Max‑Gerd Retzlaff

Max-Gerd Retzlaff lives and works in Berlin, Germany, as a computer scientist, artist, technology developer, researcher (computer graphics), and freelancer (mainly Common Lisp).

Content by Max‑Gerd Retzlaff:

• art at Retzlaff | Wenger

• his company Defsystem UG (haftungsbeschränkt) – IoT devices and connected sensor systems with uLisp

• research and publications by him at KIT Computer Graphics Group (archival link)

• his weblog since 2006 – Lisp, electronics, typography, literature, and miscellaneous

• Poezio – poem translations in Esperanto by Manfred Retzlaff, which is served by
  Argiope – a web based system to manage translations of poems that Max‑Gerd Retzlaff has written in Common Lisp in 2003.
  
  More on both in his text Manfred Retzlaff, published in Stadtsprachen Magazin – Issue no. 11, September 2019.

• The old homepage from 2002 to 2006, which was to be found at www.matroid.org until July 27, 2021.

Some highlights:

• The work »Daten|Spuren (Data|Trails)« was added to the collection of the ZKM Karlsruhe in 2015 with another copy on permanent display in the DASA Dortmund since 2020. Joint work of Retzlaff | Wenger.

• 2011 the work »uoısuǝɯıp ɹǝɥʇo« (»other dimension«) won 2^nd price in the ZKM competition »Woven Light«. Joint work of Retzlaff | Wenger.

• His diploma thesis »Effiziente Simulation des Abtrags durch Rotationskörper« (2010), supervised by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Prautzsch, was honored as best final thesis at the KIT Department of Informatics by the Friend’s Association of the FZI Research Center For Information Technology in 2011.

Max is an amateur radio (ham radio) enthusiast, having earned his German class A license in February 2023. His call sign is DJ4CS.

Contact:

• Max‑Gerd Retzlaff <mgr@matroid.org>

• Max‑Gerd Retzlaff <m.retzlaff@gmx.net>  (alternatively)