25 years ago, during springtime, I was sitting in „Computer Lab3“ at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne surrounded by Silicon Graphics Indigo2, Octane & Onyx work stations, creating 3D-computer graphics & animation for my diploma work „menschensiedlung“ (“human settlement”). I was literally living in Lab3, doing 16hours-shifts every night & day in the Euclidean Space of Softimage 3,8.
While I was living on coffee, Snickers, render time and vertices, working in this brand-new electronic 3D space, I listened to one music album up and down and all of the time. It was music from an electronic space for listeners who worked in an electronic space.
It was Madonna’s „Ray of Light“.
This album helped me to bring my spirit into the machine.
Her music was my human flashlight in that vast, cold, dark and soulless electronic space of 3D computer graphics.
Her Ray of Light was my guiding beam to not get lost in the vast-vector-night-sky of those myriads of vertices that I created and connected so carefully and concentratedly into electronic spacetime.
It enabled me to still see and follow the constellation of my artistic vision in that techno-image, human-hostile 3D space. With every vertex that I placed onto that virtual night sky I was yearning to transform electronic space into a human settlement and thus colonizing it with human love and human effort for human art.
Now, 25 years later, I am listening 24/7 and up and down again to a just lately released & long overdue re-mix album:
It is Madonna’s „Veronica Electronica“.
The remix streamed back all of those thousands of vertices I created 25 years ago back into my eyes again.
I am FEELING the spirit of that past right now while I am listening to her re-mix.
And now – 25 years later – raytracing the light beams back into the light source of my own soul, I finally feel the tears streaming down my face.
Warmer than a Ray of Light.
Welcome to the Reset of the Real 