Heimo Ranzenbacher (* 1958, Kapfenberg, Styria/A) lives as a freelance author and artist in Graz. He attended the Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Graz, Department of Commercial Graphics, and studied stage design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Since 1982, Heimo Ranzenbacher has worked as a freelancer for daily newspapers in Graz, first in the cultural sector and later (since 1990) in editorial area management. Heimo Ranzenbacher has published various works on the theory and practice of media art in books, catalogs and specialist journals and publications (most recently Liquid Music, 2007 and ALLtag, 2012, FIN /3 and FIN /2). He has given lectures at many symposia. From 1996 to 2009 he was editor of the book productions of Ars Electronica, Linz. In 1998 he founded the Liquid Music project, which he led until 2018. Since the early 1980s, Ranzenbacher has been active in the organization and implementation of various art projects, many of which are associated with science. His works have been shown at home and abroad (England, Singapore, Slovenia, Croatia ...) and at festivals (Steirischer Herbst, Ars Electronica ... ).