Reinhold Bidner was born in Salzburg. He studied at the University for Applied Sciences and Technologies in Salzburg (multimedia art), at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland (animation and electronic media). Since 2007 he has been freelancing in the fields of video, photography, animation, media design and media art, either as an individual or in the frame of the art collectives 1n0ut and Goldextra.