Markus Schneider is CEO of "thismedia"-Media Consulting and Computer Vision for Architecture and Temporary Spaces. He has been working as consultant and curator for institutions, companies and projects, bridging culture and technology for over a decade. Studying fine arts at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt (with Martin Kippenberger) during the early nineties, he founded Lukas & Hoffmann Gallery in Berlin together with Nicolaus Schafhausen in 1992. Works of the represented artists, e.g. Kai Althoff, Olafur Eliasson or Carsten Höller can be found in notable museums and private collections. Various collaborative works including Audio/Video Installations (with Pietro Sanguineti), Audio/Visual Performances (e.g. with John Dekron), Media Projects (e.g. with Visomat Inc.) and Realtime Generative Processes (with Christan Riekoff as RISC) were realized for galleries, museums and festivals such as CTM/Transmediale, Berlin or SONAR, Barcelona. Commercial works such as audio reactive visual environments (with Bart Kresa) were realized for HBO (Golden Globes, Los Angeles) and Universal Studios (Osaka). Markus Schneider worked as manager for the french high-tech company JazzMutant, producer of the world's first multi-touch controller interfaces and was invited for lectures, courses and workshops a.o. at the Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen, the China Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Beijing, the Sichuan Fine Arts Institut Design Academy Chongqing and the School of Art & Design, Sapporo City University.
