Hey, I'm Simon Repp (he).
I work on media and systems with a
focus on ethics, simplicity and sustainability.

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This page presents excerpts of my practice, from the relevant and useful to the obscure and useless. Enjoy!
Faircamp is a static site generator for audio producers (2021-today)
Screenshot of three different mobile layouts of faircamp, showing different color themes
The Hyper 8 Video System is a static site generator for video (2023-today)
Feber is a simple, self-hostable group calendar (2024-today)
Screenshot of a extra: dark-themed calendar interface, overlaid with a splash screen
Eno is a data language for people of diverse cultural backgrounds and technical abilities. (2018-today)
A screenshot of an eno document, opened in a code editor
Sicuit is a minimalist password store built around a single GPG-encrypted plaintext file. (2020-today)
Good Form is an audio player for professional usecases, stuck in eternal alpha. (2019)
A screenshot of an application window displaying a large audio waveform
Elmyra is a blender-based visualization system I designed and developed at apertus (2015)
The play:vienna website I designed a few years back
Screenshot of the website, which features various slices of monochrome photographs of people
A generative barcode sytem from the magical realist theatre piece Questionology (2021)
A black and white A4 sheet in landscape orientation, featuring 6 barcodes with ample padding, arranged in the center. All barcodes are cropped against a large jagged outline going at right angles. Additionally there are small circular, stroked ornaments arranged in groups of up to three and cutting guides which divide the center of the sheet into 6 equally sized, rectangular areas.
A printable model I created for the apertus AXIOM Gamma project kick-off (2014)
Sketch of a tree from a daydream
Ink/marker sketch in pale blue and warm grey tones of a tree that seems to hug the viewer, in a very weird way
Bar sketch
An abstract blue pen scribble of a multi-floored interior space populated by very roughly indicated people, two tables with people seem to float way off somewhere in the air, in one corner of the paper the words "Goodbye Notes at a student's reunion" are vertically written but striked through
Sketches of boats and rails in an ocean
An A4 sheet with various pencil sketches of a person rowing a boat and rails on stilts terminating suddenly
A briefingroom concept for my local hackerspace created with Freestyle/Blender
A stylized rendering of an interior design concept for a room, featuring a blackboard, table and two couches
Sketches made during street game design
An ink sketch of a cake with 4 candles and the words R.I.P. written on it, behind there is a framed portrait of a sad looking figure, below there's a space of sorts enclosed by a fence or band, people have gathered around it and a text bubble says "Crunch! Crunch! Crunch! Crunchier than the others crunch!", there's more random notes and candles around the lower half of the sheet
One version of «Die Nacht stellt keine Fragen», an algorithmically constructed essayistic short film (2012)
Still from my diploma thesis «Die Nacht stellt keine Fragen» (2012)
A figure with a hat sitting on a metallic bench, seen from behind and through glass, straight ahead in the distance the sun is slowly setting
Still from my diploma thesis «Die Nacht stellt keine Fragen» (2012)
A cropped figure with a glossy suit and a coffee brewer in hand, hazy pink light coming from above
Sketch of an unimpressed droid
An ink and marker sketch of a bored-looking droid vaguely resembling Star Wars' General Grievous, most notably it has three tiny, spider-like arms on each side instead of one long one
Film still sketch
A paper sheet printed with german terms of service, on top of it an ink and marker panel showing a gas station with taps, a car, someone filling their tank, and against the sky a surreal element of what appears to be a moving girl on a swing hanging from the open tank station roof
Mixed sketch material
Various marker and ink sketches: A warmly clad man and woman holding up their hands, Laced boots, thumbnails of people standing around huge water tanks containing a bulbuous form
Sketches of mechanical things
Various pencil and ink sketches of a rider and their "mechanical mount", some notes with arrows ("floats", "pushed by robo-tentacles"), somewhere on the page it says "we won't ask" for no reason
Vienna Konzerthaus Sketch
Three figures standing in front of the Konzerthaus building in vienna, sketched with ink and marker on beige tinted paper
Sketch of a tattooed figure
An ink sketch of a frog-like creature with multiple eyes, its skin apparently tattooed with abstract shapes
Jingle for the Netzkinder podcast (2014)
Ink sketch
An ink sketch of an oilpunk-style trike with a round gas tank and airplane engines, a hooded rider on top, perspective grid superimposed
A piano composition from 2019
Silhouette-based banner design for a call a few years back
A grey-on-white silhouette rendering of an elephant running through a cityscape, on its back a person holding a kite
Poster for the Journey Vienna (2018)
A poster in black and white showing a water tank with a gummybear inside against the starry night sky and a low skyline of houses, titled "RETURN OF THE GUMMYBEARS" in horror-like, white capital letters
Comic panel recreation based on «Duck Tales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp» (2020)
A colorful Disney-style duck, the duck wears an ear ring and a turban and has their eyes close intently
Sketch with pencil, ink and marker
A tall, slim face with a pronounced nose and long, heavy hair, sketched in profile with pencil, ink and marker
«Transparency Poker», a conceptual poker game (2013)
6 playing cards depicting Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, Angela Merkel and Barack Obama as black jacks, queens and kings
Suzanne Strauss
The famous golden Johann Strauss statue in Vienna in close up, but the face is not Strauss' but the signature monkey head mascot of Blender
An early previsualization of one of the first ZEITDice , made with Freestyle/Blender (2014)
A rendering of a multi-cornered, sphere-like technical object, stylized as a line drawing
CGI sequence from Zoon Politikon . (CC-licensed assets by Qba/Rendars/Fluppi393/LucasKS) (2017)