Dragan Espenschied
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Dragan Espenschied is an 8-bit musician and media artist who lives and works in Stuttgart, Germany. He studied communication design at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart. Dragan started to develop software for Atari Computers in 1991.
In 1995 he founded the 8-bit band "Bodenständig 2000
" together with Bernd 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.
In 1995 he founded the 8-bit band "Bodenständig 2000
Bodenständig 2000
Bodenständig 2000 is an electronic music group from Germany, founded 1995 by Dragan Espenschied and Bernhard Kirsch. They are the self-proclaimed pioneers of the home computer folk music movement....
" together with Bernd 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
Olia Lialina
Olia Lialina is a pioneer Internet artist and theorist as well as an experimental film and video critic and curator...
. Their most famous works are Zombie and Mummy, Online Newspapers, Frozen Niki, With Elements Of Web 2.0 and Midnight.