Christian Bauer is a creative consultant, art director, project developer, and problem solver for corporations and governments. He specializes in merging creativity and art with technology and transforming ideas into projects. With over 35 years of international entrepreneurial experience, he has worked in 45 countries. For the last 26 years, he primarily managed projects for Austrian artist André Heller (see http://www.andreheller.com) and has collaborated with companies like Swarovski, Red Bull, the German Federal Government, Bertelsmann, Porsche, Daimler, DLR, ESA, NASA, and others.Christian Bauer has transformed many ideas into projects: From technological inventions (e.g. as an inventor), over creative ideas (e.g. the Bidding Germany's for FIFA World Cup) to now - and most recently, developing art pieces that have previously gone unrecognized in their field, into very profitable assets.He was an early pioneer in 3D technologies such as Virtual Worlds, Virtual Reality, and Web3D / VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) and was a GIS and CAD expert in the early days. In the 1990s, he successfully operated a company in Silicon Valley.Christian Bauer advises the European Commission on Future and Emerging Technologies and Future Internet Research. He also serves as an evaluator for the World Summit Award, European Youth Award, Social Impact Award, and others.He has given guest lectures at Harvard University (Faculty of Architecture) and MIT and served as an assistant professor at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in the Institute for Urban Design and Regional Planning from 1998 to 2002. He taught at the Institute of Experimental Architecture from 2003 to 2008 and at the University of Applied Sciences, the Institute of Renewable Energies, in Vienna and three more universities in Austria from 2012 to 2014.Christian Bauer holds a "Recognition of Service Award" from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a leading non-profit group in the computing industry, based in New York.More at: http://chrisbauer.com.