About me

Part of my live I have lived in an old factory somewhere in a forgotten part of town without water, electricity or gas. Since then I have earned a degree in General Literature at the Groningen University and I have worked as a web-editor for a major mobile phone company and now I am working as freelance designer in Berlin - but I am also doing some odd jobs to stay afloat like everyone else here in this city.

 

I like my Mac and my 20+ gigs of electro clicks and cuts loungy acid jazz (check out his Mexican musician named Murcof). I make computer-art using scans as brushes and sometimes I write (for those of you who know me as a writer: sorry, there is nothing here). I want to build computergames using the landscapes I create as backgrounds so people can wander around in them and get lost. Think Riven/Myst style combined with side-scrollers and top-view RPG perspective. (More about my thoughts on games can be found here.)

 

Until 9 months or so I lived in Groningen, the Netherlands in an old building that used to be hospital with 250 other people [more]. It used to be a squat but it is legit for quite a while now. The people who live here still do all the maintenance. Is this important? Maybe. I have lived in places like this almost all my life. So to me it is.

But last yearI have moved to Berlin, I work here, and I like it here. I do not know what this city will bring me, but who knows, I might stay and never return.

 

A friend of mine presented his first collection of poems to an audience not so long ago. He wrote to me: "My book is like toiletpaper during wartime to me. And even more important than that." Let my works be as important to me as his works are to him (and maybe even more so). And you know what? They are.

 

YuriGoul / Jeroen Goulooze