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Lithops: Graf 

(2009) 

by Karl Kliem for Lithops/ Jan St. Werner. From the album Ye Viols!, released on Thrill Jockey.

Lithops is the solo disguise of Jan St. Werner known for his work in Mouse on Mars, Microstoria and his most recent collaboration with Mark E Smith and Andi Toma as Von Sudenfed. With Ye Viols!, Lithops presents a selection of installation soundtracks assembled from several recent exhibitions. Ye Viols! can be seen as background noise for a visual utopia: a recombined industrial iconography of spatial adventures, futuristic collages and phantasmagoric scenes.

Karl Kliem's video for Lithops won the third price in the music video category of Germany most important short film festival. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen.

 

Source: Thrill Jockey

 

 

Lithops: Graf, max-msp, punk, Video Clip

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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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