This Sunday, we will perform our piece patashnik a/b at the opening of the exhibition
Drawing All Over – The Power of Line in the Untergröningen castle, between Stuttgart and Nuremberg.
The show comprises works by an international selection of artists, a.o. William Kentridge, William Forsythe, Ulrich Möckel, Robert Longo.
“The 2008 summer exhibition of international contemporary artists has drawing at the centre of its artistic performance and visual perception. Drawing – often preceded by a rough sketch- is, like writing, closely related to the inspiration of thinking, and thus belongs to the most direct and spontaneous forms of artistic expression. “What cannot be said, must be drawn” is our paraphrase of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s famous philosophical maxim. Influenced by new media and expanding concepts of art, drawing is opening new horizons. But the latter are still bound together by the power of the drawn line.”
Drawing All Over – The Power of Line
June 1 – September 28, 2008
KISS Kunst im Schloss Untergröningen e.V.
www.kiss-untergroeningen.de
For an exhibition at the Caricatura Gallery in Kassel (January-March 2008), we created a series of playful and colourful miniature interactives:
loophole | funfaircapsule | the rush | jack in the box
Instead of developing capacious installations for months, we thought it must be nice to make up interactive artworks that fit in a casket. They are based on a simple punchline or a very accessible notion, imagery or format.
Caricatura is a Gallery for Comical Art, most often showcasing the work of illustrators, satirical drawings, animation and comic strips. On their invitation, the class of New Media Design at the Kassel School of Arts and Design presented a range of interactive and electronic artworks. Contributions comment on our everyday use of technology, reverse habitual expectations towards electronic devices and make computer dreams come true.
Find out more about the other participants at jahrmarktskunst.de (sorry, german only).
This piece will be performed at the Rundgang 08 exhibition at the school of Art & Design, Kassel. Follow this link » to see other works of this exhibition.
patashnik a/b is an audio/visual live drawing performance. The two parts of the piece tell a story about an uncertain voyage into space. Without any prepared video material the story is told in figurative images and abstract visuals, combined with a soundtrack of granulated field recordings and electronic music tracks.
All images and animations are created live on a graphics tablet with our completely rewritten animation software NervousInk3. We're working on a public version, which will be available soon for Mac/ Windows.
The "Loop" animation effect is partly inspired by Golan Levin's Yellowtail (1998).
This piece will be performed at the Rundgang 08 exhibition at the school of Art & Design, Kassel. Follow this link » to see other works of this exhibition.
Patashnik (a + b) is a two-part performance about travelling, created with the custom built realtime animation software NervousInk. It tells about a journey into an unknown world. NervousInk works like a visual instrument, controlled by intuitive drawing gestures. The abstract lines, strokes and areas in black and white are combined with a sound layer of field recordings, sound effects and melodic fragments.
The event is part of the Rotlichtkonzert series presented by vonm.de and will take place at the fluctuating images gallery in Stuttgart.
March 30, 2008, 8pm
To get an idea of the animation, please check our or previous project Gestures on Sound
i started a new category on this blog called Aesthetic Systems i’ll be using it to arrange my ideas, collecting research/ inspiration/ documentation articles – everything related to my final exams work with the same title, due in august ‘08.
The festival starts tomorrow and the trailer for our audio/visual concert lounge just got finished, hurrah!
I’ll post some more complete documentation when i recovered from this. There are still a few ambient animated particle wallpaper videos waiting to be rendered …
Hooray! I just noticed my audio-programming language of choice recieved has significant up date in the last days.
You can download it here
SuperCollider is an environment and programming language for real time audio synthesis and algorithmic composition. It provides an interpreted object-oriented language which functions as a network client to a state of the art, realtime sound synthesis server.
SuperCollider was written by James McCartney (audiosynth.com) over a period of many years. It is now an open source GPL’d project maintained and developed by James and various others. It is used by musicians, scientists, and artists working with sound.
