Transforming Ideas into Projects: We are Creativity Consultants, Art Directors and Project Developers

Christian Bauer is an ICT specialist with a focus on Computer Graphics and AI, Future Internet, Future Emerging Technologies and digital Social Networks, as well as he is a leading member in Europe’s Creative Industries having worked for many leading brands as a Creative Consultant and being project manager since 1998 for Austrian artist André Heller.

He was a pioneer in 3D Online Communities, Virtual Reality and Web3D/VRML technologies and conducted the first Virtual World in 1993. He is a book author and cooperated with many known organizations in this domain, like the NASA Ames Research Center (Intelligent Mechanisms Group), the Harvard University (Graduate School of Design), the MIT Media Lab, the German Aerospace Establishment (DLR), several Fraunhofer Institutes and with companys like Silicon Graphics, Cosmo Software, Sense8, IBM Germany, the Ars Electronica Center and others.

Christian Bauer was 10 years (1996-2005) a member of Siggraph’s International Committee (New Orleans, Los Angeles, Orlando, San Antonio, San Diego and Los Angeles), the world’s largest event on Computer Graphics and he was Chair of VRML’99, Co-Chair of VRML’98 both ACM-sponsored conferences, Co-Organizer of the Virtual Reality World ’95 (Stuttgart), Initiator of the Virtual Reality Vienna ’93 (Vienna) and others. Christian Bauer is a cofounder and cooperating with the World Summit Award, an initiative within the framework of the United Nation’s World Summit on the Information Society. Christian Bauer was from 1998 to 2002 an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, the Institute for Urban Design and Regional Planning, constructing virtual cities and teaching new media techniques. He had teaching assignments from 2003 till 2006 at the Institute of Experimental Architecture and 2012 at the University of Applied Sciences in Vienna at the Institute for Renewable Energy among others.

Since 1998 Christian Bauer managed primarily projects for Austrian artist André Heller (see http://www.andreheller.com) and was leading several other Creative Agencies combining arts and culture with technology, working for organisations like Red Bull, Swarovski, Bertelsmann, Daimler, Porsche, FIFA, IKEA, VELUX, the City of Vienna, the United Nations, the Federal Government of Germany, the Government of the Emirate Sharjah (their investment organization Shurooq) in the UAE, the Buckminster Fuller Institute, WWF, Greenpeace and others. Results were the realization and extension of highly successful projects like the Swarovski Crystal Worlds (http://kristallwelten.com), the House of Music in Vienna (http://hausdermusik.com), Al Noor Island (http://alnoorisland.ae) and other large cultural and arts projects. Christian Bauer was also one of the leaders in the creative domain by cowriting the Impulsprogramm, the first federal initiative to support creative industries in Austria in 2003, later renamed to Creative Austria.

Christian Bauer works since 1996 as an expert, evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission (Framework Programmes 4-7 till Horizon 2020) with a focus on „Future Internet“ and „Future Emerging Technologies“ and has completed jobs in Brussels, Luxembourg, London, Glasgow, Paris, Angouleme and other places. Christian Bauer is holding a „Recognition of Service Award“ from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) located in New York.

The latest and newst area of activity is Art Sales Support: We have specialized in art pieces (mostly paintings) that have previously gone unrecognized in their field, and try to turn them into very profitable assets. We establish a lobbying process in which we research everything around the art piece, establish a website, make Wikipedia entries, have experts make expertise on the artwork and finally make the connection to auction houses. A central tool in this process is the validation of the art piece by AI methods. Our AI methods deliver statistical data, not influenced by human opinion, which allows us to discover unrecognized art works and validate them. We are currently working on an Raphael project as well as on other known masters and are just now developing a tool for validating Stradivaris.

Christian Bauer’s work was always very international. He has traveled 57 countries and has worked project related in 45 countries (as of 2022).

Recent projects:

• Projects related to supporting art sales.
• Various activities for André Heller.
• Business Development for Planet Live – a Realtime Environmental Informationssystem we invented.
• Projects in discussion in the United Arab Emirates.