Juergen Moritz Austria. 1963 born in Heidelberg. 1983 studies in media communication at the University of Klagenfurt. 1989 studies in painting, graphics and communication- theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 1992 guest at the Free Academy Moskow. 1994 artist in residence at the Studio di Movimento Florence. 1996 start of a cooperation with the musician Christian Fennesz and the electroniclabel Mego. 1997 graduate with honorable mention at University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Founding of the media art formation monoscope together with Timo Novotny, Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Wolfgang Hammer. 1998 artist in residence with monoscope at the Klangturm St. Pölten dept. Image and soundstudies of audiovisual media and media science at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. 1999 founding of the >apparat - group for research in audiovisual tendencies<. First products - the videocompilations >austrian abstracts I und II<, the CD-Rom ../=karoushi and the net art project v ++, together with the cultural server the thing guest curator for the Austrian Filmfestival >Diagonale<. 2000 artist in residence stay at the projectspace >point B< in New York. 2001 lecturer at the institute of young arts in Oslo, lecturer in audiovisual media at the Summer Academy Salzburg, guest curator for the Norwegian Shortfilm Festival, lecturer at the sound and art - symposium >motlyd<, Bergen, member of the int. research program on criminal information, ERBAN Nantes.