Free arts software: Satlisca and Malisca
River cruises in Europe – particularly on the Rhine and Danube – are growing in popularity. However, unlike tourists who are just looking to relax and let the landscape drift by, Viennese photo and video artist Michael Aschauer succeeds in capturing the cultural landscapes and habitats along major rivers from various perspectives and thus provides distinctive views of these rivers with a high recognition factor.
In doing so, Aschauer – armed with free image editing software, which he developed himself for this purpose – also transforms a rather monotonous, sedate-looking panorama of these rivers into something more exciting by concisely portraying the activity on the river with its different facets, viewed by ship and satellite and sometimes over distances of more than several thousand kilometers.
The Artist
Michael Aschauer [1], was born in Austria's Styria region in 1977 and has been regarded as a photo and video artist of international repute for more than 15 years. After studying digital art and visual media design in Vienna, he has demonstrated his prowess with numerous works and publications.
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