my 30 years anniversary as visual artist

edited May2021

Time flies by. It's really been 30 years since my first Computergrafic live performances. Back then, I was live painting animation on two amiga 2000 with deluxe paint and a videomixer, abstract animations fitting to the beat of the music played by the DJ. The first bookings in my career were in the in the legendary CLUB MAVO in Vienna in may 1989.
I have studied the brain and the interpolation of data overflow in the human brain and from this I developed x-trax visuals, visuals which fit to a wide range of music/bpm without need to change in speed. From June 1994 to June 1997 36 X-Trax each 60 minutes were produced and a VHS edition of 50 was distributed to the subscribers, mostly clubs, discos and alike, none of them was an art collector.

@elgeko at work, Universo Paralello 2009

It was hard at the beginning, no one had any idea what I tried to do. the word visuals was not born back then, this new word was defined years later. Party organizers just did not understand what it's all about when I talked about computer live projection. The beamer at that time were also extremely unwieldy and heavy and extremely faint compared to today's machines.

You had to be accepted by the light guy otherwise he would over blast your Screen projection into invisibility. Nowadays visual artist are asked to dim the projection down a bit because its too bright! That´s wonderland for visual artists nowadays. Likewise, the resolution of the beamer was just 720x576 pixels. This kind of visual art I did beside running my company Digital Canvas later called Fast Forward group digital media Gmbh, because you hardly could live of making visuals alone. It was my deep intention to work in the field of audio visual symbiosis, an inner wish to express myself with animation and visual projection. Using a 4 channel videomixer and 4 input sources I was able to follow the beat and tell stories with the videomixer. At the end of the 90s my visual art gained momentum and a lot of international bookings followed. I worked during the week on my company projects and flew to my visual art mix gigs on weekend.

elgeko&tas FLOW 2018

Here is my last show reel before I decided to stop the company and focus on show and performance and enjoy life more instead of 24/7 workohol, company stress, executing projects without heart or soul. I wanted to be free to do what I want to do, art. That´s what I do since then.

Many planes, many locations followed and it was the time of big gigs all over the globe.
I did shows in Japan, Brasil, Russia, Morroco, Israel, Germany, France, Ibiza, South Africa and many other countries. my biggest audiences were Ars Electronica, Klangwolke Linz 1999 with over 100.000 viewers, followed by XXXperience 10th anniversary near Sao Paulo with 65000 Party guests.

The Boom Festival in Portugal in the first 14 years was like a home turf. I made visuals in 2000, 2004 we produced a Festival DVD 2004 and two years later the 2nd DVD : We are one! 2006.

In 2008 we created a audiovisual performance spectacle as the last closing act for the main floor

The Psynema show Boom Festival 2008. I am the guy on the left :)

here you see the start of the show

and here is a impression of our XXXperience show in Brazil

I am now 54 years old and do just a few shows every year but it is still a lot of fun and my soul is still with my art, still learning new things every day.

@elgeko at COSMIC SPACE DISCO new years eve 2012

Psynema show WUK, Vienna 2010

My next fixed bookings are around christmas time in Vienna and Switzerland.

Spacerace, Zurich 2017

30 years is a long time, guess I am the visual grandpa now !!!

visual art since 1986.
art performances, installations & exhibitions:
1987 post atomare Simulation , Graz Austria
1987 Ars Electronica entry "blue rooms" Amiga1000 dpaint I
1988 Videoinstallation Kasematten, Graz
1989/90 1st Visualist painting live on two Amiga2000 computer Club Mavo Vienna, Austria
1991 live digital painting Vernissage at Kulturhaus Linz/Austria 1991. pictures were painted infront of audience.
1992 Expo Sevilla, first multi lingual multi screen media installation for the for Austrian Industries.
1994 -1997 X-trax, monthly visuals tape release, limited edition for discos/clubs/events in Austria . 36x60minutes
1995 XXX Gasometer 9h visual art live mix
1995 technisches Museum Clubbing Vienna
1997 Club Shambala Stadtpark Meierei Vienna
1999 XXX Gazometer dualhead fullnight visual pingpong mix with Fritz Fitzke
2003 dvd release "Optical Matrix" collection of audio visual art ,
2004 Optical Matrix full night show format I, II and III St. Petersburg, Russia,
2004 Artcore 05, open source, Gallery Artcore Paris participant and
2004 Boom Festival main stage visual installation made of 330 white umbrellas + DVD production
2006 Boom Festival "Banana art project" and DVD Boom 06 "We are one"
2009 Pooool artist of the month: Exhibition & release Banana TV art DVD Museumsquartier Vienna
2010-2017 diverse visual performances around the world mostly for music festivals.
other achievements:
1992-2005 CD and founder of Fast forward group digital media gmbh: digital media production, product design, stage design, and development of „mediaskin“ technique in cooperation with architects. References: BMW, Mercedes, Audi, VW, Steyr, Suchard, CocaCola, Bank Austria, CAiB, Girocredit, Uniqua, Telekom Austria, Mobilkom Austria, Jet2web, Palmers, and many more.
musiclips: Falco, Unique II, Tosca, Dino Psaras, Etnica, SBK/Tarsis, Element, Psoi, Ololiqui, Skazi, Infected Mushroom, Electric Universe, Space Tribe, GMS, Deedrah, Koxbox, U-recken and others

main stage full night visual art live mix:
Vision Quest Tokyo, Universo Paralello Brasil, XXXperience Brasil, Boom Festival, Paradise Festival, Freedom Festival, Ozora Festival, Rhythms of peace, Soulclipse and many more

"The Psynema" audiovisual DVJ sets together with Dj Buzz-T (Sebastian Rost) , performed in 80 countries between 2002 and 2012
press feedback:
"most versatile Visualist" (cosmic.ag vienna,2007) „godfather of vj-ing“ (arteTV,france 2002).

after recovering from serious health issues, I live a more quiet life surrounded by forest and have now time to focus on NFT and crypto art, restore and compile my "best of" visual art history and also create new art with the latest tools.

expect a diverse mix of rare historic visual animation loops and new art involving the latest technologies, including VR3D and AI assisted techniques and in addition collaborative art projects.