LICHTFAKTOR 

Crew of two individuals:

$ehvermögen (Marcel Panne), born 21st May 1973 in Monte Carlo.  Has been a photographer and the first ever VJ in Cologne (1997).  His visuals can be seen in theater projects and concerts, and even at commercial events like Porsche, O2, Epson, and AXE.

JIAR (David Lüpschen), born 26th Oct 1979 in Cologne Germany.  Skillful designer, VJ and graffiti artist who has done many amazing legal graffiti pieces, t-shirts, logo designs.... For more info check *artists profile*
 
Being into graffiti it was only a small step for Lichtfaktor to start painting with light, and with their experience as VJ’s it was natural to incorporate movement within their work. As a photographer $ehvermögen was familiar with the technique of long time exposure which is an essential part of the process.  So by deciding to combine photography, painting/graffiti and stop-motion film they created “light writing” and with that they opened up a new world.  “For us light writing is an evolution and a chance to animate graffiti characters in urban landscapes. But in general we would say that graffiti is graffiti and lightgraffiti is lightgraffiti.”

Using a collection of flashlights, bike lights, flashing LEDs, fireworks and torches they create some striking pictures and scenes.  “We like the contrast between the different light sources, like xenon is doing this nice golden look, LED’s are making thin precise lines and cold cathode are doing this fat cap style. We like it when the surrounding is integrated well into the picture. Like the trashcans (starwars vs. startrek) or other stuff we bring to life, it is less interesting to just write into the air”.

In fact, Pablo Picasso was the first artist who used this technique by combining both light and painting, although in photography you find many more people who also use this method.  What Lichtfaktor have done is to transfer all their knowledge and experience of street art into “lightwriting movies”. 

Lichtfakors influences include Picasso, marko-93 and PIKAPIKA, Graffiti, Streetart, Visual Music, Wolf Vostell, Chargesheimer, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, George Lucas, Oskar Fischinger and Laurie Anderson.

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“The positive thing is that by doing lightgraffiti we are able to produce sequences that really moves through the whole space and not just along a wall.”

Click on the images below to view previous/current works.  To see art available to buy click here . 

Star Wars vs Star Trek

Forest

Energie

Abstract

Current