artefacts
of moments
memory shapes are personal memory storages in form of physical objects, which emerge from individually recorded life data of a person and which thus in their entity form a sculpture that grows along with you.
These archives may function as individual life documentation for oneself, for others or for following generations.
As one person's memory shapes are in each case unique in their form of storage and appearance, the information recorded by them is not immediately accessible for new observers, but become only perceptible by giving intense attention to the object.
this project emerged during summer 2007 as my intermediate diploma project.
visit the project website:
www.memoryshapes.com
recorder
for everyday
life's
patterns
table recorder
is an every day life musical instrument in shape of a table. Moments of touching the table top are being recorded and sonified by little bolds pounding continuous against every day objects inside the table.
These moments fade gradually until they eventually disappear from the table's memory and it quiets down again.
The objects inside the table may be exchanged within drawers.
The table sonifies daily actions in a subjective way. It raises consciousness of the use of the table and
grows from passive to active participant of everyday life.
It reinterprets the functioning of domestic objects inside the table by turning them into musical instruments and thus creates a playful, exploratove situation.
the project emerged during winter semester 2007
to the subject "game or play".
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videos
flickr photoset
collecting
colours
The »Farbensammler« (colour collector) is a little box with which one can
record colours from one’s environment and then transfer those collected
colourings to a computer to file.
The gadget and the software were generated within the context of the short-time project »input/output and things between« in the digital basics class. The assignment was to turn a cardboard box into a reactive object by means of a microcontroller.
On its lower surface the colour collector has three photo resistors, which in each case react to red, green or blue light. Holding those in front of a
coloured surface, the microcontroller can identify and save this colour due to the three merits.
When connected to a computer, the colour collector transfers the collected colours to a Java programme, where the colours are sorted with date specification in chronological order.
screenshot of the color collector programme.
here is a video of all boxes made for the short-time project:
video documentation [3min, 10mb, quicktime]
design
processing + altered bézier curves (2006)
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installation
»between« is an accessible video installation in which the local and temporal interspaces of a place emerged from historical changes are visualised.
The area of the former central slaughter house at Landsberger Allee in Berlin, which was built in 1881 based on plans by Hermann Blankenstein, symbolizes, as many other places in the former eastern part of Berlin as well, the constant and extreme changes which came about in Berlin during the 20th century:
Vacancy after World War One, revival and extension during the times of the Weimarer Republik, total destruction during the Second World War, rapid reconstruction and transition into a nationally-owned enterprise, vacancy again and partial demolition after the German reunification.
In 2005 the restructuring was begun, which enabled the institution of a public park and which envisages the settlement of small manufactures. With the integration of the remaining steel-
skeletons of some halls, the park has gained the character of a walkable monument.
To visualise this spatial change and its eventual public redefinition, first of all I developed an animation starting from two seamless 360° pictures, in which a transition from the inside to the outside of the hall is created through means of peeling off hall-fragments.
The peeling-off process of the various architectural interspaces which are defined by the steel structure, bit by bit allows the present to show from the perspective of the past, thus revealing temporal interspaces.
In order to achieve a depiction that measures up to the 360° animation, it is projected by four projectors onto four screens hanging together in the shape of a cube. An accessible room is generated, which makes the spatial changes of the depicted place tangible all around to the viewer.
Photoshop and After Effects were used for the realisation of the animation, Max/MSP Jitter for the projection.
This work was created in 2006 on the subject
of
»interspaces« at the basics class at the UdK.
video [1’13, 7mb, quicktime]
photos
birds flying
+
installation
this project has its origins in a photo i took of birds in the snow and which i then interconnected with lines.
by means of these lines, the former separately appearing birds were combined to a coherent form which one did not appreciate consciously before.
to examine this process more closely, i designed a routine in max/msp jitter which connects every single bird of a flying flock with all others in real time.
this works both for video files and live stream.
screenshots
formations
collages
these are five short video collages i created for different occasions in 2004.
mostly these works have an exploring motivation in which i was concerned with my then local and social environment.
all videos are in quicktime.
'one person has many faces' - especially when present and past meet, when certain sequences of a moment run backwards or faster and thus clash, when all becomes blurred or merely details remeain distinguishable.
when thinking of a close person, we inevitably try to imagine his/her face, but it does not keep still. it is rather fragments of time, arbitrarily connected, we think of.
video [1’39, 12mb, music by steve reich]
containers in the harbour are, looked at differently, just huge colourful building bricks inscribed with company logos. arranged as if looking at them through a caleidoscope, the cold industrial aesthetic turns into a warm, almost psychedelic nursery-world.
video [1’15, 9mb, music by icarus]
is it an animation concealed behind a black silhouette or an organic creature?
like an organic-detector a streak pulls slowly over the display window and exposes the liveliness as a trick.
video [1’25, 10mb, music by tortoise]
the most widespread interface between virtual and real world is still the well tried computer keyboard. used itself as innumerable mataphors since, the arrangement of the keys seems like the map of a familiar place.
this familiar place i have documented.
video [0’49, 6mb, music by boards of canada]
faces, strung like not collected passport photographs in a shop window of a photo studio. each photo was ornamented by someone with a marker.
these small pictures have once been glued to my room's door in my old flat. everybody visiting me was free to ornament one photo, so that eventually, each of the 87 pictures had been individually alienated, refurbished or at least scrawled on.
for documentation i filmed this door. to bring out the process of filing, i mixed these faces with pictures from encyclopedia.
video [1’45, 11mb, music by steve reich]
