Mirko Reisser, aka DAIM (*1971 in Lueneburg, Germany), created the first graffiti works in 1989. As early as 1990 he sprayed his first commissioned works, in 1991 he began to work as a freelance artist immediately after graduating from high school, and from then on called himself DAIM. In 1996 the artist began studying fine art at the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. In 1999 he co-founded the Getting-Up Artist Group in Hamburg.