Multimedia Specialist · AI Pioneer · Sound Producer
NIRANMARIOOSSWALD
Three decades at the frontier of artificial intelligence, multimedia and sound. Designer, philosopher, producer — building worlds across canvas, code and frequency since 1994. aka NIZSTARO
The Manifesto
Four chapters, one frequency
Synthesis
Thirty years inside the machine. From CGI scripts and early neural experiments in 1990s Münster to today's generative AI — I have watched intelligence learn to dream, and I have painted alongside it.
Sonic Alchemy
As NIZSTARO, sound becomes architecture. All-round music production — from piano keys to interstellar frequencies — pressed into tracks that travel further than borders. Interstellar is only the beginning.
Digital Architecture
Websites are living rooms for ideas. Benzstand, Respite Foundation, CouchMonkey — each one engineered end-to-end: design, code, marketing, launch. Clean structures carrying loud ideas.
Philosophy
An accredited PhD in philosophy. Author of 'Laws of Exopolitics' and 'Die Gesetze'. Every pixel and every waveform is an argument about what it means to be human in a machine age.
Chapter ∞ — Machine Dreams
Three decades working with AI
Generative work — spreading across the internet
Neural studies · NMO archive
1994 — 1999
The First Contact
CGI scripting, JAVA, early web intelligence and machine-driven media in Germany. Building the internet while the world was still dialling up.
2000 — 2009
Multimedia Intelligence
Studio Domain founded. AI-assisted design pipelines, digital archives, video post-production and algorithmic artwork across Melbourne's gallery scene.
2010 — 2019
The Exopolitics Years
Hardcoreprofessor.com — a decade of philosophical writing on AI, law and machine consciousness. Exhibitions from Melbourne to London.
2020 — NOW
Generative Era
Three decades deep into AI. Generative artwork spreading across the internet, NIZSTARO sound production, and a portfolio that keeps mutating.
Motion Archive
Showreel — interlaced
Video publishing · post-production · 30 years of moving images
Chapter ♪ — The Artist
NIZSTARO — sound without gravity
Live from Audiomack
Interstellar
NIZSTARO · the original track, streamed direct from Audiomack
NIZSTARO · Melbourne · Electronic
Started DJing as a kid in a windmill in a youth hostel in Germany — now Melbourne based, Electronic, releasing on the NIZSTARO label.
Superior Works
Websites built, shipped and alive
The Arsenal
Skills, sharpened over thirty years
Creative Suite
- ▸Adobe Creative Cloud
- ▸Photoshop expertise
- ▸Illustrator
- ▸InDesign
- ▸Macromedia Flash
- ▸Swift 3D
- ▸Paint Shop Pro
- ▸Video publishing
- ▸Colour theory & composition
Code & Web
- ▸HTML / DHTML
- ▸JavaScript
- ▸JAVA
- ▸PHP
- ▸CGI
- ▸AJAX & JSON
- ▸WordPress & HubSpot
- ▸SEO best practice
- ▸2,000+ software titles
Business & Craft
- ▸Project management
- ▸Product life-cycle management
- ▸Consulting & market research
- ▸Staff training
- ▸Copyright law
- ▸Recordkeeping
- ▸Planning & coordination
Languages
- ▸English — PhD level
- ▸German — GDS level
- ▸Japanese — 3rd year tertiary
- ▸Dutch — speaking
- ▸Flemish — speaking
- ▸Spanish — knowledgeable
Work History
Every role, every era
2002 — Present
Owner · Sales, Marketing & Design
Studio Domain — Melbourne
- ▸Design, consulting, market research, marketing, sales and logistics
- ▸Print & online advertising solutions for brand awareness
- ▸Digital archive management, video post-production and distributable media
2010 — 2020
Author & Publisher
Hardcoreprofessor.com
- ▸Writings of philosophy, multimedia and law
- ▸Financial infrastructure commentary and research
1999 — 2002
Multimedia Designer
Nuraltek Pty. Ltd — Northcote, VIC
- ▸Front-end development with WordPress, HubSpot, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX & JSON
- ▸SEO-driven site design, security maintenance and patching
- ▸Organised Nuraltek's presence at Comdex Melbourne 2001
1998
Sales & Customer Support
AC&T Pty. Ltd — Melbourne
- ▸High-volume client management and pipeline building
- ▸Daily and weekly sales reporting
1997 — 1998
Internet Web Design & Marketing
Netpage GmbH — Münster, Germany
- ▸CGI scripts, JAVA and HTML programming
- ▸Brand identity, logos and full website delivery
- ▸Domain registration and hosting management
1996 — 1997
Co-owner
Red Rock Exports
- ▸Marketing, exports, account keeping and customer service
The Roadmap
Education across three continents
2013 — 2014 · Doctorate
Accredited PhD in Philosophy
Nethra Institute — Colombo
1996 — 1997 · Certification
ZMP · German Language & Literature
Goethe Institute — Melbourne
1993 — 1996 · Degree
BBA · International Business / BA International Trade
Monash University — Melbourne
1988 — 1991 · Secondary
High School Diploma · 330/400
HPSC — Hampton Park, VIC
1984 — 1988 · Grammar
Missions Gymnasium 'Kloster Bardel'
Private Grammar School — Germany
+ Member of the Information Honor Society for Internet and Communication
Off The Clock
Hobbies that became lifetimes
Music
All-round producer as NIZSTARO. Piano, synthesis and interstellar frequencies.
Art
Solo exhibitions — FAD Gallery 2010, Eurotrash Bar 2007/2008, 2R ART London 2008, Popshop Gallery 2006.
Philosophy
PhD. Author of 'Laws of Exopolitics' and 'Die Gesetze'. Writing at the edge of machine consciousness.
Computers
Three decades of code, from WIN 3.1 to Linux to generative AI. Travelling with a terminal always open.
Also: travelling, piano, and art that spread all over the internet.
The Library
Writings of philosophy — the PhD years
Laws of Exopolitics
Book I · The Hardcore Professor Writings
Written across a decade on hardcoreprofessor.com, Laws of Exopolitics lays out Niran's framework for law, sovereignty and government in a universe that is not empty — where exopolitics meets metalaw, and the question of machine consciousness becomes a question of the state.
Die Gesetze
Book II · The German Companion
The German companion volume — Die Gesetze ('The Laws') carries the same architecture of thought into Niran's mother tongue: order, law and the subject, written between Melbourne and Europe for a readership that spans both hemispheres.
Full manuscripts available on request via the contact terminal
Transmission
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Niran Mario Gunaratne Santiago Osswald (PhD) — NIZSTARO
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