SVEN SAUER - Exponentiell
Exponentiell
LIGHT & SOUND
CONCEPT
Dealing with exponential numbers is difficult. Perhaps because our lives are linear? These numbers seem insignificant but have gigantic consequences. They are not necessarily always negative, but they also go in the opposite direction.
The installation shows, in real time, the irretrievable extinction of a species on our planet in the year 2035. The work addresses the problem of understanding processes that lie outside our linear understanding of time. Exponential numbers only become comprehensible to us when we look at them from the future.
Beginning with the fact that a life form dies out on our planet every 9.6 minutes at present, Sven Sauer continues this process in a mathematically sober manner and creates a view of what this development could look like in 2035.
ARTIST
SVEN SAUER
Sven Sauer is a Berlin based artist. Focusing on the connection between social movements and local structures in megacities, his mostly audiovisual installations expose symptoms of society and show the pace of our development-orientated technology, which seems to have overwhelmed the human capacity for absorption. He usually does not express a firm opinion but rather leads viewers to question their own point of view.
Cofounder of the art collective ‘360 minutes art’, from 2016, he also created large exhibitions and art festivals in Berlin with the groups ‘The Dark Rooms Exhibition’ and ‘Wir im Raum’. His work also range through the theatre and to the VFX, working on international film productions – such as ‘AtomicBlonde’, ‘Hugo Cabret’ and ‘Game of Thrones’.
Camera: Fabian Frost // Edit: Frank Sauer
Radiante - Verge
VERGE
LIGHT & SOUND
CONCEPT
“Verge,” the latest audiovisual installation by Radiante, transforms immersive spaces into a sensory journey at the boundary where the familiar fades into the unknown. It explores the enigmatic realm where intuition is vividly felt yet remains undefined. Combining laser lights, digital LEDs, robotics, atmospheric particles, and immersive video projections, the installation creates a mesmerizing experience that blurs the line between perception and mystery.
Supported by the Spanish Embassy in Berlin
ARTIST
Radiante
Radiante Light Art Studio, led by Manuel Conde, merges technology and art to create, produce, and install artworks, projects, and exhibitions, including lighting and video designs for performing arts. Radiante’s works range from Burningman to architectural lighting, showcasing its innovative exploration of light and its effects on human experience.
Ivan Llopis is a conceptual music composer who draws inspiration from multiple music genres. Banjo Soundscapes, his own creative sound studio, has collaborated with some of the most well-known brands in the world creating bespoke soundscapes.
Supported by
XAVI BOVÉ STUDIO - LUNAR OSCILLATIONS
LUNAR OSCILLATIONS
LIGHT & KINETIC
CONCEPT
This ‘site-specific’ light and sound installation is inspired by the moon’s influence on the seas and oceans and on living beings. By transforming the space with a moving set of lights and shadows, it explores the sensations that an individual can experience; a kinetic light and sound contemplative intervention about the perception of a variable environment, a universe of stars and dynamic moons.
ARTIST
XAVI BOVÉ STUDIO
Xavi Bové Studio is a digital art studio that creates unique audiovisual experiences through light, image, and music. The focus of their work revolves around the intersection of art and technology, exploring concepts such as time, memory, human perception, and the interaction between individuals and their surroundings.
Supported by
Samuele Barretta - Luce Disco - Ideale
LUCE DISCO - IDEALE
LIGHT & SOUND
CONCEPT
Luce Disco-Ideale explores the dynamic relationship between electronic music and club lighting, merging mirror balls, beams, and electronic sounds to craft a fully immersive, multi-sensory environment. Upon entering a darkened room filled with fog, you’ll find yourself surrounded by scattered reflections from mirror balls, casting faint points of light that create a subtle sense of disorientation. As the music gradually intensifies, so do the lights, with moving beams cutting through the fog like lasers, shaping a surreal, parallel reality.
This fusion of light and electronic sound transcends aesthetics, evolving into a unified art form that transforms how space and reality are perceived.
ARTIST
Samuele Barretta
Samuele Barretta’s relationship with light is deeply intimate and personal. Drawing from club culture technologies, he creates immersive light and sound artworks that blend cutting-edge tools with everyday elements like home light bulbs. His installations often reflect the darker, more introspective aspects of his personality, but are equally capable of erupting into vibrant, blinding energy displays.
Electronic music serves as the universal language he communicates, merging sound and light into multi-sensory experiences that invite audiences to explore new ways of perceiving emotion and space.
SAMUELE BARRETTA
The Fake Factory - IN THE FLOW
IN THE FLOW
IMMERSIVE ART SHOW
CONCEPT
What it feels like to be immersed within the flow a computer-generated form of art?
One of the characteristics of immersive digital art is dynamism, vitality, being made up of a seamless flow of data, which generate different shapes, colours, symbols and meanings. The generative algorithms of digital art seem to reproduce the same patterns that nature itself generates.
So a set of numerical and mathematical calculations becomes a flow that we humans perceive as sea waves. The border between reality and illusion becomes very thin. The solution is to let go and become part of the flow ourselves.
To fully experience immersive digital art, the visitor must open their senses and let themselves go, until they get lost in the flow.
