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

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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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Karl Kliem (*1969) studied at the well-known Hochschule für Gestaltung (University of Art and Design) in Offenbach. He developed real-time audio and visual systems and has designed the most diverse projects in the fields of multi-media, web design, and TV design, as well as music and audio production for films and interactive installations. Karl Kliem is a founding member of Involving-Systems (1994) and MESO (1997). (Dienststelle)

Minus 60° (2010) by Karl Kliem is a surround sound installation with synchronized florescent tubes and six speakers on tripods. One fluorescent tube is attached to each tripod. (Karl Kliem on Vimeo)

burial - prayer (2009) by Karl Kliem is a grid-ceiling-element with four neontubes (striplights), size about 65x65 cm. They are controlled in realtime by FFT analysis. (Dienststelle)

Trioon I (2003) by Karl Kliem. Music by Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Both elements of the music, an analog piano and a digital sinus wave, are represented by two overlapping visual elements: the fading sound of the piano by three abstracted octaves of a keyboard with the keys fading out just as softly as the tones fade from hearing. (Dienststelle)

FBAS Furniture (2003) by Karl Kliem. This video is part of the screensaver section of the DIN AV 01/04/CN/86.03 DVD. Karl Kliem made a Max patch that remixed Eric Satie's Gnossienne Nr. 4. (Dienststelle)

alva noto: Neue Stadt (Skizze 8) (2001) by Karl Kliem was published on v/a Clicks & Cuts 2, CD 2001, Mille Plateaux (mp98). (Dienststelle)

Visual Kitchen explores the semantics of live AV performance and video art from a background of VJ’ing and music video production. As designers of moving images, VK adapts any kind of (non-)narrative structure into dazzling trips of visual flux, combining rigorously structured loops with soft- or hardware-generated chaos. The output is very diverse and versatile, from analogue photographic to digital minimalism, exploring the parameters of the canvas. (Visual Kitchen)

Carsten Nicolai (*1965) is part of an artist generation who works intensively in the transitional area between art and science. As a visual artist Carsten Nicolai seeks to overcome the separation of the sensual perceptions of man by making scientific phenomenons like sound and light frequencies perceivable for both eyes and ears. His installations have a minimalistic aesthetic that by its elegance and consistency is highly intriguing. (raster-noton)

Excerpt-T (2011) by Craig Allen re-imagines Cornelius Cardew's work Treatise through the prism of a machine dreaming. Transient sections of Cardew's original work are ever present and form the template of the unfolding dream, the dream follows a discontinous narrative, moments shift in mesmerising yet unscrutable patterns, reflecting aspects of the original, but altered and opaque. A silicon reverie. The visual elements of the piece were inspired by the 60's work of graphic designer Kazumasa Nagai and by Cardew's own system of graphical scoring. (Allan Craig)

Grid Index (2009) by Carsten Nicolai is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. Based upon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai has discovered and unlocked the visual code for visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns. The accompanying CD contains all of the grids and patterns featured in the publication from the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, as editable vector graphic data files. (Gestalten)

The Knife: Like A Pen (2006) is Andreas Nilsson's fourth video for The Knife, taken from their album Silent Shout. A colorful, hysteric journey starring a brown little curved fellow. (The Knife on Vimeo)

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