Reuben Sutherland is a New Zealander who lives in Britain. He is a VJ, director and visual artist, specialising in mixing up live action and animation. Sutherland has made

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s for The Doves,

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and

Röyksopp Röyksopp (), a Norwegian electronic music duo from Tromsø formed in 1998. The duo consists of Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland. Berge and Brundtland were introduced to each other through a mutual friend in Tromsø, Norway. They enjoye ...

(their single ''

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''). He also created videos for the New Zealand-based independent record label

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. He has directed various TV commercials through the production company Joyrider. Together with noise artist Dan Hayhurst, Sutherland formed Sculpture, a visual and musical group which does live

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-video art performances with a record player and a camera. Hayhurst plays improvised music with

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s and effects equipment. Sculpture has performed in festivals and clubs in Europe, among which

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was one. Works of Sutherland are being included in the tenth anniversary documentary about the All Tomorrow's Party Festival, published by

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. Sutherland has directed commercials for Adidas,

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Releases

* Sculpture - Sculpture, DVD with animations

External links

Official website of Sculpture

References

British video artists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-artist-stub