Dragan Espenschied (born 1975) is an
8-bit musician and media artist who lives and works in
New York City
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. He studied communication design at the
Merz Academy in
Stuttgart, Germany
Stuttgart (; Swabian German, Swabian: ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, largest city of the States of Germany, German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fe ...
. Dragan started to develop software for
Atari Computers in 1991.
In 1995 he founded the 8-bit band "
Bodenständig 2000" 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. 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.
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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