MIST
artist collective
The artist collective MIST is focused on media installations as well as digital art since 2013. We take images and bring them to a contemporary audience within a sensitive dialog of art history. Our main motivation is to ‘breathe’ life and motion into static assets. We collaborate with museums, galleries and auction houses bringing our unique expertise in art tech and motion imagery. The inspiration for this project is the idea that artworks are not static objects, but rather a constant process of creation.
Consisting of the painter Andrew M. Mezvinsky and the media artist collective lichterloh (Christoph Schmid and Clemens Gürtler) they collaborated on several digital artworks and interactive installations. Their internationally recognised video installations are on permanent display at highly respected institutions such as the Dorotheum and the Jewish Museum in Vienna.
lichterloh
est. 2005
lichterloh is an internationally active media artist duo based in Vienna founded by Christoph Schmid and Clemens Gürtler. Their work involves video, light, installation and performance and oscillates between stage and exhibition spaces.
Their most recent works include the visual concept for the Austrian band hvob, live visual performances at a number of festivals worldwide – recently also for electronic music allstars Kruder & Dorfmeister.
Apart from that they are founding members and visual directors of Lighthouse Festival, an annual festival for electronic music and culture in Croatia and South Africa.
Andrew M. Mezvinsky
b. 1982, Philadelphia, US ~ Lives and works in Vienna and New York
Andrew Mezvinsky is an American artist working across animation, drawing, painting, performance, and installation. Central to Mezvinsky’s practice – which at present comprises textile-based paintings, video, artist books, set design, and works on paper – is a continuous engagement with the challenges inherent to the cultural and semiotic act of translation.
What is lost in that interstitial transit between what is expressed and what is perceived? What incommunicable stories lie hidden between the layers of compounded time that constitute how we see the present?
