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.
WoW - Fantastisch - abgefahren gut ... !!!
Für Dich wäre ne Oculus Rift auch noch ne coole Sache ... da gibts VJ Software mit der du ganze Landschaften , usw für deine Videos gestalten kannst . oder TiltBrush mit der du zu der Mucke abgefahrene Pics malen kannst ... nur mal so ein Gedanke. Hab da schon Videos gesehen die total abgedreht sind :-) :-)
Hallo @yoogyart. Ja TILTbrush ist ziemlich powervoll mittlerweile und noch kein ende in sicht. Muss mich aufraffen, mir das alles auch noch einzuverleiben. . . . man bräuchte echt 7 Leben als visual artist :) .... hab da noch was für Dich. Könnte Dich interessieren. Denke so manche Deiner "hornelfen" sollten dort eingesandt werden und am Contest teilnehmen. finde ich :)
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Wäre doch wunderbar zu sehen wenn eine davon ein gaming-rig bekommt und zum Leben erwacht!!!!!
You gotta be careful not to culturally appropriate my feelings next time, like teh way you stole this poor mans culture to promote crypto currency
tsk tsk tsk @supermeatboy might call the cultural police
I hope this Polynesian chief received his royalty check for the reward payout? You can always send him the steem on the astral blockchain
up + re of course
we have the same antennas...The better you look the more you see with greetings from Paris and wishing you a Merry Everything and a Happy Always!
This is awesome. I also do visuals at festivals. Never anything as big. Usually just stick to a single projector and a wall or some kind of basic art installation. I pray that I'm able to be doing it like this 25 years or so from now
Are you doing anything for the Steem Festival in Peru?
Cool man. I started small too and showed some persistence, if you really love what you do, sucess will fade in with time. Good luck hope to see you blasting somewhere in the future. I can´t come to Peru this year but I think about catching the next STEEMFIESTA date to come.
Awesome stuff, I had no idea! Commodore Amigas...that takes me back. Had an Amiga 500 back in the day. Thanks for sharing.
Respect. I didn't know you were Austrian. You did Universo Paralelo, wow, I wonder if you could share the adventure that was actually getting to the location of the event. Everyone I've met who has gigged or just attended always has a crazy story to tell about how they made it to the party.
Cheers
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Oh yes there are plenty of stories to tell. From accidents with drivers, to love affairs with beautiful artist host. And I can really tell some strange stories, like Celebra Brasil 2001 were I was sittting on the money physically all night on top of huge construction heavily secured by security, when the organizers freaked out of being robbed in their office. Was in brasil 8 times between 2000 and 2012. three times Universo paralello 09 10 11....It was a wonderfull time and you are right I could share some details in later posts, just need to mount the right harddiscs from back then to find all the photos and clips in original.
Wow, indeed Brasil (and I see you also learnt to spell it with "s") is indeed a place out of this world. The people, specially the wonderful ladies, the food, and the music experiences are unforgettable. So you were sitting literally on the money?, hahahaha that's funny indeed (and I believe scary at some point!). I gigged about 6 years all over Brasil but I could never make it to Universo Paralelo. Still on my bucket list, though. Just watched your Vimeo reel, amazing to see the progress through the years. The inherent old-school look of it is very appealing nowadays, I’d say.
Again, much respect!.
Cheers
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Woot! Cheers to 30 more glorious years! Sikk works @elgeko.
Wishin you another 30+ years my friend!
.....thanks mate for the good wishin ! lol
Glorious 30 years+cheers on the occasion of anniversary and love the art.
Thank you and Have a great day.
Hi @elgeko :) impressive accomplishments :)
Thank you for the sweet feedback, you and Matt are right in the middle of big accomplishments too, great new technologies to be creative, to create new things and realize new ideas. Because you both love what you do and thats the best formula for big accomplishments.
Thank you @elgeko. You should be a motivational speaker, I feel inspired by your kind words :)
OMG, this is really amazing and fascinating. I am also an artist and I really enjoy the animations and motion graphics. But these live shows I have never heard before, I am really interested to learn them. Actually in India, we do not have much exposure to these things.
Welcome to steem fellow Trancer!
I do live psychedelic from hardware, jams, tracks , videos etc. Upvoted you bro.
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really wonderfull you get my upvte !
Congratulations, you are really a pioneer and you have worked very hard to become who you are. All this is the reward for your effort. Both the photos and the videos are great. Long life so that you continue to amaze everyone with your show.
wow you're amazing, it's so bright avant-garde, you see everything from another planet. I hope someday to see this live. 🙋😄⚡🍀📊📝 @elgeko congratulations
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lovely write for art
thank you for sharing @elgeko
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It is very good when you start doing some work and people do not know about it, it is very difficult, but when people know about it gradually, then it will be even more interesting to do it. is.Happy 30 Years as a Visual Artist
Goodness Gracious, that was a visual treat to the eyes!!
Wow..that's a great inspiration for all other persons who are willing to do such creative work..
Very nice work man. Impressed.
What impressive sets of lights and really incredible images, keep going friend.
Visual artist , never heard about , however 30 years means 3 decade, you have almost given your life to this career, all the best
amazing!!!
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That's amazing!! Congratulations, I'm sure many more milestones lie ahead
that's amazing!
This is so awesome:))
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Great years to come.. Keep it going!!
You're really great artist, man!
You really do have an exceptional eye for the art! It's like a feast to my eyes seeing your amazing visual masterpieces. Congratulations on your 30th year and may you continue to inspire others to do well on their chosen craft! :)
Thank you James for your kind and motivating feedback.
You are clearly a very talented person that's why you reached 30 years doing your craft.. To me that's really impressive. Congratulations! :)
Great work here 💪 amazing
This is so Inspiring. Computergraphic adds a completely different dimension to live performances and concerts. Remove it and the entire feel of the event changes. You are surely a visual grandpa :)
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That looks cool men. I wish I was there when the party begun. It looks fun
I don't know that you really love art so much bro!
What a wild ride. Congrats on 30 years!
Wonderful 30 years! proud of you bro!
amazing! this is really innate talent. keep it up!
whoa! art is art! congrats on your anni, man!
Fantastic! Great work! Congrats!
What a great artist! Congratulations!
Wonderful work over the years! Kudos!
Very nice! You deserve it buddy!
Admirable! Congratulations!
You're an amazing artist! Hope you have more great stuff in the years to come..
mind blowing stuff, really digging your work, congrats!
asombroso!!!
WOW! totally cool! Congratulations!!!
Wow! Congrats! What an impressive work. I also worked a lot at visuals, in the late 80's, maybe at the same time as you :)
With my team, we worked some visuals with various amiga demos - do you renmember small discettes 720kb? we have amiga 1200, videomixer, genlock, two video recorders, video projector and we projecting various sources to the artists. We use Dpaint also and Scala :)
ha, really prehistoric compared to what is now...check this, one of uploaded to GoogleVideo (anyone remember?) if you dont'mind, it's mix made with A1200+SVHSPanasonic camera, combined with ProTracker modules for sound and projected to the dancer and again mixed...
Ha, it's really fine to find someone who has the similar roots. Congrats, again :)
Congrats on your 30th year as a visual artist! You've got an impressive set of photos here.
great post! :)
W.O.W! just wow! undeniably 30 years experience says it all. congratulations, man! looking forward to more amazing years as visual artist guru! excellent work that is very inspiring indeed. count my vote!
amazing! the photos just simply say it all. superb artist! bet you had a 30 colorful, productive and remarkable years then. congratulations!