The Collection Wall, an immersive interactive image archive, is part of the exhibition »What does this have to do with me?« at Marchivum, the Mannheim City Archive.

Visitors can playfully explore a collection of more than 5,000 individual images, galleries and films from Mannheim’s post-war decades up to the present. The images are arranged according to the themes of democracy, memory and diversity. The four large-format touchscreens in 4K resolution offer visitors an immersive experience. The application uses Particular, a GPU accelerated particle system, which I recently released on GitHub.

The application was developed on behalf of finke.media, the UI design was done in collaboration with Studio S/M/L.

The exhibition aims to convey an understanding that our free democratic basic order cannot be taken for granted, but must always be defended against anti-democratic tendencies by all of us.

Concept/exhibition design: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Tatwerk/finke.media, prjktr, Stacey Spiegel

Curators: Karen Strobel, Sebastian Steinert, Stacey Spiegel, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Nieß, Dr. Christian Groh, Dr. Marco Brenneisen

Project management: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Nieß with support by Silvia Köhler

Work:
UI design, frontend development in JavaScript/WebGL/three.js

The interactive exhibit ›Dinner at the White House‹ at the Kennedy Center, Washington DC, introduces visitors to dinners hosted by the Kennedy White House, which featured prominent artists, writers, musicians, and cultural figures. A series of touchscreens allows visitors to learn about the historic guests and to propose which contemporary guests they would invite today. Quotes from the invitees appear on the surface of the table suggesting the themes and connections between them.

The table is part of the permanent exhibition ›Art and Ideals: President John F. Kennedy‹, which has been designed by creative director Abbott Miller of Pentagram in collaboration with architects KieranTimberlake, consulting curator Ileen Gallagher and an advisory committee of five leading U.S. historians.

The installation was developed on behalf of TheGreenEyl. I collaborated on the UI design and developed the backend and frontend software. Art direction and project management: Richard The, content and design: Ardak Mukanova, Jiangnan Nichole, Rozi Zhu, sound design: Marian Mentrup.

Work
UI design, back- and frontend development in JavaScript/WebGL/three.js

Interactive 3D models in Three.js were developed on behalf of Monomango to create a rich virtual experience of the functionality of the ZEISS Tumor Workflow devices.

The ZEISS KINEVO® 900 robotic visualization system features like PointLock and PositionMemory can be explored via mouse or touch interaction and the device reacts just like in real-life.

In Vivo Pathology Suite ZEISS CONVIVO® allows real-time feedback on tissue microstructure and enables medical team members to remote-access in vivo images.

ZEISS INTRABEAM® 600 uses Intraoperative radiotherapy for the treatment of brain metastases and recurrent brain tumors.

Showroom

Concept, design, production: Monomango
Software Development - Showroom: Apilia
3D model interaction & coding: Markus Lerner

Services
Interaction design, JavaScript/WebGL/three.js programming

The interactive visual archive ›Kurt Weill Cosmos‹ is part of the new permanent exhibition at the Kurt Weill Centre in Dessau, located in the Bauhaus Masters’ House of Feininger/Moholy-Nagy.

Visitors can explore the interrelations of people, places and works and discover unexpected connections and relationships while listening to referenced tracks on the audio guide. Slideshows of record covers, stage design and photos provide further insights into the life of Kurt Weill.

The Visual Archive

Coding: Markus Lerner
UI design: Kilian Krug and Markus Lerner
Exhibition design: Plural Severin Wucher and Frank Übler
Curation: Prof. Dr. Andreas Eichhorn
Media planning: asignum Sven Schneider
Construction/carpentry: neubauen.design Anne Schulz, Sebastian Bockrandt
Director of Kurt Weill Centre: Joachim Landgraf
Building/architecture: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau / Bruno Fioretti Marquez, 2010-2014

Services
UI design, JavaScript/React.js/d3.js programming, backend development in Node.js/MySQL

The ›Wünschespeicher‹ or ›Database of Hopes‹ was developed for the permanent exhibition at Futurium Berlin.

