The members of LICHTFAKTOR use light to give expression to their creativity. They take advantage of a variety of light sources to produce photos and videos in cities by night.
The Cologne artists’ collective, consisting of VJ $ehvermögen (photographer and VJ since 1997 with many years of experience in the event field) and JIAR (communications designer and graffiti artist), experiments with the possibilities yielded by bulb (long-term) exposure and painting. Their aim is to explore all aspects of “lightwriting” and to develop it further.
The LICHTFAKTOR crew intentionally uses the entire space in which a particular work is produced and integrates it into their photos and animated films in such a way that it’s not just a backdrop but a part of the work itself.
TalkTalk Commercial by Noah Harris - Blinkink.
For us it was a pleasure and a honor to work with this professional team of creative people. It was one of the most intense time in our life so far...
We did this clip for "clipmania" a german TV show about user generated web clips.
special thanks to Mikko Stübner and the team of clipmania.
Have a look at the show
to see the making of!
Lichtfaktor have teamed up with legendary UK children's show Blue Peter to create a lightwriting video.
Here is the result...
for more information check: www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/bluepeter/
this is our first tv ad, we did it for BEKO ALL-STAR in istanbul. thanks to Eran and Cahit from Sportsnet for all there help and support.
special thanks to stan mytkowski and miquel casas for there help and support,
here is a small making of at
current.com
thanks to the creative review magazine for there support,
CLICKHERE
to read the interview.
this clip was done by the students of Aberystwyth (Wales), at the FFRESH Festival 2008.
thanks to FFRESH for inviting us. special thanks to James and Greg for all there help and support. for more information check: www.ffresh.com/programme/11636.html
CLICKHERE
to see the making-of by "des willie".
(the coolest guy from london)
Special thanks to:
Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, KulturKircheKöln, sky movies, current tv, Sportsnet, creative review magazine, gruppe eins, Q.A.S. Productions inc., Dufresne Corrigan Scarlett, Pentland, DUCKTANK, Basswerk, VJ Konvex, a>>headscreen, Gunnar Emmerich, Stan Mytkowski, Miquel Casas, Ron Eshel, Rachel Devenport, Eran Hakim, Cahit, Des Willie, Simon Corkin, James&Greg, Sébastien Merigout, Miss Kittin, litexpress, ZWEIBRÜDER, Canon, bogen imaging.
Who I'd like to meet: This Text is from a Blog called
colourlovers
, it is written by ruecian.
Painting with Light
A number of graffiti artists have been tagging everything thought to be impossible without being caught. Well — it’s actually not illegal for them. They’re not using paint. As it turns out, time-lapse photography isn’t just for blooming flowers, skyscapes, or brake lights anymore. Termed Light Graffiti, tag artists are taking their colour to an all new level.
Let There Be Light
Using an exposure of about ten-to-thirty seconds and a tripod for best results, Light Graffiti artists start at the first click. Glowsticks, flashlights, reflectors, and even torches have been used as mediums to create all sorts of designs and tags, as the artist becomes a ghost of a blur, if visible at all.
No Harm, No Foul
Any person, place, or thing can become a central piece of the art. Because all it really takes is less than a minute, light tagging phone booth can be just as easy as something in the privacy of home, though staying home is certainly less fun. Some ‘hardcore’ taggers are set on Light Graffiti not actually being graffiti because it doesn’t have a physical presence, but after seeing photos of it, it’s not too different from tagging a building and having it covered or removed the next day.
See if you can make some yourself. The general rule of Light Graffiti seems to be experimentation and play, so, if your first ‘tag’ isn’t brilliance, keep at it.
LICHTFAKTOR Art Prints
Little Scratch, in collaboration with Lichtfaktor, has printed eight amazing images displaying the extraordinary art of light writing. Selected from 6 different collections, these images are already going down a storm, so hurry up and check them out on the website. There are only 25 editions of each image, all of which are signed.
This is a small video-diary from the time we had at ARS ELECTRONICA 2008. We had to speed it up cause we did so much.
This is a video about our visual live Performance we do with the guys from Optix. It is just a little teaser - stay tuned for more...
LICHTFAKTOR LIVE feat. OptiX and Goma at the "Lichterloh" Fire & Light Festival 2009 in Hachenburg, it's our first public live performance. More to come...
This is a Tracks (arte) feature about new Graffiti forms incl. LICHTFAKTOR's lightwriting, Graffiti Research Lab's laser tagging and Daim's virtual 3D Graffiti.
special thanks to TRACKS/ARTE
Hey, alles gut bei dir? Coole Aktionen macht ihr! Hier sind die News vom Movement! Photos von der Movement Party Vol.1 mit Graffiti-Session und OpR-Video "Siehst du was los ist" und Video von der Graffiti-Session online auf MySpace.Außerdem viel neues unter Photos und 3 neue Songs und ein Radio-Interview mit OpR,Aurelia,Dr.Knarf im Player!! Aurelia"Herzschlag" EP zum freien Download unter www.strassenkinda.de Außerdem gibt es da noch Photos vom Ghostface Killah und EPMD-Konzert, Isa I..s Solo-EP "On my Way" und das Strassenkinda Movement Mixtape Vol.1 zum freien Download! Viel Spaß damit. Strassenkinda Movement
Henry Valentine Miller: „Leben ist, was uns zustößt, während wir uns etwas ganz anderes vorgenommen haben“
Karl Marx: Der Arbeiter fühlt sich außerhalb der Arbeit bei sich und bei der Arbeit außer sich.
Rudi Dutschke: Der Mensch zerstört seine Tradierten Normen nur unter der Voraussetzung des verbessern könnens seiner Lage...
Revolution ist kein kurzer akt wo mal irgendwas Passiert und dann ist alles anders Revolution ist ein Langer Komplizierter Prozess in dem der Mensch anders werden muss.
Alexander Pope: Zornig sein heißt, den Fehler anderer an sich selbst rächen.
Robert Lee Frost: Im Wald boten sich mir zwei Wege dar ich nahm den der weniger betreten war.
Jiddu Krishnamurti: Die Computer sind sehr gelehrt. Gelehrsamkeit hat nicht das geringste mit Intelligenz zu tun.
