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Post date 1986, June
In Projects

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Ars Electronica 1986

Installation as media project of an aesthetic situation (with video, music, object, human artefacts)

These pictures reveal aspects of our earth as they can be perceived from a position at an adequate distance in space: numerous colours and forms, an impressive spectacle. They show bizarre shapes, wide expanses of mysterious systems, islands abounding with life: a dazzling vision of shade and light. Earthbound man so far only had individual parts of the puzzle to imagine universal reality. Here then is the complete mosaic: the earth seen from space.
GRAF+ZYX

The automaton: artist of the year

After becoming U.S. champion with his club »Cosmos New York«, the automaton turned his back on the metropolis in order to leave his prescribed artist-gestalt-discipline and flow into the far more comfortable discipline of an automatic buffet serving the culinarily spoiled Viennese art world as a servo and satisfying their desire for exotic entertainment.
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AMOK

This virtual multiple page installation of 2005/2006 – especially composed for internet display – arranges several works of GRAF+ZYX including video, music, photography, and drawing as novel interdisciplinary tableaux.
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Post date 2006, May
In Projects

When Darkness Comes and other obscure dialogues with the world

Attracting the smart ones
GRAF+ZYX present new interpretations and remixes of video-, film- and music-fragments of the years 1977 to 2009 in the FLUC.
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Post date 2009, June
In Press, Projects

GRAF+ZYX : Museum of Private Arts

Already in the late 1970s GRAF+ZYX committed themselves to the „aestheticisation of everyday life“ in all fields of a cross-culture. Their works with video, computer, laser, web design and programming, photography, graphic design, video sculpture, and music are visually influenced by Pop Art, Constructivism, Futurism, Dadaism and contemporary design, and musically rooted in Beat and Electronic Rock of the 60s and 70s, Free Jazz and classical modern music, whereas the lyrics in English – always composed and interpreted by GRAF+ZYX themselves – resemble obscure, existentialist dialogues. When required, voice modulation transforms the lyrics into a linguistically indefinable echoism.
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