Micha Klein, Speeding on the Virtual Highway

While studying art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in the late 1980s, Micha Klein found a computer there. The artist's son from the Dutch town of Harderwijk had chosen painting as his concentration, but he grew tired of "copying curtains." So Klein became a pioneer in the fields of digital art and photography. His avant-garde work combined wonderfully with the acid house movement that was booming at the time. He worked as VJ at many a party and became more and more involved in the virtual, digital world. In the 1990s, his work grew extremely popular, and he stormed the international party scene with his girlfriend and muse Afke. They also worked hard in their own studio, exhibiting both at home and abroad and selling their work quite successfully. Klein's manipulated worlds caught on and were seen as innovative, and the 1990s were important, successful years for the colourful couple. But these days, Klein tells us how they are dismissed as "the hedonistic drug generation." The conservative spirit of the times does not fit as well with their artistic perception. Klein's work is now darker, and Afke sees it as more severe - she likes it, but it's less "Micha-esque." Micha's father Be is also less enthusiastic about his son's work, and Micha does still want his approval. But the energetic artist continues to search for innovative paths. intersperses interviews with archive footage that the artists provided themselves.