Hajoe Moderegger, is an Assistant Professor at the Robinson Centre for Graphic Arts and Communication Design within CCNY’s Art Department and is director of Eelctronic Design and Multimedia (EDM) BFA Program. In his professional artistic work he collaborates with his wife, Franziska Lamprecht, in the influential and innovative design and multimedia combo, the eteam.

They are recent winners of a prestigous Creative Capital 2009 Award(Emerging Fields category) with their proposal Open Source Grabeland. The initial project award of $10,000 may qualify for additional funding up to $50,000 as the project progresses and the award also entitles the artists an in-depth program worth $25,000 to help build skills in fundraising, networking, marketing, and strategic planning. Previous awards include the New York State Council on the Arts new media and film Grant, a Harvestworks Artist Grant, an EYEBEAM Production Grant and an Experimental Television Center Finishing Fund.

Many of the eteam projects involve buying random pieces of land on eBay (a cultural experiment in its own right) and then activating the possibilities that are inherent in the site as the eteam envisage them, creating temporary realities and presenting such realities through video, websites and large-scale installations.

Their projects have been featured in exhibitions at the PS1, NY; MUMOK, Vienna, Austria; Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany; Momenta Art, Brooklyn; Vertexlist, Brooklyn; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain, the Nelson Atkin Museum, Art in General, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery and Sara Meltzer Gallery.

Videos by the eteam have been screened at the Transmediale, Berlin; the Marler Video Kunst Preis, Germany; Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Taiwan International Documentary Festival, Taipei; New York Video Festival; 11th Biennale of Moving Image, Geneva and other festivals in the US, Europe and Asia.

They are fellows of Yaddo and the Mac Dowell Colony and were residents at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council “Worldviews” program, which provided artists with studios inside the World Trade Center. 2007/8 they are resident artists at Smack Mellon and were selected for a commission by Rhizome.


Their work has been discussed widely media outlets such as the New York Times, Art Forum, Modern Painters and Issue Magazine. Their website is a wonderful mixture of design and artistic imagination.