The interactive installation featuring four touchscreen terminals and a large scale 4K infinity mirror display allows visitors to enter their wishes about the future. An AI automatically checks for similarities and assigns the wishes to categories.

The frontend and backend were developed on behalf of ART+COM, who designed and produced the installation.

Services
JavaScript/React.js/WebGL/three.js programming, backend development in Node.js/MySQL.

Forgotten Heritage is a visual database of artists and artworks of the European avant-garde. Several art archives across Europe have brought together about 8,000 entries and made them tangible in their context. Visitors can immerse themselves in the world of avant-garde artists from Poland, Estonia, Croatia, France and Belgium, who were active in the second half of the 20th century. The sophisticated design opens up a fascinating network of works, artists and places of action.

The project is the recent implementation of The Visual Archive, a technology developed by Plural, which facilitates the display of digital collections and datasets.

Using web technologies like React.js, d3.js and pixie.js, the application lets people interact with archival data in new ways and make hidden connections graspable. For the curation of the content, the sophisticated Visual Archive Backend system makes it easy for both professional and less tech-savvy users to edit large amounts of data.

In Collaboration with Marika Kuźmicz of Fundacja Arton and Kilian Krug.

Services
UI/UX design, frontend/backend/database development

A large 17 x 5 m LED wall is the central element of the new corporate museum of filter manufacturer Mann+Hummel in Ludwigsburg, Germany. 5,670 filter elements are mounted onto monochrome LED tiles. Accompanying the screen, an extensive audio system enhances the room with differentiated sound. The subject of the audiovisual experience are information and visualisations about the company’s expertise, locations and statistics. The context is provided by neon light words, which surround the LED area.

A custom control software was developed by Markus Lerner to facilitate the display of generative real-time animations, bar and line charts as well as a world map, which highlights the global locations of the company. The application features an intuitive timeline editor for the design and arrangement of the content. Besides the DMX output for the LED display, the software also controls the sound and the neon lights.

The animations were designed in collaboration with TheGreenEyl, Berlin.

LED wall design: TheGreenEyl in collaboration with Holzer Kobler Architekturen. Audiovisual engineering: Stefan Helling. Sound design: Ben Lukas Boysen.

Work
Animation Design, Screen Design, Java/OpenGL/Shader programming, DMX control

A high-resolution interactive multitouch map was developed for the National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the 15th international architecture exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.

It provides insights into the geography and landscape of the UAE, as well as the diversity in typology of the Emirati National House, also know as the Sha’abi (folk) housing model, applied across the Emirates.

Multiple visitors simultaneously are able to zoom in to neighborhoods to examine their qualities and view photographs documenting the unique features of the Sha’abi houses. An overview map, where the currently selected map areas are indicated, provides general orientation within the country.

The Emirate National house was introduced in the 1970s to settle transient population and provide modern amenities. Architecturally it was based on a courtyard housing typology derived from traditional precedents. As the resident’s needs evolved, a series of changes took place: functional ones likes the addition of rooms, enlargement of living spaces and the raising of enclosure walls to ensure privacy as well as aesthetic or symbolic ones: replacing entrance doorways and repainting outer walls. These modifications resulted in visual diversity, moving away from a monotonous appearance.

The exhibition curated by Prof. Yasser Elsheshtawy, intents to move the urban housing discourse in the UAE to one that is grounded in the every day life of its citizens.

The exhibition is open to the public from May 28 until November 27, 2016.

Update: The interactive map is on display again as part of the exhibition ›Untold Stories Retold‹ at Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi, from 07 March until 24 June 2018.

nationalpavilionuae.org
labiennale.org

Work:

Concept & UI design, hardware planning (65” 4K NEC multitouch display), software development in ReactJS and OpenLayers

The weight and the travel freedom attached to a passport vary drastically across nationalities. International visa-regulations are very complex and often non-transparent. They reflect the economical and geopolitical situations as well as the relationships of countries.

