(Austria, 1964)
Artist and telecommunications engineer. Graduated from the Institute for Telecommunication Engineering and Electronics in Graz. Since 1990, he has worked as a freelance artist. In 1991 he founded X-Space, a team for carrying out interdisciplinary projects. Within this framework, multiple installations and performance projects have been carried out in the fields of interaction, robotics and telecommunications. He is also responsible for the conception of several projects for radio, television and networking, as well as the organization of Horizontal Radio, a global project for radio and networking that took place in 1995. Since 1995 he has been artistic director of the Ars Electronica Center, and together with Christine Schöpf, co-artistic director of the Ars Electronica Festival.
His projects and installations have been exhibited at: EXPO '92 Seville, Kunsthalle Bonn '92, Biennale Venedig '93, ISEA '93 Minneapolis, Interactive Media Festival Los Angeles '94, Digital World Conference Los Angeles '94, SIGGRAPH '94 Orlando, ISEA '94 Helsinki, Dutch Electronic Art Festival '94 Rotterdam, Steirischer Herbst '94, '95, Ars Electronica '95, SIGGRAPH '95, Los Angeles, ISEA '95 Montreal, Frankfurter Buchmesse '95, New York Digital Salon '95, Biennale Venedig '97, Millennium Dome London 2000 and SIGGRAPH '02 San Antonio. He has been editor of the Ars Electronica catalogs since 1996.
He participated in Medialab Madrid with the exhibition “Digital Transit” (February 8 to April 2, 2006). One of the four exhibitions that made up the Digital Culture environment in 2006. This great exhibition proposed a journey through the interconnections between art, science, technology and society. Transiting through permeable spaces that foster productive interferences between diverse imaginaries, concepts and practices. As a whole, a transdisciplinary view was proposed through the works of more than 60 artists, understood as a way of interpretation, exploration and participation in the complex web of relationships that articulates contemporary culture. Digital Transit thus constituted a communication space that connected current computer and telecommunications technologies with visual, sound and performing arts, architecture and urban planning, science, education, citizen participation and the environment. Digital Transit described an environment woven together by processes and projects that take place at different scales and in different contexts: whether in a bacterial culture, a human body, an urban fabric, a telecommunications network or an ecosystem. Thus, a systemic and global vision was proposed that circulated from genetics to urban planning or from computing to education, passing through the new digital communities that are articulated on the Internet. The exhibition brought together some of the most outstanding projects of digital culture, from the Austrian and international sphere, awarded in recent years at the prestigious international Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Co-production: Futurelab (Ars Electronica Center) and MediaLabMadrid (Conde Duque Cultural Center) Austria at ARCO'06. Commissioners: Manuela Pfaffenberger and Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica, Linz) and Karin Ohlenschläger and Luís Rico (MediaLabMadrid).
