Stan Adard

With a unique approach to digital art, Stan Adard creates pictures and experimental short films that breathe. Born in Switzerland in 1954, he received his master’s degree in education and social psychology at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and currently lives and works in a converted farmhouse in a small village in the Jura Hills. Adard married his wife Christine in 1982, and the couple has three adult sons. Adard performed for more than a decade as keyboardist and singer in the progressive rock band Nautilus. He also created the cover art for the band’s two albums. In 1978, Adard founded a company for ERP software. As owner and CEO, he successfully directed the company for more than 25 years, eventually selling the developed technologies in 2004 to devote himself completely to his digital art projects. Pursuing a passion for film, Adard won the Swiss Video Film awards in 1986. In the early days of digital animation, he created the first animated sequences for Digital Dreams (1995). Adard went on to invent The Breathing Pictures: a breathing-length form of video, which is looped and framed. Out of a similar process, he realized Time(s) To Breathe (2018) and Breathing Through (2020) as experimental short films that have received worldwide recognition. Contact: stan@astradream.com https://stanadard.com https://astradream.com