Born into the chain store despair of the great white people’s hatching ground called Long Island, Daniel Trattler escaped at  first chance and moved to big city New York and Chicago. He studied math, created performance art, did scientific experiments and made art zines before moving to Berlin in 1993. Wanting to start fresh he started working as a graphic designer and in 2000 he co-founded the agency eobiont. He also teaches at the HTW (Berlin University of Applied Sciences).