GROK | ARTISTS
Andreas Müller { Nanika }
Apart from his contributions to various award winning projects while Rich-Media Director at Hi-ReS!, in 2005 he was awarded the Tokyo Type Directors Club Grand Prix for his piece "For All Seasons", the first and so far only interactive piece to receive the Grand Prix.
In 2007 "Wind" and "SwimmingMessageSystem" were selected by Wired magazine to go on display at the yearly Wired NextFest festival and his new company Nanika has just finished creating interactive and video visuals for the Diesel Spring/Summer 09 collection fashion show in New York.
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Carl Burgess { MoreSoon }
Carl Burgess is a designer and director based in London. After graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2003 Carl later worked as Art Director at Hi-ReS! a company renowned for it's pioneering web work
While at Hi-ReS Carl was nominated for numerous awards including a BAFTA for his work on Lost and also won a Clio and D&AD nomination for his work on Beck. In July 2008 Carl started up More Soon a multidisciplinary design practice also based in London
Primarily a visual artist Carl exhibits his work on his website MoreSoon, he also contributes to many projects including Advance Beauty and As-Found.
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Thomas Traum { Dataclouds }
Internet, Particles, slow motion, freeze frames, satellite images, anti gravity, rewinds, liquids, science fiction, death, deaths, decadence, violence, brutalism, noise, loudness, landscapes, imaginary landscapes, urbanism, webcams, loops, emotions, paintings, imagecollections, stage sets, the Black Forest, the original homepage concept, stroboscope, music, minimalism, surface extension, space, theories, supremism, the upload alliance, random, 3d, Code, Drawing, Textmate, digital, Cars, Porsche, Formula 1, Football, Money, Sneakers, Rap, House, Techno, Europe, US, LA, Trains, Subways, Snow, Powder, Sea, Sun, Sex
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Marc Kremers { Tex Server }
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Digital Club
Digital Club is the
partnership of Marc Kremers and Thomas Eberwein, two art
directors/digital artists specializing in high end websites which are
always creatively and technologically innovative. Their hearts and
inspiration lies in the worlds of art, music and fashion as much as the
world of design. But first and foremost, Marc and Tommi are Internet
fanatics, excited by it’s possibilities more than anything else.
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Radovan Scasascia { Secondo }
Secondo is Italian/Serbian producer Radovan Scasascia. Born in Zurich in 1975, his super-funky minimal discofied electronic dance music has been appearing sporadically on Soul Jazz Records since 2003 and on his own minimal electronic label, Dreck Records since 2000, where he also releases the music of artists such as AM/PM, Antonelli and Strategy. His most recent appearance was on the Soul Jazz Singles CD alongside Rekid (AKA Radio Slave and one half of Quiet Village), Kode9, Subway, DJ Rupture and other similarly like-minded electronic pioneers.
Secondo’s love of disco and minimal European electronic music produces a unique funky-electronic cut up style that shows his close links with the micro-house sound of Germany’s Kompakt label as much as that of the New York Disco labels of the late 70s and early 80s. This led to earlier releases such as his celebrated Tom Tom Club cut-up a few years back.
Secondo’s music features thousands of micro-samples and on “A Matter of Scale”, his first album on Soul Jazz Records, the music successfully reflects his aim of reconstructing these minute sonic fragments into new compositions that somehow maintain the atmosphere of the originals as well as creating new worlds. As much at home with his own material as other peoples, his remixes have appeared on a diverse set of European and American electronic artists – Felix da Housecat, Richie Hawtin, Harrison Crump, James Din A4, Kammerflimmer Kollektief and many more.
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Mitch Stratten
Mitch Stratten’s films centre on strong feeling, new ideas and pioneering techniques. Mitch has solid experience in art, design and music production. Before directing he had a stint at Fabrica and went on to co-design the Quatermass website in Brussel, which was included in a permanent exhibition at The Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts showcasing digital art from the turn of the century.
Recent projects include Bang Chong for Familia, an independent skateboard documentary distributed globally through VAS Entertainment. He directed ‘Oh Diamond, Diamond, a release accompanying 2 tracks form his solo debut release on Sub Rosa records.
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Guy Noir
http://www.myspace.com/guy_noir
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Karborn
Karborn’s
penchant for digital image manipulation was formed in his early teens
and has since been peddling his beautiful, multi-media craft in live AV
and DJ sets, on canvases and prints, coming together in perfect,
symbiotic unison at his debut solo exhibition during 2008’s pioneering
Sonar Festival in Barcelona.
He is also very much the storyteller, piecing his work with creative prose, alternate imagery and music. Two projects that reflect this are his recent AV collaboration with John Foxx on “Burning Car” and an exclusive upcoming series of dub lacquers, which pairs musicians and artists (including himself) on one-off vinyl dubplates. The project is entitled “Platonic” and the visionary musical artists involved are a clutch of today’s most contemporary, forward thinking electronic producers, including Burial, Zomby, Amon Tobin, Dubterror, Starkey and Rusko.
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Sam Graf
Sam Graf, born 1984
in Berne, Switzerland, is an artist working with new media and
installation. The focus of his work is the connection between light,
sound and space.
After successfully finishing his Media Art studies at the College of
Art and Design in Aarau, Switzerlnd and at the École nationale
Superieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Sam Graf participated in
various group exhibitions such as the "Swiss Awards" show ar ART Basel,
the Aeschlimann-Corti Scholarship at the Pasquart Center in Bienne,
Switzerland or "U30 - Young Swiss Art" in Bern, Switzerland.
Sam Graf worked on solo exhibitions for the Museum of Communication in Bern and the VALIART Gallery.
Graf won the Kiefer Hablitzel Scholarship and the Valiat Award in 2008.
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Harm van den Dorpel
http://www.harmvandendorpel.com
Born 1981 in The Netherlands.
Lives and works in Amsterdam and on the Internet.
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Laurence { Discombabulate }
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Lightfoot { Riiiightfoot }
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Jean-Robert Saintil
http://www.monumentaldj.co.uk/jsaintil.htm
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Andrew Lo-Train [ Minimallondon ]
http://www.myspace.com/andrewlotrain
