GRAF+ZYX

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GRAF+ZYX Have worked together exclusively on projects and exhibitions since 1980 as GRAF+ZYX: MEDIENSYNTHETISCHE PROGRAMME; GRAF+ZYX live and work in Vienna and Lower Austria. GRAF Studied political sciences and journalism at the University of Vienna; also studied in the Photography and Film Department at the University of Applied Art in Vienna under Oswald Oberhuber. ZYX Trained in classical violin in Vienna and Indian music at the Istituto Canneti, Italy (Dilruba at Acharya Manfred Junius); also studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Vienna. Electronic music and music production. 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. Their conceptual approach and their theoretical texts on their intermedia works can also be understood from these universal aspects. Beauty next to ugliness and complex

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