM – Gropius Bau Museum, Berlin, Germany
- 2018 Berlin Atonal – Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany
- Amazon
- Mercedes-Benz
- YouTube
- Gucci
- Red Bull
- Roland
- Future Classic
- Viega
- OMV
- Koto
- NaN
- Monomango
- Tamschick Media+Space
- Antoni
- Collider
- 032c Magazine
- Warp Records
- Philippe Parreno / Esther Schipper Gallery Berlin
- Entangled Others
- Sofia Crespo
- Eidotech GmbH
- Zanias
- Dopplereffekt
- Blanck Mass
- Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
- Berlin Atonal
- Berliner Festspiele
- re:publica
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2024
“Hyperfuturism” – Vorspiel / CTM Festival
vorspiel.berlin / hyperfuturism -
2022
“Map × Territory” – Resident Advisor
ra.co / events / 1600615 -
2019
“ISM Review” – Resident Advisor
ra.co / reviews / 22555 -
2018
“3D Through the Eyes ” – Gestalten Journal
gestalten.com / 3d-through-the-eyes-of-michael-tan -
2018
“ISM Hexadome Exhibition” – Festspiele / Gropius Bau
berlinerfestspiele.de / ism-hexadome