About Me
General information
To keep a bit of privacy, just the following detail-information is made available:
Real name: Andry Joos
Widely known nickname/handle: Unlock
Year of birth: 1980
Living in: Switzerland
Interests & hobbies
- Vintage computers, like the Commodore 64
- Creativity with the PC (as in demoscene, realtime art/culture)
- Sports (as in mountain bike, jogging, squash)
- Parties, disco, cinema, meeting friends
- Reading (mostly sci-fi and thriller stuff, lightweight)
Activities & work
Due to my interest for the demoscene, I’m investing a good part of my spare time into organizing demoscene-related things and creating demoscene productions.
- Main organizer of the Swiss demoparty Buenzli
- Main editor of the demoscene diskmag PAiN
- One of the guys behind Echtzeit - Digitale Kultur
- Organizing the demoscene group Vantage
- I’m a member of the C64 demogroup Padua
Beside these hobbyist occupations, I’m also working for money
- I’m an employee at Geocom Informatik AG, a company developing GIS applications.
- Together with partners, I’m running an own company called Infomotion GmbH, which is operating in the field of mobile messaging/SMS.
- In the years 2000 - 2004 I was a student at the University of Applied Sciences Biel/Bienne and made my title in computer science.
- At Ascom AG, I had my first apprenticeship (1996 - 2000)