Nicolas Clauss was born in Paris in 1968 and lives there still. Self-taught painter he studied social psychology and had many exhibitions as a painter. In year 2000 he stopped "traditional" painting in to use multimedia and the internet as a canvas. He works as a fulltime freelance artist on commissioned projects such as Five Elsewhere (http://www.cinq-ailleurs.com). Some of his recent work is displayed on his own site http://www.flyingpuppet.com. Nicolas Clauss won several awards (2002 flashfestival in France, SCAM 2002, Villette numerique 2002, ...) and his work was internationaly reviewed in many articles, papers and magazines (on and off line, see http://www.flyingpuppet.com/press.htm ).