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D-Fuse 

are a collective of London based artists who explore a wide range of creative media. Their explorations of live audiovisual performance, mobile media, web print, art and architecture, TV and film, have beend shown internationally.

D-Fuse is a group of artists and designers from varied disciplines, who work across a range of creative media from Art and Architecture, to Live A/V Performances to Mobile Media, Web, Print, TV and Film.

D-Fuse Live Performances are unique shows that immerse the audience in energizing and innovative imagery and sound. They build the performances into the spaces utilising multiple screens and layering of transparencies. Each performance is tailored specifically to the venue and audience engagement, ensuring that all live performances are an individual experience. 

D-Fuse work in collaboration with a wide variety of musicians, ranging from Beck to electronic artists Scanner and Leftfield, to contemporary classical Ensemble Alter Ego [who collaborate with Sciarrino and Philip Glass]

D-Fuse's visual art has been seen and screened internationally; events include Sonar [Barcelona], onedotzero Festivals, Nokia Lab in St Petersburg and Moscow, Mori Arts Centre [Tokyo], Eyebeam [NYC], San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Prix Ars Electronica [Linz] The Rotterdam and Seoul Film Festivals, Lisbon and Valencia Bienniale and many others.

D-Fuse's work embraces + erases the boundaries of the DVD format. D-Fuse have recently collaborated with Beck to create the groundbreaking Guero DVD Audio/DVD Video. D-Fuse have released 3 x DVDs of their works - D-Fuse Vs Nonplace [nowondvd/Japan], Gasbook - D-Fuse retrospective [nowondvd/Japan], D-Tonate_00 [onedotzero] - nominated for Best DVD at 2003 Music Week CADS Awards.

Internationally D-Fuse's work has appeared on many compilation DVD's including - Gas DVD3 + Gas TV-05 [Japan], onedotzero's Select 1 [UK], Reline2 [USA] + Mixmasters [USA].

 

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Musicians perform at concerts and artists exhibit their work in galleries. It's just the way things are done, the standard modes of artistic presentation. London studio D-Fuse, however, demolishes those conventions. They mash live performances with art openings, fusing improvisation with carefully crafted visual art to create explosive shows and impressive displays. "We don’t feel constrained to one particular style and we like to explore things from a conceptual point of view," says Keri Elmsly, D-Fuse producer. "You could say our work is graphically led, but juxtaposed with an incredibly cinematic feel."

D-Fuse doesn't limit itself to any one graphic style or artistic mode. The firm has designed and crafted record album covers, print ads, TV commercials, art installations, DVDs, and live VJ shows. They mix media — video, motion graphics, still imagery, and music.

 

Source: D-Fuse: Cold Fusion by Dustin Driver

 

 

D-Fuse are a London-based audiovisual artist collective, who use emerging creative technologies to explore social and environmental issues. Founded in the mid 90's by Michael Faulkner, the group's diverse creative backgrounds combine in a cross-disciplinary practice, including live multi-screen audio-visual performances, experimental documentary, photography, and temporary architectural installations. Since the mid 90's, the line up has included Stuart Gill, Ian Masters (Pale Saints), Joanna Buick, Andy Stiff, Axel Stockburger, Matthias Kispert, Barney Steel, and Toby Harris.

Widely recognised as pioneers of VJ culture, D-Fuse edited the book VJ: Audiovisual Art + VJ Culture in 2006. Their current practice includes live multi-screen audio-visual performances, experimental documentary, HD shorts, and the temporary architecture of installations. Now at the forefront of the emerging genre of Live Cinema, the key relationship between sound and image underpins all of D-Fuse’s work.

Sound Director Matthias Kispert composes soundscapes from field recordings, electromagnetic interferences and different musical cultures, building a material link between the sounds of everyday life and D-Fuse's visual work.

 

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D-Fuse, architecture, london

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VJ: Audio-Visual Art + VJ Culture (2006) edited by D-Fuse. A major change has taken place at dance clubs worldwide: the advent of the VJ. Once the term denoted the presenter who introduced music videos on MTV, but now it defines an artist who creates and mixes video, live and in sync to music, whether at dance clubs and raves or art galleries and festivals. This book is an in-depth look at the artists at the forefront of this dynamic audio-visual experience. (Laurence King Publishing)

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