This project aims to cast some light on these structures and make it easy to find out which countries an individual of a certain nationality can travel to without a visa or with visa on arrival. The destination country can be intuitively selected by clicking/tapping the map, via the live search field or by choosing it from the country list. In the "Visa-free sources" mode, you can alternatively explore the number of countries whose nationals can enter a specific country without a visa or with visa on arrival. The GDP and population modes are added for reference. Other modes can be implemented in the future.

This web application features a responsive design which works across browsers, platforms and screen sizes, as long as WebGL is available. Since WebGL is now supported by iOS, it also works on recent iOS devices running iOS 8+. Recent Android versions are supported as well.

Travelscope is listed at Chrome Experiments and has been selected an Official Honoree in The 20th Annual Webby Awards.

Travelscope project

Work
Concept, UI Design, coding in HTML5 (Javascript/Three.js)

The second largest satellite camp of the Floss­en­bürg concentration camp was located in the town of Hersbruck, where 9,000 prisoners from all over Europe were held captive between July 1944 and April 1945. They were forced to dig a tunnel system in the Houbirg mountain for an armament factory in the nearby town of Happurg. Due to the extreme conditions in the camp and during the labor, around 4,000 prisoners died in Hersbruck and Happurg.

The Hersbruck/Happburg documentation site consists of two exhibition modules pointing to each other: a media installation in Hersbruck at the former location of the camp and an open air exhibition module in Happurg at the former place of forced labor: the prisoners were forced to commute 4.5 km by foot between these two locations all year round.

The Hersbruck installation features a projection of a 360° panoramic video of the surroundings of Hersbruck focussing on historically relevant places. A large multitouch table displaying the names of all the 9,000 known prisoners was designed and developed by Markus Lerner in collaboration with Bertron Schwarz Frey, who created the exhibition architecture for both locations. By touching the highlighted names, multiple visitors can simultaneously explore 90 representative biographies of prisoners from various countries featuring stories, animated quotes and images.

Further information
Press Release by the Bavarian State Parliament
Announcement by the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial

Locations
Hersbruck module: Badstr. 145, 91217 Hersbruck
Happurg module: Südring/An der Hunnenschlucht, 91230 Happurg

Work
Screen design, Java/OpenGL/shader programming, software edge blending across multiple screens, Kinect tracking, test setup

Words are not static. They don’t have fixed meanings. Language is constantly evolving and will continue to.

The famous German Dictionary (1838–1854/1961) by the Brothers Grimm attempts to create a “natural history of words” by focussing on associations and connections between the words rather than their abstract definitions.

Located in the newly opened Grimmwelt Kassel, Germany, “Wortarbeit” attempts to capture the visitors’ associations with words, in reference to the work of the Brothers Grimm. Within a predefined set of formulas (word connections), one word has to be explained by another word entered by the visitor. The results is a chain that grows endlessly word by word.

While one touchscreen is waiting for input, the visitors can explore the existing chain of words in various views on the other screens: chronologically, alphabetically, by popularity and through the semantic net, which reveals the complexity of the definitions entered by the visitors.

Visitors can also extend an independent chain of words in english.

The installation was designed and developed in collaboration with TheGreenEyl, Berlin, media planning by Stefan Helling.

Work
Screen Design, Java/OpenGL/Shader programming, multi-screen synchronisation

Photos
Markus Lerner

An interactive installation was developed for the ZEISS Museum of Optics in Oberkochen. It allows visitors to explore the known orders of magnitude in an interactive way.
A continuous zoom leads from the Planck length (1,616199 × 10−35 m) via atoms, microorganisms, everyday objects, countries, planets galaxies up to the size of the currently observable universe (2,80 × 1026 m).

The user controls the zoom via the distance from the projection surface: zoom-in by getting closer, zoom-out by stepping back. The speed of the zoom can be accelerated or reduced by using the hands additionally.

