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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.
Director`s Cut
rechenzentrum
Rechenzentrum release material in numerous formats, testing the possibilities and limitations of each, often involving collaborations with artists based in other media and genres. According to Rechenzentrum, the philosophy behind this approach is that it is necessary to break down borders of performative context, from playing in museums and new music festivals to clubs and underground music events. However, this was not why the group originally started. Their initial concerns were quite basic: no one was releasing the kind of music that Rechenzentrum wanted to hear or the kind of video that it wanted to see, let alone combined them in innovative and appealing ways. Five years later, the group has largely found – both for itself and in terms of the audience reaction that it has generated – that their extremely imaginative DIY approach has largely prevailed and opened up numerous creative possibilities that they did not anticipate being available to them when Rechenzentrum first started.
Rechenzentrum (D) (German for "data processing center") first formed at Documenta 97. Their aesthetic mandate is the exploration of new processes of synthesizing music and visual image production, and in the live realm, refining forms of presentation which create an on-stage dialogue between audio and video. This appropriately-named trio consists of three principal artists: Lillevan (moving imagery), Marc Weiser (music, composition) and Christian Conrad (music, sound design). Rechenzentrum’s interdisciplinary approach to AV work is influenced by various twentieth century artistic traditions such as Lettrisme, Dadaism, Burroughs' cut-up narrative techniques, and punk, among many other cultural sources. Having recorded two full-lengths for the Kitty Yo label, 12” singles for the Shitkatapult and Vertical Form imprints, Rechenzentrum’s third full-length production is the DVD/CD release Director’s Cut, issued in 2003 by Mille Plateaux.