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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
flüux:/terminal
skoltz_kolgen
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flüux:/terminal projects images on two screens in a parallel visual body of luminous particles: photographed or filmed images and wire frame displays. As stereophonic visual representations, the two screens are the alter egos of the audio, which is also divided in two. The sound sources (left/right) are desynchronized and propelled into separate channels: the left-hand channel excites the left-hand image; the right-hand channel excites the right-hand image. The image is distorted, bearing the marks that the sound imprints upon it, and becomes the fossil of the sound. A bipolar experience is therefore built by catalyzing the lines of tension between two independent but related audio and visual worlds. Their dissociation in one instance and their synchrony or symmetry in another establish space-times that fairly float in weightlessness. These suspended moments are succeeded by fresh charges of energy that are massive and intense. A new generation of meaning escapes: attraction and repulsion, interdependence at times, followed by struggle and conflict at others.
skoltz_kolgen (CA) is a plurimedia work cell, comprised of dominique [t] skoltz and hermann kolgen. Rigorous and raucous creators, their artistic pursuits plumb the integral linkages between sound and image. Liberated by digital media they simultaneously assume numerous positions, inhabiting a space between film, photography, audio art and installation. Architects of worlds, skoltz_kolgen penetrate the ephemeral skin between solid matter and the unsubstantiated, the intimate and the objective; their work conjures up bewitched worlds that gestate between accident and intent.