Biography

Born 1959 in Innsbruck/Austria, lives in Vienna and Paris. After attending Innsbruck's Kunstgewerbeschule, he moved to Vienna and studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste (l semester). Since then Peter Kogler has lived as a freelance artist and ranks among the young talents of the Austrian Arts scene. As a draughtsman he is interested in live use of the computer since 1984 for artistic purposes. Peter Kogler's drawings and computer works were exhibited in renowned art galleries in Innsbruck, Vienna, Basel, Cologne, Hamburg, New York and at the Venice Biennale in 1986.

Titles of the works entered for Prix Ars Electronica '87:
1 "You Hun", computer animation, 3.000, Paris 1987
2 "Orange", computer graphic, Paris 1987
The works were realized on the Commodore AMIGA computer.