As a child exposed to the dreary experience of white people's chain stores in an incubator called Long Island, Daniel Trattler took the first opportunity to escape and moved to the big city, Chicago and New York. He studied mathematics, was a performance artist, practiced in scientific experiments, and produced art magazines. In 1993, he moved to Berlin, where he dared a new beginning as a graphic artist. In 2000 he founded the agency eobiont. Trattler teaches at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences HTW.