Alex Dragulescu, Art Code (digicult.it)

I found a detailed article on Alex Dragulescu, an artist recently feature in a snippet on wired.com (See: Visualizing Viruses wired.com).

"Alex Dragulescu: In the university I studied Cinema and Photography, Art and Art History. I actually shot only two films on celluloid. My first was a silent film shot on a 16mm camera used in World War II. The second one was a hand-drawn animated film shot with a 16mm animation stand. After that, I taught myself computer animation. I realized I could work much faster by myself with just the computer. Plus I had this nice feeling as if I was still working in my sleep, since I would leave the computers rendering at night. Maya and Flash were the tools that transitioned me towards the procedural side of animation and design. After graduating I worked for two years as an interactive designer/developer in Internet companies. There, I started using web programming and relational databases. In graduate school, the transition towards the procedural was complete"

You can read the full article on digicult.it:

http://www.digicult.it/digimag/article.asp?id=680