Talis Frouge

VWLS (VOWELS) is an independent multimedia creative studio creating accessible and agitative printed and digital ephemera. Created and curated by Talis Frouge and Lucas Granath, VWLS looks to embrace the idea that nothing is original; all art is derivative, built on existing culture. Though projects published by VWLS may explore any themes, tools of appropriation, remixing, sampling, bootlegging and piracy are a through-line. Art and design, agriculture, medicine, urban planning, media distribution and production, and computing and data are just a few of many sectors that restrict access and agency based on ideas of property (intellectual or otherwise), owner/authorship, and reproduction (copy)rights. VWLS looks to create ephemeral and short form art and media in collaboration with creatives who (in process or concept) challenge the status quo of privatized ideas/images, innovations, and resources.

Visit VWLS.org to stream VWLS TV, read VWLS MGZN VOL.ZERO, and to learn more about other VWLS projects.