Adard performed for more than a decade as a keyboardist and singer in the progressive rock band Nautilus. He also created the cover art for the band’s two albums. In 1978, Adard founded a company for ERP software. As owner and CEO, he successfully directed the company for more than 25 years, eventually selling the developed technologies in 2004 to devote himself completely to his digital art projects.

Pursuing a passion for film, Adard won the Swiss Video Film Awards in 1986. In the early days of digital animation, he created the first animated sequences for Digital Dreams (1995). Adard went on to invent “The Breathing Pictures”, a breathing-length form of video, which is looped and framed. Out of a similar process, he released “Time(s) To Breathe” (2018) and “Breathing Through” (2020) as experimental short films that have received worldwide recognition.