Andreas Steinkogler
Andreas Steinkogler has been a member of the VJ-crew Eye-Con since 2004 and worked for Pendulum, LCD Soundsystem and Alex Gopher, among others. Currently he is working on a documentary about the machinations of the music industry. Steinkogler lives in Vienna.
Personal website: http://www.andreas-steinkogler.at/
How to Bury a Legend

Between Commerce and Art

Live visualisation
In 2010 the visualist, DJ and filmmaker offered an insight into his multifaceted work with six examples of his artistic activities between the poles of music, video and visual art.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2010
Andreas Steinkogler was always interested in the connection between visual art and music. Around the millenium he starts to produce visual loops for own VJ-sets. His style orient itself to the industrial-pioneers of the late 70«s and early 80«s.
From 2003 on he«s visualizing several clubs in Vienna, 2004 he became a member of the well-known VJ-Crew Eye-Con. Due to his experimental approach he is invited to the most renowned culture-and musicfestivals in Austria, like the EqualEyes Festival, Urban Art Forms, Sound:frame, Spring Festival in Graz and Festivals in nearby countries.
Beside his regular occupation, where he is engaged for several film-productions and tv- stations, he also leaves his mark in the austrian film-szene. He is producing several musicvideos and shortmovies, which where shown on several filmfestivals in austria as well as Germany, Czech, Denmark and several other countries. The Opening of the Vienna Independent Shortfilmfestival (VIS) was musicaly and visually designed, in the course of the festival and the cultural programme for the european football championship 2008 a radio play got live visualized in a cinema.
At 2009 he visualized article 14 of the human rights charta for an exhibition, celebrating 60 years of the universal declaration of Human Rights. As a VJ he supports Acts like Pendulum, LCD Soundsystem, Peaches or Alex Gopher, as a DJ he leaves his mark in the electronic scene in vienna. At Presence, he works on his first feature-length Documentary about the worldwide music-scene.
