i come pretty straight from visual art. started painting as teenager, did evening courses, studied at the art academy dresden and did my diploma for sculpture. then i was 2 years masterstudent, studied post graduate in stuttgart, paris and later moved to brooklyn, new york, where i attended a first computer graphics internship at the institute of technology, ny. when i came back to germany in 1994, i moved to berlin, right in the middle of the electronic music boom, i started pretty radically to work with computers (only), i knew I’d have to make art in the the same way as the music i was listening to was made. i spent another year learning about multimedia design at cimdata berlin. since then, none of the fascination of working with software and internet based networks has abated. i never felt any reason to move back to paints and traditional artistic work. programming itself became more and more indispensable. after learning lingo and actionscript, processing opened up a whole new world of basic and minimalistic…

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