Google Earth, Second Life, the XBOX and Playstation are not the first instances of virtual worlds that allow us to escape »real life«.
What about the worlds we create inside our heads? And what is the relationship between those and what we experience directly? Where are they and what do those paradises and hells on Earth look like in the fantasies that manifest themselves in digital representations?
Markus Hanzer
Markus Hanzer’s path took him from art to political illustration, via theatre to television, then via design management to marketing, writing, researching and mediating. Among the companies he has worked for are ARD, Das Erste, ZDF, RBB, NDR, ORF, 3sat, SAT.1, ATV, Phoenix, Deutsche Bank, Bertelsmann, Allianz, Telekom Austria, bwin,…
