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Bolz 

(2004) 

by Berlin based Transforma. Audio by Apparat. Hi-gloss images out of simple, cheap materials, the juxtaposition of the polished and the rough and an homage to Chris Cunningham.

The music is pumping as improvised cardboard robot costumes get transformed into abstract animated colors and shapes.

 

Source: Transforma

 

 

Bolz, editing, people, Video Clip

Reading

Rewind, Play, Fast Forward (2010) – The Past, Present and Future of the Music Video by Henry Keazor, Thorsten Wübbena (eds.) brings together different disciplines as well as journalists, museum curators and gallery owners in order to take a discussion of the past and present of the music video as an opportunity to reflect upon suited methodological approaches to this genre and to allow a glimpse into its future. (transcript Verlag)

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)

META/DATA: A Digital Poetics (2007) by pioneering digital artist Mark Amerika mixes (and remixes) personal memoir, net art theory, fictional narrative, satirical reportage, scholarly history, and network-infused language art. META/DATA is a playful, improvisatory, multitrack digital sampling of Amerika's writing from 1993 to 2005 that tells the early history of a net art world gone wild while simultaneously constructing a parallel poetics of net art that complements Amerika's own artistic practice. (The MIT Press)

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Transmissions (2010) by Kasumi captures tiny revelations in small gestures and fleeting facial expressions. The 3-minute shortfilm explores their meanings, translating them into a metaphorical language synthesized from all forms of artistic expression: image, movement, music, shape, light and composition. Kasumi illuminates the mysteries of human thought and behavior on their own terms – viscerally, instinctually – and to trigger viewers’ similarly unconscious feelings through their powers of perception and association. (Kasumi)

Antonin De Bemels (*1975) discovered video art and experimental cinema at Ecole de Recherche Graphique, from 1993 to 1997. His main areas of interest are movement and the human body, and the dynamic relationship between sounds and images. Since 1997, he has made more than 15 short videos that were screened all around the world. He also creates video backgrounds and soundtracks for contemporary dance pieces, and occasionally performs as a VJ. (Videomedeja)

Gravity (2009) by Montreal-based designer Renaud Hallée is made from falling objects synchronized to produce rhythm. (Visual Music/ Maura McDonnell )

Michael Fakesch: Crest (2008) - Visual Kitchen's contribution to Michael Fakesch's vidos project. It is one of five angles they have made for the relatively short track Crest. The DVD, selfpublished in collaboration with fluctuating images. (Visual Kitchen on Vimeo)

Hexstatic is a UK music duo, consisting of Stuart Warren Hill and Robin Brunson, that specializes in creating "quirky audio visual electro." Formed in 1997 after Hill and Brunson met while producing visuals at the Channel Five launch party, they decided to take over for the original members of the Ninja Tune multimedia collective Hex that had disbanded around the same time. They soon collaborated with Coldcut for the Natural Rhythms Trilogy, including the critically acclaimed A/V single Timber. (Wikipedia)