The automaton: artist of the year

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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.

GRAF+ZYX [1984, translated by Simone von der Geest]

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

Herzo-Base-Exit

Ars Electronica 1986
Installation as media project of an aesthetic situation (with video, music, object, human artefacts)
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Post date 1986, June
In Projects

Beware: Space Control

Ars Electronica 1986
Our concern is with a positive and constructive use of technology, a game with the specific aim of setting examples of new aesthetic realities. We present the construction of an aesthetic media situation according to our predilections.
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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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