Techno art
The term techno-art (also techno-art ) encompasses art forms that are directly related to the techno scene . These are often drawings , graphics or animations and cover designs , as well as futuristic metal figures whose artists identify with the scene and want to express the corresponding attitude towards life with their works.
An early and widespread form of techno art is the flyer , which is used to advertise parties and other events.
Decorations , projections and room installations have also become very important at raves and techno events. For example, Berlin artists such as Gecco or Skudi Optics became famous for their experimental and large-scale projections.
history
When techno slowly emerged from the underground and the labels began to worry about commercial distribution, the first computer-animated music videos were created in the early 1990s, the pioneers of which were the 3Lux series and its successor X-Mix .
The first major exhibition that dealt exclusively with techno art was the Chromapark in the E-Werk in Berlin .
Gestalten-Verlag from Berlin was already publishing books in the early 1990s that dealt with techno-art in the broadest sense.
Among the scene magazines, Frontpage magazine and its graphic designer at the time, Alexander Branczyk, played a pioneering role in terms of design and layout.
In the beginning, techno art was still characterized by colorful collages , naive paintings, simple geometric 3-D objects and texts in partially difficult-to-read typographic free style. Photographs from earlier decades, which can be understood ironically, were often used to define themselves as a revolutionary, new culture. With the technical development and the change in the attitude towards life within the scene, away from the "higher-faster-further-mentality", the artistic representation increasingly concentrated on minimalist and color-reduced design, as well as more realistic 3-D animations.
In the Freetekno movement, on the other hand, simple flyers are sometimes deliberately created even today, which often play with the colors black and white and result in psychedelic patterns or ornate images that are almost unrecognizable, in which more or less hidden information about the advertised event are. Mostly motifs related to Tekno parties or fictional machines and robots are drawn, which usually convey a gloomy to demonic impression. Typical, recurring elements are gas masks, skulls, mutated to morbid figures and technical equipment (usually boxes and turntables). The backgrounds are usually dark and should convey a mechanical-industrial impression. Such patterns and graphics are drawn in many forms on scarves that are used as decorations at the events, or printed on hooded sweaters.
Goa
In the Goa and psytrance scene, which is closely related to techno, a very special art form was established at events, flyers and music covers under the influence of psychoactive drugs as early as the 1990s . The artistic representations mostly relate to nature , spirituality , colorful, psychedelic patterns or fractals and ethnic-religious symbols, often from Hinduism , Shivaism or Buddhism, and show a close relationship to the hippie movement.
Goa parties are mostly held as open-air events and are often decorated with lovingly crafted hallucinogenic mushrooms made of paper mache , 2- or 3-dimensional objects made of woven threads or colorful batik cloths.
The objects are often held in fluorescent colors and glow when exposed to black light .
Famous artist
literature
- Alfred M. Jones: Technoart. Localizer 1.1. Die Gestalten Verlag , Berlin, 1996, ISBN 3-931-12601-3
swell
- ↑ Kid Paul no longer lives here, Die Tageszeitung from December 13, 2003