ARTIST
The Fake Factory
Award-winning studio specializing in videoart, videomapping, immersive experiences and new media art projects.
THE FAKE FACTORY created visuals and curated visual installations for public and private institutions in prestigious contexts worldwide.
Its founder, Stefano Fake, is currently one of the main Italian representatives of the new digital art form known as IMMERSIVE ART EXPERIENCE, and he created some of the most successful exhibitions in the world.
Gentilhomme Studio - ENTøPTIC
ENTøPTIC
CONCEPT
ENTøPTIC is a multimedia performance by Gentilhomme, exploring the concept of entoptic phenomena—visual effects that arise from within the human eye.
Just like hallucinations, entoptic phenomena cannot be shared with others as a direct and specific image. With ENTøPTIC, viewers are invited to experience the complex beauty of perception via dynamic visual and auditory landscapes.
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Gentilhomme Studio
Based in Montreal since 2014, Gentilhomme is a multimedia entertainment studio that conceptualizes and produces turnkey interactive experiences that generate deep emotional connections. From airport permanent multimedia experiences to interactive installations and brand activations, our tight-knit multidisciplinary team works together to push the boundaries of creativity.
Normal Studio - Road Trip
ROAD TRIP
CONCEPT
Road Trip is an immersive, multisensory experience that invites visitors to embark on a journey inspired by the great travelers of history. This unique adventure takes you to destinations that exist only in our dreams and collective imagination.
The experience is divided into five distinct areas, each crafted to engage a different sense and create a full sensory immersion. Whether you’re cruising along the open highway or navigating through a whimsical car wash, each area offers a new and exciting perspective.
The soundtrack, curated with a selection of classic hits from various eras, is designed to evoke nostalgic memories and emotions.
ARTIST
Normal Studio
Established in Montreal since 2009, Normal Studio is a multidisciplinary creative studio renowned for its immersive and evocative visual storytelling.
With a full-time team of 40 professionals and a vast network of specialized collaborators, Normal Studio is active across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Their expertise spans from engaging narratives to evocative scenographies filled with mesmerizing imagery, lights, and sounds, making them a prominent force in the global creative industry.
Iregular - As Water Falls
As Water Falls
CONCEPT
Nature is alive and ever-changing, and so are Iregular’s artworks; AS WATER FALLS is a free-flowing digital waterfall that continuously evolves with alternating patterns and visuals that are never the same. This virtual cascade is also accompanied by a changing soundscape, elevating the immersion level and accentuating the power of this natural phenomenon.
ARTIST
Iregular
Iregular is a Montreal-based digital art studio that creates, produces and tours large-scale interactive artworks for public art and immersive spaces.
At the crossroads between art and technology, these artworks experiment with geometry, light, sound, typography, mathematics, algorithms, communication protocols, AI, and machine learning. Iregular also develops its own proprietary technologies.
France Jobin & Markus Heckmann - ENTANGLEMENT
ENTANGLEMENT
CONCEPT
By delving into the profound realm of quantum physics and artistic performance, this multi-work project daringly fuses scientific inquiry and creative vision.
Inspired by the intricate theories of quantum entanglement, notably the Copenhagen interpretation and the multiverse (quantum decoherence) the project is further enriched – and challenged – by exploring the fluidity of time and the enigmatic principle of quantum entanglement.
In its fourth version/iteration Entanglement invites you to lose yourselves in this boundless expanse of creativity, where the borders between reality and imagination dissolve, leaving them suspended in time and in a state of wonder.
ARTISTS
France Jobin & Markus Heckmann
France Jobin
France Jobin’s audio art, referred to as “sound-sculpture”, distinguishes itself by a minimalist approach to complex sound environments. Since the mid-1990s, she has crafted meticulous compositions at the intersection of analog and digital. Her installations follow a parallel route, integrating musical and visual elements inspired by the architecture of diverse locations. Jobin has produced numerous solo albums under various renowned labels and her concerts and installations have been presented in several cities around the world.
Markus Heckmann
The media artist Markus Heckmann studied media technology at the TU Ilmenau and the Bauhaus University Weimar, before he started work as Technical Director for Derivative (Toronto, Canada) in 2006. In this capacity, Heckmann is primarily engaged in product development, technical support, outreach, and education.
In his artistic work he combines the aesthetics of generative computer graphics with the physical properties of light. For his media performances Heckmann uses Derivative’s software TouchDesigner to develop new visual instruments, which allow him to perform live with the music. The visual worlds created in this way are far removed from any representation but bring the medium itself to dream. Colors, shapes and movements draw imaginary spaces that Heckmann explores and documents with virtuosity. The artwork is created in the same moment in which it is viewed.
In his artistic work he combines the aesthetics of generative computer graphics with the physical properties of light. For his media performances Heckmann uses Derivative’s software TouchDesigner to develop new visual instruments, which allow him to perform live with the music. The visual worlds created in this way are far removed from any representation but bring the medium itself to dream. Colors, shapes and movements draw imaginary spaces that Heckmann explores and documents with virtuosity. The artwork is created in the same moment in which it is viewed.
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