Background
Marcovici was born in 1969 in Vienna, he became interested in technology, especially electronics and mathematics, at the age of seven.
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Michael Marcovici
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His artistic output includes media works of ironic content, lithe furniture designs, and abstract hi-tech sculptures. His formative years were spent as a financial analyst and outdoor sportsman. Marcovici turned to art in 1995 as the publisher of two art magazines: werk-zeug and streetfashion.
Most of his art dates from 2005 to 2009.
By 12, he had worked as a programmer, and quit school at 17. He then started his first business in the financial field, publishing analysis on the financial markets a stock newsletter published by the artist and managing funds, until he sold his business at the age of 23.
Marcovici spent the next three years climbing and hiking in Africa, United States of America, Asia, and all over Europe. From 1995 on he was the publisher of werk-zeug, a technology and art magazine, as well as streetfashion, a magazine featuring fashionable people on the streets of the world.
He was also active as a software developer and inventor.
Marcovici holds international patents for climbing equipment, bicycle gears, trading systems and electronic payment systems Page text. In 2001, he started a business on eBay that eventually became the world"s largest power-selling enterprise on eBay, a company with 80 employees and a turnover of 20 million euros a year. In early 2005, the company went bankrupt.
He wrote a book, The End of EBay in 2008, about the company and its demise.
He lives and works in Vienna. 2010 Burn at greenbench.
2009 At Ofroom. 2009 Speed Show.