I´ve been a bit absent during the last days, and the reason was my involvement with the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, which will happen Nov 13-18! Now the program is finally online ! Besides documentaries and experimental films, the program features the exhibition MONITORING, showing installative video and media art works, and a range of audiovisual performances, for which Marcus and me where part of the selection team.
Curated from about 100 submission, Dokfest presents 4 nights of experimental concerts between performative art and club culture by German and international artists. To give you a taste here’s the lineup with some links to sites and videos. Find a professionals accreditation form here
Recently i have been sketching a typographic design with a new particle system. I have been commissioned by the 24th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival to create the identity for their Audiovisual Performance lounge to be held in November.
The idea is to use a generative design across different media; posters, flyers, motion graphics and an interactive wallpaper for the specific location. Black and white typographic layouts are converted into flow fields which influence the particles.
We hope this generative identity will reflect the procedural nature of many of the invited artists work. Vera will keep you posted.
the library is getting nearer to being actually useful. it now creates new collada materials and effects for you as needed without writing a line of extra code.
Maybe you have already noticed a slightly female influence on this stream. Since a couple of days, Marcus is sharing his lovely stuka with me and I´m happy to contribute with my own thoughts, ideas and projects.
Besides collaborating with him on some interactive projects, i mainly keep myself busy with curation and dedicated project management for arts and design, for media arts festivals, exhibitions and workshops. Take a look at my (improvised) website for info on some of my projects.
i'll be moving to London shortly to start working on a few freelance projects during the next months and would love to share a flat with other friendly creatives. Therefore i'm looking for a nice & reasonable priced room in the Shoreditch/ Hoxton Sq/ Victoria Park/ Bethnal Green area. Looking to move in ASAP.
I'm social/ friendly/ tidy/ dedicated/ up for a drink/ able to import good german beer as well as able to prepare great Wiener Schnitzel and other good food.
Let me know if you have or know of a nice place - please contact me via einbekannterfernsehstar [at] gmail * com
it’s still quite basic and only exports triangles without any material information.
however there have been major refactorings under the hood that will allow to add new features much easier.
it might output garbage when you try to do something clever but give it a go
- your comments & critics are appreciated!
Students from the Kassel School of Arts and Design have created seven unique micro-architectural concepts for this year’s Tendence Lifestyle in Frankfurt: unique spaces and environments to tear you away from the traffic of the fair. They invite without courting, they intoxicate without overexciting. They span a room in which you can spread out, stretch out your body and mind. Talking, playing, reading, making music, or just staring into the space are explicitly encouraged – whether it be by swinging inside “Hängeparty” (Michael Bohl, Marijan Severdija), by contemplatively ripping cardboard in “Raum 6” (Johann Schorr, Uwe Kramer, Timo Bäcker), being freed from your cell phone in the “Magnetfeld” (Aiko Telgen), a cozily padded rubble container installation, by listening to the sound of rain in atrium of “RegenBogen,” (Leonard Wilkop, Paul Ertel), by gazing at your personalized starry sky in “Orbiter” (Vera-Maria Glahn, Marcus Wendt), shielded under the cupola of “Umbrella Dome” (Denise Pacheco, Andreas Brethauer), or sheltered as if in snail shell in “Meerdinger” (Christof Binder, Veit Wolfer) which simultaneously offers a projection screen for images and dreams. The lounge invites its visitors to linger, relax, sleep, dream, and contemplate.
Two current chair prototypes, “Tuesday” (Jens Otten) and “Reversible Seat” (Annika Frye) will also be on display.
By entering the micro-architectures, you leave the main hall of the trade show behind. You lose yourself and dive into a world of other dimensions. Big and small blur together, the everyday disappears and meanings are relaxed but also sharpened by purposeful interventions.
This interdisciplinary group of designers, supervised by Oliver Vogt, Professor of Industrial Design, and Dipl. Des. Heike Lehrmann, consists of students of Product Design, Architecture and Visual Communication at the Kassel School of Art and Design / University of Kassel.
