Computer artist and interdisciplinary theorist.

Born in October 1983, I've been living in Vienna, Austria, Europe all my life. I have university degrees in medicine, medical informatics and computational intelligence. Currently I'm employed at a privately-owned company as a software engineer. Personality-wise, I'm of the type that keeps having creative and partly even visionary ideas and a drive to implement them. My interests include metaphysics, epistemology, logic, computer science, game development, psychometrics and biochemistry.

I have a life-long interest in computer and video games. My fascination stems from the fact that games tell stories and, in contrast to novels and movies, are interactive. Playing a game is like immersion into another world. But I've always not only played, I've also designed games myself. Before I taught myself to program (at the age of eight years), I made sketches using pen and paper. In the course of three decades I've implemented some of my ideas and released the products as free software. I'm particularly proud of "Adok's Number Maze", as it's based on a new concept I haven't seen in any existing game before. For a long time it has also been a desire of mine to create my own turn-based, tactical role-playing game in the style of my favorite video game, "Shining Force 2". I've actualized this dream during my days as a university student; meanwhile five editions of the "Mega Force" series have been released.

I've also been into computer journalism for a long time. My first article, a review of the game "Story of Thor", was published in the German "SEGA Magazin" when I was ten years old. Then I became a regular contributor to "PC-Heimwerker", "Computer Flohmarkt" and several electronic magazines (diskmags). At age twelve, in 1996, I was appointed co-editor of a new diskmag, Hugi. In the following eighteen years I invested a large portion of my spare time (roughly twenty hours per week) in work on this magazine and led it to place one in various diskmag charts. Since 2015 I've been maintaining the website 21st Century Headlines where I post links to news items about artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biomedical sciences, chemistry and physics almost every day.

In addition I've organized many programming contests. I started doing so after winning place one in a similar contest myself. The objective of my contests is to create the smallest possible executable that implements a given specification. It's amazing with what tiny solutions some participants have come up.

After graduating from medical school, I joined Dr. Uwe Rohr's research group and wrote a couple of papers about the connection between stress, hormones and immunity. After Uwe passed away, I came up with an idea to solve the problem of antimicrobial resistance and coined the term Symbiont Conversion. Its ultimate goal is the creation of an artificial immune system that educates parasites instead of simpy killing them.

This little homepage serves as a repository for my computer games, artworks and writings. I've also included links to other places on the web where you can find me.

Imprint: This website is owned by Claus D. Volko, Vienna, Austria. No liability is taken for the contents of any of the linked websites. Claus D. Volko does not collect any personal information on the visitors of this website. Contact via email: mail (at) cdvolko (dot) net. http://www.cdvolko.net/