Andreas Muxel & Martin Hesselmeier

Andreas Muxel lives and works in Cologne, Germany, is an artist, designer, teacher and programmer. In his works he is interested in the mixture of digital code and physical material and the man-machine interface.

Martin Hesselmeier is focused on reactive installations with the limits of human perception. The questioning of the credibility of mediated content and the blurring of boundaries between reality and virtuality. See more;

Capacitive Body

Each custom built module consists of an electroluminescent light wire linked to a piezoelectric sensor and a microcontroller. Through its modular setup it can easily be adapted to various urban spaces. The sensors are used to measure vibrations of architectural solids in a range of low frequencies. These oscillations are triggered by surrounding ambient noise, for example traffic noise. The sensor data controls the light wires, which are tensed to a spatial net structure. According to the values of the measurement light flashes are generated. With increasing vibrations the time between flashes becomes shorter and shorter. The stability of this nervous system gets to an end where it collapses and restarts again. A dynamic light space is thereby created, which creates a visual feedback of the aural activity around the installation.

Capacitive Body 2010

Revolving Realities

An abstract object projected with different images, textures and animations becomes a mirror of changing realities. As a result, a kind of real virtuality arises to confront virtual reality. A modular light installation issuing from the sculptural object reworks the space. Cords of light pass through the 600 m2 of surrounding space, intertwining the surrounding area with the centre. Ideas are seized upon and returned; the space is transformed into a sound box that enters into a reflexive dialogue with the sculpture. The object, the space and the beholder form a communicative unit. Curated by Mike Meiré, the installation is the latest instalment in the Dornbracht Edges series featuring projects in which architecture, design and art intersect.

Credits, Martin Hesselmeier, Andreas Muxel, Carsten Goertz

Rynth[n4] - Paul Prudence

Paul Prudence is an artist and real-time visual performer using generative and  computational methods to create audio responsive visual systems. An overview of his selected works can be found at Transphormetic.

His Rynth project uses parameters from real-time sound analysis to generate transformations and deformations of geometric primitives. Its dynamic surface texture is generated by incoming audio frequencies resulting in a synaesthetic surface modulation. The result morphing geometric construction pays homage to gyroscopic devices and anti-gravity mechanics. See more;

Prudence is a researcher in the field of procedural art, computational design and earth processes, he runs also the interesting weblog Dataisnature,  I recommend it!

This is a Dome performance at Planetarium Artis, Amsterdam for Sonic Acts XIII - The Poetics of Space, Amsterdam 2010. You can find more info about Rynth here, images.

Alva Noto + Derivate

Audiovisual performance unitxt / univrs (derivative version) by Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto at Ars Electronica 2010. Visuals developed with Markus Heckmann aka Wuestenarchitekten and produced with TouchDesigner. See more;