The project was realized in collaboration with TheGreenEyl (Concept, Art Direction, Production).

Work
Screen Design, Java/OpenGL/Shader programming, Kinect tracking

The Mendelssohn-Effektorium is a virtual orchestra at the Mendelssohn-Haus in Leipzig. It was developed and produced by WHITEvoid. Markus Lerner was commissioned for the Screen Design and OpenGL software development.

13 speakers with vertical displays are arranged behind a conductor’s stand, each one representing a different group of instruments or choir voices. Visitors can select one of the works of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy at the stand and conduct the virtual orchestra or choir by moving the coductor’s baton. The speed of the recordings is then adjusted in real-time. Voice groups can be controlled individually and different room situations can be set. The installation also allows one to compare modern and historical instruments.

The vertical screens can display the names of the voices, the sound level or an artistic interpretation of the voice groups influenced by the volume and character of each instrument/voice.

The idea for the Effektorium originated in the cooperation between Studio Bertron Schwarz Frey and WHITEvoid. Sound production and programming by Aconica.

Work
Screen Design, Java/OpenGL/Shader programming, Leap Motion tracking and OSC network control

A part of the new exhbition »The harbour – a key stimulus«, the interactive table leads through 1300 years of Hamburg history. The square table with 3.5 sqm surface area enables visitors to explore the development of the city from the Middle Ages until today.

A mechanical time wheel is used to navigate through the 11 periods. In each era, the most important changes in urban development as well as significant historical events are geographically displayed on the map, for example the North Sea flood of 1962 or the construction of the Speicherstadt. The bilingual content windows appear on different sides of the table, which enables several visitors to explore information independently. The programming was done on behalf of ART+COM (Concept, design and production).

Interactive table at »Taktgeber Hafen«
Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
Holstenwall 24
20355 Hamburg

Work
Java, OpenGL/OpenAL, GLSL shader programming, software edge blending

Technology

• Graphics PC for the real-time display
• 2 WUXGA (1920×1200 px) projectors
• Touch sensitive table surface (ART+COM)
• Acoustic shakers

Photos: Eva Offenberg, Markus Lerner

The Solar Module Designer is as an interactive application, which allows one to design and configure the most diverse forms of solar modules with ease. This tool was available as an online application, a touch screen installation for trade shows and an iPad App.

It was developed in collaboration with Plural Kilian Krug.

Due to the need for a tool that helps architects visualise the various configurations that Odersun offers, we developed this communication tool that also helps the architects integrate unusual module shapes into their design/production drafts.

The custom designed solar modules can be exported as PDF/CAD-files, which can be directly integrated in construction plans or used as a reference in module manufacturing.

Awards

The Solar Module Designer was awarded the IF Communication Design Award, the Red Dot Award and the European Design Award Bronze.

Work
Interaction Design, Programming in Flash/ActionScript 3, Backend in PHP/MySQL

The interactive »Research Table« provides an intuitive access to large databases through its large-format multitouch-surface.

Time and location data of artists, commissioners and related institutions are shown in an easily comprehensible display. Works and paths of life are being put into relation and visualized in various ways.

The Research Table was initally developed for the research project »What was German Graphic Design?« at Berlin University of the Arts. (Supervision: Severin Wucher, Kilian Krug, Markus Lerner; contributors: Ferdinand Ulrich, Patrick Funk, Cathleen Gettkandt, Mara Hellmann, Wanda Proft, Manja Schiemann).

The exhibition »Erik Spiekermann – The Face of Type« at the Bauhaus Archive, Berlin (23 March – 6 June 2011) featured an extended version of the table which gave an insight into Erik Spiekermannʼs network of partners.

The table was developed in collaboration with Plural (Kilian Krug und Severin Wucher). Frontend/Backend Design: Kilian Krug, Markus Lerner; Programming: Markus Lerner; design-academic supervision: Severin Wucher.

The project has been continued as an extended platform for the presentation of archival data under the name The Visual Archive.

