Christian Bauer
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Christian Bauer (Born November 4, 1966 in Innsbruck, Austria) is project manager for multimedia artist André Heller in Hellers Vienna-based company Artevent, where Bauer headed up the successful 'Presentation of the Germany bid for the 2006 FIFA World Cup' project. Bauer has been involved in the management of cultural projects for Artevent since 1998, he is co-founder of the official Artistic and Cultural Programme for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, co-designed and managed projects such as the 'Football Globe - 2006 FIFA World Cup', the 'Football Globe Germany', the 'Poetry Machine', based on an idea and co-produced by poet and author Hans Magnus Enzensberger, as well as other projects.
Bauer studied at the Higher Technical Institute for Communications Engineering and Electronics in Innsbruck and was an early pioneer and entrepreneur in the fields of 3D computer graphics and Virtual Reality. The 1993 'Virtual Reality Vienna Conference', which was initiated and organised by Bauer, was the first European conference on this subject and the parallel 'Virtual Polis 1.0' event, organised with Prof. Carl Eugene Loeffler (Carnegie Mellon University), demonstrated the first worldwide 3D Virtual Community.
Bauer is an honoured 'Oldtimer' at the oldest (established 1985) 2D online community The Well (chris@well.com) and received a Recognition of Service Award from the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He teaches at the University of Innsbruck (at the Urban Planning and Regional Planning Institute and at the Institute for Experimental Architecture); technology consultant to the European Commission. Father; resident in Salzburg and Vienna.
