Designing the future of hypertext
Lead Product Designer at Kosmik

About me

Stef Kors is a Lead Product Designer at Kosmik and an experienced software engineer with expertise in React and SwiftUI. Before Kosmik, he worked at Beam, where he played a key role in building a native macOS internet browser. Stef was responsible for building a bridge between web content and native views for capturing web content. He implemented fast DOM parsing, high-performance SwiftUI views and an oembed proxy server. On the way there, he gained a deep understanding of WebKit source code.

He has released multiple side projects, like the color picker Affability, the GitLab menubar widget and the image editor Statement. He is also building Commitment, a new macOS Git client.

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2019
2018
Biometric Interface
For Yun Ingrid Eel's performance On Illegibility I built an Biometric Interface which shows RACE, SEX and AGE of the person via facial recognition. With this work Yun Ingrid Eel performed at Sonic Acts Academy 2018 in Amsterdam.
2017
Textual and morphological observation of comment sections
This zine is a series that exist out of the four parts: Texts, Taxonomy, Specimens & Community Guidelines. Showing the information — fragmentarily and outside of their original contexts, throughout the four parts — enables us to highlight the individual.
WPG Media
In a collaboration between the Hogeschool van Amsterdam's PublishingLab and WPG media our team is doing a project about storytelling, transmedia and the development of new ways of reading. We are working on how to maximize the reading experience and the attention accompanying a new book to appear.
Where the money is made, transaction counter
For Eline Benjaminsen's work "Where the money is made" I made a single page website that illustrates the speed of hi-frequency trading transactions. Exhibited at the graduation festival at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague and the Nederlands Fotografie Museum
Bynder Onboarding User Experience
User research and User Experience Design for the onboarding process of Bynder Orbit. While developing this feature I interviewed a large number of clients..
2016
SwiftPark
For ProRail we design the trainstation of the future. Co-Designing with the train commuters we developed SwiftPark, the easiest way to get from and to the trainstation.
Reminiscence room
Project developed in with the support of Jeroen Arendsen from Sherpa. Reminiscing of familiar experiences can be used as active therapy for clients who are in the early stages of dementia. Especially with clients who have mental disabilities, where dementia could start as early as 40 years old. Our team designed a workflow to capture, edit and organise the experiences in a way where the patients of Sherpa are involved in most of the steps.
Notes/Research App
In the spring of 2016 I was asked to design an application that could help students and designers keep track of their research and progress. Through design research I was able to determine that most students, artists and designers are using software that isn’t optimised for their way of working. For them I designed a digital notebook to collect and expand their research

Events, Presentations and Talks

Every once in a while it happens that my work gets viewed outside of the browser. Either at

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. Below is a list which breaks down the events per year. If you want to know more about the project, clicking the name will navigate you to a larger description. So far
2017 had 3 events
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2018 had 22 events
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2019 had 8 events
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2020 had 3 events
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2020

Book Fair
oneacre.online
VABF, Tokyo Virtual Art Book Fair
Tokyo, Japan
Talk
oneacre.online
FIBERxLAB111: WorldsofUrsulaLeGuin
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group Show
Poetics and Politics of Erasure
Our World - The World to Come
Glasgow, United Kingdom

2019

Talk
Volkskrant Open Redactie
Media van Morgen
Utrech, The Netherlands
Solo Show
oneacre.online
CATALOGUED OBJECTS, Bladr
Copenhagen, Denmark
Artist Talk
oneacre.online
Mark as Unread: Online Publishing as Artistic Practice with Cosmos Carl, Page Not Found
The Hague, The Netherlands
Group Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
Digital Dilemma, Bureau Europa
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Festival
Where the money is made, transaction counter
The Wind of Time, Lianzhou Foto
Lianzho, China
Group Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
Who’s in Control?, Fotodok
Utrech, The Netherlands
Festival
Biometric Interface
Rokolectiv Festival
Bucharest, Romania
Festival
Biometric Interface
Eclipsing Festival
Chicago, United States of America

2018

Book
Poetics and Politics of Erasure
Katamari Damacy: A Framework for Erasure
Sonic Acts Academy Reader
Duo Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
Where the money is made, Heden gallery
The Hague, The Netherlands
Group Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
My Practice My Politics, Stroom
The Hague, The Netherlands
Group Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
My Practice My Politics, Salone del Mobile
Milan, Italy
Festival
Where the money is made, transaction counter
Spaces of Flows, Krakow Photomonth
Krakow, Poland
Group Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
Canon Zilveren Camera Exhibition, Museum Hilversum
Hilversum, The Netherlands
Group Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
Hyper.Local., ESAD
Valanciennes, France
Artist Talk
Artificial Intelligence never has a headache
Grey Space in the Middle
The Hague, The Netherlands
Talk
Radio, Techno, Fossil
Het Schimmengebied on Radio Tonka 92.0 Den Haag FM
The Hague, The Netherlands
Artist Talk
Radio, Techno, Fossil
RADIO, TECHNO, FOSSIL, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Talk
Radio, Techno, Fossil
Radio Earch Hold, Serpentine Galleries
London, United Kingdom
Artist Talk
Radio, Techno, Fossil
Matters of Transmission on CoLaboRadio
Berlin, Germany
Festival
Radio, Techno, Fossil
Parallel Crossings for ARTEFACT
Leuven, Belgium
Book Fair
oneacre.online
Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial
Malmo, Sweden
Talk
oneacre.online
University of Amsterdam Labfest
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Festival
oneacre.online
Internet Yami-ichi, TivoliVredenburg
Utrecht, The Netherlands
Artist Talk
Publish or Perish!
DONE3, Foto Colectania Foundation
Barcalona, Spain
Installation
Publish or Perish!
Permanent installation, Foto Colectania Gallery
Barcalona, Spain
Group Show
Meaning Seeking Animals
Stedelijk BOOK!PUBLISH!PRINT, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Artist Talk
Meaning Seeking Animals
Alles Behalve de Inhoud: distributie, LeeszaalWest
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Artist Talk
Biometric Interface
Auto Italia
London, United Kingdom
Artist Talk
Biometric Interface
Sonic Acts Academy
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2017

Artist Talk
Poetics and Politics of Erasure
LhGWR
The Hague, The Netherlands
Group Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
Blurring the Lines, College of Art
Paris, France
Group Show
Where the money is made, transaction counter
Steenbergen Stipendium, Nederlands Fotomuseum
Rotterdam, The Netherlands