 Awards

The Research Table was awarded Gold at the IF Communication Design Award and the European Design Award.

Work
Frontend-/Backend-Design (with Plural), Java/OpenGL programming, Backend: PHP/MySQL/Ajax, Hardware installation

Technology

• Graphics PC for the real-time display
• 1 Full HD Projector for back projection
• Multitouch table surface (Rear DI using CCV)

visualarchive.de
was-war-deutsches-grafik-design.de
 

A part of the “Be Berlin” campaign, the interactive table in the shape of the city of Berlin, located in the foyer of the main municipal building (Rote Rathaus) Berlin, which is visited by a large number of tourists daily, shows bilingual descriptions of sights and stories from berliners on a satellite map.

The table allows visitors to get an insight into the many attractions berlin offers with historical pictures, descriptions in german/english and trivia. The multitouch surface enables several users to explore the content at the same time. This project was done in collaboration with Felix Hardmood Beck (exhibition design, draft, consulting) and Hermann Klöckner (consulting) of ART+COM.

One can view the Be Berlin Table at the Red Town hall during working hours Monday–Friday, unless there is a private gathering.

Interactive city map
Foyer in front of the coat of arms hall (Wappensaal)
inside the Berlin Town Hall (Rotes Rathaus)
Entrance Rathausstraße
10178 Berlin Mitte

Work
Concept & design in collaboration with ART+COM, Java, OpenGL and OpenAL programming, Projector timing control

Technology

• Graphics PC for the real-time display
• 2 SXGA+ (1400×1050) projectors
• Touch sensitive table surface (ART+COM)
• Speakers

The Polygon Playground is a large scale interactive lounge object developed and produced by WHITEvoid. Markus Lerner was commissioned for the Tracking/OpenGL software development.

The object offers room for up to 40 persons at a time to walk, sit and explore its multifaceted surfaces. Gradient ramps guide to the top plateau or offer space to sit and rest. The installation features a software aided 3D surface projection system to cover the object with a seamless 360 degree projection. An additional sensory system detects peoples positions and proximity.

The visual appearance of the Polygon Playground changes continuously with the presence, movement and physical touch of its visitors. The object detects the positions and directions of people and reacts with evolving visual moods and graphic styles.

The hardware and software system of the Polygon Playground can be applied to virtually any 3D body to turn it into an interactive object.

Commission, production and art direction by WHITEvoid.

Work
Design of the interactive modes in collaboration with Christopher Bauder/WHITEvoid, Tracking/OpenGL programming in Java

Exhibitions
– 2008 “SMUK” festival, Skanderborg, Denmark
– 2009 “STRP” festival, Eindhoven, Netherlands
– 2009 FREEZE! Art Show,
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
– 2011 “I/O/I. The senses of machines”,
Disseny Hub, Barcelona, Spain

Photos: Christopher Bauder, Markus Lerner

3D Photo View is an intuitive image brower for viewzi.com.

This online application is a whole new approach to image search, allowing you to place several searchfields in a 3D space. The image results get arranged around and between the searchfields. The engine also displays images related to several searchfields and related tags.

Commission, production and art direction by WHITEvoid.

Auszeichnungen

Outstanding Achievement, IMA Interactive Media Award

Work
Concept & design in collaboration with WHITEvoid, Flash ActionScript 3/Papervision programming.

3D Photo View

An interactive screen display was developed for the OSRAM stand at the light+building trade fair in Frankfurt in collaboration with ART+COM.

Climate protection being the theme of the installation, each visitor is estimated to have the decision making power on over 1,540 tons of CO₂. This amount could be potentially reduced by implementing more efficient lighting. In order to emphasise the influence each individual has on the climate change, the number of trees necessary to compensate this CO2 emission is displayed.

A tracking camera records the number of visitors who enter the OSRAM stand in real time. Every new visitor triggers the growth of a new tree in the foreground of the screen. As the number of visitors increase the tree thicket gets denser as well.

