Joscha Jäger
Co-Director at Open Parliament TV
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJoscha Jäger is a creative technologist and researcher based in Amsterdam with over a decade of hands-on experience designing interactive media and interfaces. As founder and now Co-Director of Open Parliament TV, he builds tools to make parliamentary debates more transparent and accessible, blending civic tech with media design. His background spans academic research and production work at Merz Akademie and HPI, where he focused on hypervideo, semantic media archives, and novel interface concepts. Joscha has sustained independent practice through filmicweb since 2012, demonstrating a long-term commitment to open hypermedia and experimental web video. He combines practical product-building with scholarly rigor, often translating research prototypes into public-facing platforms. That dual track—academic depth plus persistent independent practice—drives his thoughtful, impact-oriented approach to creative technology.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Interface Design, Bachelor of Arts, Interface Design at Merz Akademie, Hochschule für Gestaltung, Kunst und Medien, Stuttgart, staatlich anerkannt
Github Skills (15)
multimedia10
browser10
overlays10
points10
hyperlink10
annotations10
des6
react5
nodejs5
live-preview5
socket-io5
javascript4
parsing4
data-repository3
collaboration3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
OpenHypervideo/FrameTrail
Mar 2016 - Sep 2021
FrameTrail is an open source software that let's you experience, manage and edit interactive video directly in your web browser.
Contributions:13 releases, 435 commits, 3 PRs in 5 years 6 months
annotationsbrowserhyperlinkadditionaloverlays
parliamentwatch/OpenParliamentVideo-Analysis
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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