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Pipilotti Rist Author

Pipilotti Rist was born in 1962 in Grabs, Switzerland. She was educated in commercial art, illustration, photography and audio-visual communications in Vienna and Basel. She has been working as an artist since 1986. She has also been working as a graphic computer operator for various industrial video studios and was a member of the music band 'Les Reines Prochaines', doing concerts, performances and CD-recordings between 1988 and 1994. She lives and works in Switzerland. Anders Guggisberg was born in 1966 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. He is a musician and artist and has been working with Pippilotti Rist since 1995, adding matching music to her installations and videos. Together with Andres Lutz he formed the artist duo 'Lutz & Guggisberg' in 1996. He lives and works in Zurich. Roland Widmer is a Swiss musician, sound-designer and DJ-artist. He is one half of the techno/elctro-duo 'Die Galoppierende Zuversich' alongside Marcel Ackerknecht who have been playing together since 2001.