The total number of viewers on one day, their CO2 saving potential and the corresponding number of trees are displayed on the top part of the LED screen.

Work
Design, Java and OpenGL programming

Technology

• Wall with 825.000 LEDs
• Tracking computer with fire wire camera
• Computer for the real time rendering of the display

ArtSchoolVets! is a German platform for design, music, art and fashion. Besides the continuously updated News and Features the website offers blogs for designers and artists as well as an online store where designers can sell their fashion products.

The recently introduced sections “Faces & Spaces” and “Portfolio Show” contain interviews with people from the design and music industry and the “Portfolio Show” section displays portfolios of designers and studios.

A highly customised content management system including an online shop for fashion articles was created in PHP/MySQL.

Work
Web design in collaboration with Floor5, Programming in PHP, MySQL, JavaScript

ArtSchoolVets.com

A new display for OSRAM Seven Screens in Munich was created on behalf of ART+COM, Berlin. OSRAM Seven Screens is an installation of seven double-sided vertical screens in front of the OSRAM main office in Munich, next to the highway “Mittlerer Ring”, one of the most congested roads in Munich and Germany.

For the display Reactive Sparks, the traffic on the street is tracked in real-time; each vehicle creates a spark which moves across the screens. The Waves in the lower part of the display represent the amount of traffic in the past few minutes. More traffic results in higher waves with faster movement. The installation conveys the idea of energy and movement translated it into a visual representation. The warm colours create a warm spot in the gray winter landscape. The display will run until April 2008.

Work
Idea, concept, design, Java and OpenGL programming

Technology

• 7 vertical screens with more than 750,000 RGB high-capacity LEDs
• tracking computer with firewire camera
• graphics computer for the real time rendering of the display

The Norwich Textiles website documents and the rich textile culture of the City of Norwich in the East of England.
The project was commissioned by Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service and the Norfolk School of Art and Design. It was created in collaboration with Gero Grundmann from studiobec, who also executed the Corporate Design for Norwich Textiles.

The site offers comprehensive historical content, visitor information, interactive Textile Trails and a large image database of textile pattern books, shawls, etc, which is currently being expanded.

The site is based on an individually written content management system, based on PHP/MYSQL. It includes editing of each page, user administration as well as an image and file database. The interative sections were created in a combination of Flash and AJAX.

Work
Concept, web design, Programming in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash

Norwich Textiles website

In collabration with Andre Stubbe a new generative animation for the 100 m² Vattenfall media facade in Chausseestr. 23, Berlin-Mitte, was created. The piece was developed on behalf of ART+COM.

Small glowing particles are moving in the field of big, slowly gliding spheres. The accelerated objects emit light when they hit big masses of matter. A visualized dream of energy.

The animation was generated by delegated behavior systems that are part of a selfmade simulation package. The rendering software was written in Java. The rendering time took approximately 8 hours for 3000 movie frames of 7939 x 4340 pixels resolution.

The opening took place during the Lange Nacht der Museen on 27 August 2005. The piece was screened for several months in turn with screenings by Marius Watz and Lia. The screening was repeated from March until August 2006.

Work
Idea, concept, design, Java programming, rendering

Technology

• 18 back-projections on Priva-Lite® screens
• projectors with built-in mpeg2-video memory

Three concepts for the generative display on a bar counter surface were developed in collaboration with Nadine Thieme.

Attraction
A bar is a meeting point. People meet, get closer and build personal relationships. The intensity of a contact is visualized by dynamic shapes surrounding the glasses on the bar.

Spiegelwelten
Real mirror images of people are modified in generative manner. People and their movements are shifted in space and time.

Strich & Faden
A black & white texture which reminds you of manually produced tablecloths, reacts to external impulses like movements or touch.

Work
Idea, concept, sketches in Flash and Processing, video simulations

Assignment
Pressure project: Bar! Design a dynamic surface for a bar counter or a bar table.

The flash website for the music artist Terranova was designed in collaboration with Jakob Schillinger and Floor5.

