The Tellerrandomizer
2026After 15 years as a visitor of the beyond tellerrand conference, I received this email from organizer Marc: “Hey, wouldn’t you like to do something for my conference?” Let me think for a sec… yeah, OF COURSE? Turns out Marc mainly had an Instagram post in mind that I had shared after beyond tellerrand 2025—an offshoot of my little Artifactor side project.
If you’ve never been to #btconf, there’s this unusual project called Audio-Sketch-Notes. Musician and crowd favorite Tobi “Baldower” Lessnow stands on stage with his electronica setup, records the speakers, and then remixes his tracks live using speech samples from the talk that just ended.
In essence, I built a visual counterpart to this. During the talk, photos are taken, quotes are captured, and everything is combined in Kirby CMS with some basic data about the speaker and the session. The data is then assembled into a presentation in a deliberately chaotic / visually engaging way (depending on your tolerance for graphic design).
The drawn lines and the use of different fonts for each letter in the names are inspired by the outstanding generative 2026 CI created by The Master of Generative Data Art, Brendan Dawes.
Why “Tellerrandomizer”? Because almost everything in the presentation is driven by random values. In the background sits a whole pool of textures, graphics, masks, and fonts, with their styling—just like in the Artifactor—controlled simply via the php rand(). As simple as it is effective. There are a few videos on Instagram. And this is what Marc has to say about our collab.
Not only is the Kirby CMS community inseparably linked to beyond tellerrand—and Kirby the only CMS I still use today—it’s also perfect when you want to organize data in a structured way without any fuss and output it flexibly. On top of that, the Panel (backend) works flawlessly on a smartphone, which was essential for this project.
