Markus Wintersberger (b. 1968, Krems an der Donau, Austria) studied under Prof. Bernhard Leitner at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He has worked as a freelance media artist since 1995 and has taught experimental media production at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten since 2006, where he heads the master class Experimental Media. In 2004, he founded the media art label medienwerkstatt006 and has received numerous awards, including the Lower Austrian State Prize for Media Art (2009) and the WSE Prize (2013). His projects span video mapping, media façades, and interdisciplinary music theatre, and he has collaborated with artists such as Andrea Nagl, Karlheinz Essl, Eberhard Kloke, Hannes Raffaseder, Chris Noelle, and Marcus Josef Weiss. Since 2017, he has co-led the FWF-funded research project Wearable Theatre and currently directs Intermedia Motion Tracking in AR/VR (IMTA) at the Institute for Creative Media Technologies (IC\M/T), working closely with choreographer Andrea Nagl. Under the label nagl~wintersberger, the duo has created numerous art-digital projects, most recently XR [noe] | human nature (2022), Randnotizen (2023), and smART Data BRIDGE Krahuletz (2024). Wintersberger is artistic director 'DIGITAL' of the Vdonaukanal project in Vienna and curator of the Lucid Dreams festival at Bühne im Hof, St. Pölten. His work explores experimental media aesthetics and challenges conventional perceptions of reality through interdisciplinary, research-driven art. Wintersberger lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria.