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DER BAU

a dance performance based on a story by Franz Kafka

For my bachelor thesis Ray Peter Maletzki and me developed the concept for a dance piece that is soon to be performed in Halle.

Based on a story by Franz Kafka, the piece includes three characters: The creature, its burrow and the noise, represented by dancer, scenery and sound.
In order for scenery and sound to make decisions and interact with one another, they get a "consciousness" by means of the computer.

In the course of the plot, the creature loses control of its burrow and is haunted by the gruelling noise. But not only the creature, it's the dancer herself that loses control over the scenery, which in turn takes the lead and forces dancer and sound to act by its will.

The piece is in a conceptual stage and will première in early 2012.

team

Almuth Hattwich (direction)
Ray Peter Maletzki (production)
Johanna Roggan (choreography)
Stephan Kloß (sound)
Sonja Schrader (costume)
Ginan Seidl, Stephan Helmut Beier (assistants)

more information

blog (german)

BIG thanks to

satis&fy
intolight
werkleitz
überschall

Art.on.Wires Festival 2011

workshops and visuals in Oslo

this year was the second time Marko Ritter (intolight.de) and me were invited to hold a workshop at the Art.on.Wires Festival in Oslo.
Art.on.Wires is a festival for hackers, coders and creatives, bringing together people from different fields. The 5 days in Oslo were packed with talks, workshops and performances.

Marko and me held a workshop for the absolute beginner in vvvv and gave his new Switchboy (a tool for visualization, written in vvvv) a working test at the two parties on friday and saturday.

more information

art-on-wires.org

more photos

art.on.wires on flickr

photos on the right

art.on.wires.org

NODE10 Forum

internship in Frankfurt

during my internship at the NODE headquarters in Frankfurt I was lucky to be part of the organizing team with David Brüll and Ingolf Heinsch

In November 2010 the NODE Forum for Digital Arts took place in Frankfurt for the second time. What had started as an idea to bring together the many users of the visual programming language vvvv has since become an international forum for knowledge transfer between artists, designers and technologists. This year's forum consisted of an exhibition under the topic "abstrakt Abstrakt - The Systemized World", curated by artists Eno Henze and Marius Watz, a wide range of workshops aiming to spread the knowledge on beginner and advanced topics of vvvv, lead by the developers and most active vvvv users, as well as lectures, performances and talks that filled the evenings

Thanks again to everyone who made NODE10 such an inspiring, interesting and exhausting week!

my job

organisation, editorial, design

par•pluie

colour-light-sound-scape

Weißt du, ich will mich schleichen
Leise in lauten Kreis
Wenn ich erst die bleichen
Tropfen unter den Eichen
blühen weiß.

Wege will ich erkiesen
Die selten wer betritt
In bunten Paradiesen?
Und keinen Traum als diesen
Du gehst mit.

Frei nach Rainer-Maria Rilke

concept

par•pluie is an interactive installation where sound and images are created by the user's movement. moving faster, the rain becomes heavier. X and y position determine colour hue and lightness and the sound's frequency.

The installation works with two "screens". One on the floor, where you can watch the raindrops scatter across, the other one you are holding in your hand. From underneath the umbrella you can watch the raindrops fall on your head, building colourful splashes.

tools

tracking: vvvv, graphics: unity3d

time

winter 2009/2010

La Belle et la Bête / Rohrschach

collaborative project with fashion designer Denis Herzog

For the collection of fashion design student Denis Herzog I built soft circuitry to illuminate his garments.
While the piece on the left is sensitive to sounds in its surroundings, the one on the right depends on the movement of its wearer. With every step or bending of the leg it changes its colour.

tools

arduino lilypad, processing

time

summer 2010

generative design

poster created for a lecture on generative design

I thought it would make sense to have the graphics for this poster for a lecture on generative design generated. Obviously.

tools

vvvv

time

summer 2010

ARGUI

augmented looking glasses for the annual exhibition

There is way too much to see at the annual exhibition at Burg Giebichenstein. Too many places to go and too many interesting projects to be explored.

How do you know before which ones are the most intersting for you?

tools

vvvv, 3DSMax, Arduino, lots of electronics

team

Jonas Braune, Maik Lochmann, Uli Henrik Streckenbach, Franz Wagner

time

summer 2009

Workshops

vvvv und Arduino

Erfahrung gewinnt man, wenn man sie teilt.
Unter diesem Motto habe ich schon diverse Workshops zum Thema vvvv oder Arduino geleitet. Die vvvv-Workshops sind meist als eintägige Intensivkurse angelegt für Gruppen von Menschen verschiedener Vorraussetzungen. In Zusammenarbeit mit Intolight haben wir Workshops auf dem art-on-wires Festival in Oslo, in Kooperation mit der TMA Hellerau und für das Jetztmusikfestival in Mannheim organisiert.

Links

intolight
TMA Hellerau
Jetztmusikfestival
art on wires

Fotos: Conrad Schneider

paint

various paintings
nature studies & free figures

ghostorytellers

mobilier intelligent at Strate Collège Paris

concept

The ghostorytellers are a series of concepts for feeling the presence of your friends when they're not around.
I developed different ideas on how furniture could accomplish this task, of which the ghostorytellers' couch made it to a prototype.
The couch absorbs voices of your friends when they spend time with you in your living room. Like a sponge it memorizes their voices, playing them back to you when you're alone. Lying down on your couch and carefully squeezing it you can hear bits and pieces of your friends' former presence. But you have to concentrate and listen carefully. The quieter you are, the clearer the voices will become.