The site has an unusual concept. Three popup windows are opened simulatinuously in the layout of the Terranova logo. The user navigates from the top to the bottom. Content like news, photos, tracklists, etc. will be displayed in the lower window. Music samples and videos can be played with the integrated media player.

The site is fully based on a content management system, developed by Floor5.

Work
Concept, web design, Flash programming

Brief
Rich content website for the music artist Terranova

Terranova website

Outerspace is a reactive robotic creature with animal-like behaviour. It was developed in collaboration with Andre Stubbe. Outerspace's fundamental motivation for any behaviour is based on curiosity, the desire to explore the surrounding space looking for contact. Touch it, play with it and watch its behaviour.

The project is at the edge of art and design involving various aspects of industrial design, physical computing & artificial intelligence. It was developed on the brief “Lustobjekt”, object of pleasure & desire, in the Digital Media Class at the Berlin University of the Arts.

Awards

Outerspace received an Honorary Mention Interactive Art at the Prix Ars Electronica 2006 and is the winner of the Europrix Top Talent Award 2006.

Work
Idea, concept, design, prototyping, building, Java software development, BX-24 microcontroller programming, video editing, web design

Assignment
The given task was to create a “Lustobjekt”, a reactive physical object by means of microcontrollers and sensors.

Selected Exhibitions

– 2007 WIRED Nextfest, Los Angeles
– 2007 Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
– 2006 STRP, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
– 2005 Artbots, Dublin, Ireland
– 2005 Designmai, Berlin, Germany

Project website

Radiation culture is an interactive installation that visualizes the spatial distribution of mobile radiation.

Electromagnetic radiant energy feeds a synthetic bioindicator. The visual display uses the metaphor of algal growth in places of strong insolation. The absorption range in the electromagnetic spectrum, however, is shifted from visible light to long-wave radiation.

The installation refers to a space, where mobile sources of radiation like mobile phones are. This can be both a room inside a building and an area of public space, for example a place, where many people frequent. At places of concentrated radiation an alga-like shape begins to grow. It is loosely connected and can freely move in space.

Work
Idea, concept, design, programming in Java, video tracking

Assignment
Conceive and design a project, whose main means of expression is generativity. The choice of topic is open.

Project documentation
Programmed sketch

My intermediate diploma in the Digital Media Class deals with the relationship of anticipation and reality. A series of interactive screen applications explores the difference between the anticipated future and the actual reality.

Anticipation
Anticipation is the expectation or the mental idea of an event in the future. It originates from the ability of a subject to imagine a future. It can happen consciously or unconsciously.

Reality
The term of Reality describes the actual future reality, e.g. the consequences of an action. The mental expectations of an observer can turn out to be true or false.

Work
Research, idea, concept, design, Flash programming, documentation

Assigment
Open assigment, but the project was supposed to deal with digital media.

Documentation website

For the basic course 2002/2003 in the Digital Media Class a documentation website and CD-Rom was developed. The Basic course was supervised by Ralph Ammer.

An interactive menu in the top left corner provides access to information on the participants of the course and their works. The layout is scalable and adapts to the screen resolution automatically. The menu was designed by the group, the programming was done in collaboration with Andre Stubbe.

Work
Flash programming, CD creation

Basic course website

Interactive screen applications in collaboration with Andre Stubbe

Iteration is the mathematical term for the repeated application of a transformation.

The following experimental applications deal with the audiovisual display of iterative processes.

Work
Idea, concept, design, Flash programming

Assignment
Interactive sound:
Create an interactive application for sounds of your choice.

Interactive application

Step and track, object and shadow, cause and effect – each one of those elements is strongly connected to the other from our experience. Their chronological order is determined. This short movie is going to look into that.

Work
Idea, concept, direction, camera, editing, compositing

Assignment
Design with the medium time: create time figures, time bodies, time tracks...
Visual entities, where time is inscribed or which are formed by processes of time.