The Mouse and the Contact Pen draw and paint the upright image in the place of chalks and brushes.
Energy in the place of matter. I do, as if I were drawing on a surface and just push the bottons, the stream of the image appearing on the screen beneath. It's fascinating to know that your immaterial image rests in the disk's memory. The transparency is taken off the screen and hands itself on to the hardcopy. Within myself dots, lines, areas, plasticity and space are also feeling the working medium computer, the calculation. The computer image as an individual field of energy reaches the spectator through a network. The memory makes the network-user his own museum director. The evolutionary impact of computerization outdoes the invention of oil painting. Never the Arts were a re-production, but a game with spirit and emotion, they ARE spirit and emotion. The new image, inspired by the computer, is in the air in the most proper sense of the word. (J. Jascha)

Technical background:

The graphic “Anfang und Mutation” was produced on a Genigraphic; software: Genigraphic Paint System and Vector System. “Dreiecksfindung” was made on a Maclntosh 11 with the MacPaint programme. “Einräumen” was realized on an AVL Starburst with the Starburst and Artgraphic software.

Johann Jascha, born 1942 in Mettmach/Upper Austria. Lived in Salzburg from 1946–1962, studied in Vienna from 1963 at the Academy of Fine Arts. Diplomas for Painting (1967), for Medal Coining, Small Sculpture and Relief Art (1975), for Drawing (1976). Johann Jascha is a very versatile artist. Numerous actions and mimic appearances in Austria and Germany. Since 1970 “Crying Actions” in Vienna, Linz and Munich. 1970–1973 actions together with the “Salz der Erde”-architectural group. Since 1971 many commissions (Art in Public Space) for the City of Vienna, University of Salzburg etc. In 1972, Johann Jascha presents his “One Man Theatre” in Graz. Several times Chairman of the Symposia for Contemporary Art in Upper Austria. Several prizes and grants: 1974 Theodor Körner Award, Vienna. 1977 Austrian State Grant. 1985 Grant for Rome. 1986 Cross of Honour for Science and Art (Republic of Austria). Since 1988 Vice-President of the “Federal Conference of Fine Artists of Austria”. Working stay America, Africa, Nepal, Haiti and Europe.