Christian "RaD Man" Wirth is a computer artist and historian who has been actively involved in text-based artwork for over 15 years. As a member of the Aces of ANSI Art (AAA) in the late 1980s and co-founder of the art group ACiD Productions (ANSI Creators in Demand), he has witnessed a large swath of computer art history as it played out online in the 1990s. Now in semi-retirement as the leader of ACiD, he has focused on tracing as much historical knowledge as possible in the field of text-based and computer-assisted artwork of the 20th century. He is the host of a monthly online radio show, The ARTS (Artscene Radio Talk Show) that chronicles different art scenes and the players within them. He lives in California.