Dragan Espenschied (born 1975) is an
8-bit musician and media artist who lives and works in
New York City. He studied communication design at the
Merz Academy Merz may refer to:
* Merz (art style), a synonym for the more common term Dada
* Merz (musician), a British electro-folk singer
* Merz (surname)
* Merz Apothecary, a historic German health care store in Chicago
* Merz & McLellan, a British electric ...
in
Stuttgart, Germany. Dragan started to develop software for
Atari Computers
Atari () is a brand name that has been owned by several entities since its inception in 1972. It is currently owned by French publisher Atari SA through a subsidiary named Atari Interactive. The original Atari, Inc., founded in Sunnyvale, Calif ...
in 1991.
In 1995 he founded the 8-bit band "
Bodenständig 2000
Bodenständig 2000 is an electronic music group from Germany, founded in 1995 by Dragan Espenschied and Bernhard Kirsch. They are the self-proclaimed pioneers of the home computer folk music movement.
In 1999 they released their debut album "M ...
" together with Bernhard Kirsch. They got signed on the label
Rephlex in London, and started touring throughout Europe and the USA. Together with media activist Alvar Freude he worked on projects like ''Freedom Phone'', ''Omni-Cleaner'', ''Assoziations-Blaster'' and ''insert_coin''.
In 2003 he started working with the net.art pioneer
Olia Lialina
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. Their most famous works are ''Zombie and Mummy'', ''Online Newspapers'', ''Frozen Niki'', ''With Elements Of Web 2.0'' and ''Midnight''.
Since 2014, he is leading the Digital Art Conservation Program at
Rhizome
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.
External links
Dragan Espenschied Life And Times, weblogAssoziations-BlasterBodenständig 2000Contemporary Home Computing
References
German male musicians
German artists
1975 births
Living people
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