Olaf Bender

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Olaf Bender (2010)

Olaf Bender (* 1968 in Karl-Marx-Stadt , today: Chemnitz) is a multimedia artist, graphic artist and musician from Chemnitz. He runs the artist platform Raster-Media and the associated music label Raster . As a musician he works under the pseudonym Byetone .

Biography / artistic classification

Olaf Bender completed an apprenticeship as a bespoke tailor in the former GDR . The Saxon Textile Center Chemnitz was formative for the later artistic production, as with numerous other well-known artists from the city and region of Chemnitz.

In 1988 he became a member of AG-Geige , a compilation initially conceived as an art project, which gained national fame as a band. In the period after the reunification, Bender worked for a Hamburg music distributor in East Germany until 1995. Together with Frank Bretschneider , Bender founded the Rastermusic label in Chemnitz in 1996 , where he was responsible for the design and graphic design of the products. During this period, Bender was musically active in the product band .

While Bretschneider and Nicolai switched to artistic production, Bender managed the operational business of the label. As an artist of the label, Bender became active as a member of the band Signal from 1998 . Since then he has operated as a solo musician under the pseudonym Byetone . His debut as Byetone was a publication for the award-winning "20 'to 2000" series. In the following years he was represented with intensive concert activity on international stages at all important festivals for electronic and minimalist music (Sonár, Mutek, Redcat).

In 1999, the two Chemnitz labels Rastermusic from Bretschneider and Bender merged with Noton from Carsten Nicolai to form Raster-Noton . With the latter, Bender operated the label for the following years; Bretschneider remained an associated artist.

The graphic design of videos and installations by Bender, which was closely related to musical production, expanded from 2000 to the field of book design. The most important work in this sector is the book production (O) acis , which was awarded as Best Book Design by the Stiftung Buchkunst.

Bender has been operating the artist platform Raster-Media in Chemnitz since 2017. Raster-Media represents numerous German and international artists in the field of electronic music and video art.

In the Bauhaus year 2019, "Raster" carried out a series of events and collaborations with sponsors of the Bauhaus tradition and the tradition of early modernism, namely Bauhaus University Weimar, Bauhaus Museum Weimar, Bauhaus 100 and Festspielhaus Hellerau.

Work (selection)

Book production, book design

Installations

  • with Olaf Held: Lumen
  • with Carsten Nicolai: White Line Light
  • with Martin Bricelj: 99
  • with Carsten Nicolai and the ZKM : White Circle

CD productions

Individual works (Byetone)
  • 1996 Interflug (Rastermusic) as Olaf Bender
  • 1999 May ("20" to 2000) (Raster-Noton)
  • 2003 field (Binemusic)
  • 2008 Plastic Star (Raster-Noton)
  • 2008 Death of a Typographer (Raster-Noton)
  • 2011 Symeta (Raster-Noton)
Collaborations
  • 1991 AG violin: Raabe (censor)
  • 1996 Product: Float (Rastermusic)
  • 1997 Product: Stretch (Rastermusic)
  • 1998 Signal: Waves + Lines (Rastermusic)
  • 2000 Signal: Centrum (Raster-Noton)
  • 2007 Signal: Robotron (Raster-Noton)
  • 2014 Diamond Version: 1 ( Mute )
  • 2014 Diamond Version: 2 (Mute)
  • 2014 Diamond Version: 3 (Mute)
  • 2014 Diamond Version: 4 (Mute)
  • 2014 Diamond Version: 5 (Mute)
  • 2014 Diamond Version: CI (Mute)
Audio-visual work
  • Sonár Barcelona, ​​Reykjavik
  • TodaysArt Festival, The Hague
  • Mutek Montreal, Tokyo, Barcelona
  • CTM Berlin, Novosibirsk
  • REDCAT Los Angeles
  • Center Pompidou Paris
  • 798 Space Beijing

Web links

Commons : Olaf Bender  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ byetone | artists | raster-media In: raster-media.net , accessed on October 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ Byetone (raster) | Get and Bring - Werkleitz Festival 2018 In: werkleitz.de , accessed on October 16, 2018.
  3. ^ Neue Sächsische Galerie (ed.): Otto Müller-Eibenstock: His path from textile to abstract art. Chemnitz 2000.
  4. ↑ Eberhard Rothers: This museum already exists ... , in: Kristallisationspunkte, Chemnitz 1994, pp. 6–8, here: 6 .; Karl Clauss Dietel: Country, people and their art. in: Kristallisationspunkte, Chemnitz 1994, pp. 46-47. Gabriele Juppe / Stephan Pfalzer: The “Kunsthütte” association in Chemnitz. in: Mitteilungen des Chemnitzer Geschichtsverein, Jb. 62 (New Series 1) (1992), pp. 47-78, on the special relationship between Saxon, especially Chemnitz (textile) industry and art, ibid. pp. 50, 52.
  5. ↑ AG violin In: aggeigefilm.de , accessed on 16 October 2018th
  6. ↑ signal | artists | raster-media In: raster-media.net , accessed on October 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ Ars Electronica Archive In: aec.at , accessed on October 16, 2018.
  8. ↑ Federal Office for Culture (Ed.): The most beautiful Swiss books 2000, Bern 2000, p. 52, ISBN 3-85905-084-2 .
  9. ↑ about raster | raster-media In: raster-media.net , accessed on October 16, 2018.
  10. ↑ raster. signals at the bauhaus | projects | raster-media. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Raster Signals # 2 - Events of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Raster. Signals # 1. Retrieved September 27, 2019 .
  13. ↑ https://www.hellerau.org/de/?s=electric+campfire
  14. ↑ »white circle« at lenbachhaus kunstbau | news | raster-media In: raster-media.net , accessed on October 16, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Bender, Olaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Byetone (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German graphic artist and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz