my 30 years anniversary as visual artist

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.

@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 overblast your Screen projection into invisibility. Nowadays visual artist are asked to dimm the projection down a bit because its too bright! Thats 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 like a intenion to work in the field of audio visal symbiosis an inner wish to express myself with animation and visual projection. End of the 90thies my visual art gained momentum international and a lot of bookings followed. I worked during the week on my company projects and flew to gigs on weekend.

elgeko&tas FLOW 2018

Here is my last showreel 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, thats 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 !!!

and don´t forget