http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/ 2026-04-17T14:36:26+00:00 http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/ http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/ttp://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/lib/tpl/m1/images/favicon.ico text/html 2019-08-20T23:48:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:ai_fractals?rev=1566337700&do=diff AI Fractals visible and audible chaotic structures in an analog neural network by Wolfgang Spahn, 2019 The Installation “AI Fractals” aims at building analog neural networks as part of an analog computer in order to compute fractals, strange attractors and other chaotic structures. These generated patterns and structures shall be sonificated and visualised. text/html 2019-08-31T20:48:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:augen-auf-schlag?rev=1567277339&do=diff augen-auf-schlag An interactive sound-light-percussion-installation by Thomas Gerwin and Wolfgang Spahn, 2008 (3 Ferro-Fluid-Projectors (RGB) with Arduino controller, pane of glass with projection screen, MIDI drum pad, PC, Pure-Data-Patch, active speakers) This interactive sound-and-light-installation is a work of cooperation between the composer and sound artist Thomas Gerwin and the media artist Wolfgang Spahn. It is considered as an instrument to generate and play sounds and liquid colour… text/html 2019-08-31T20:42:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:blick_auf_die_bewegung?rev=1567276959&do=diff Blick auf die Bewegung Sound by Thomas Gerwin (PC, code, sensor, video projector, active speakers, raw egg), 2008 The installation “Blick auf die Bewegung” (peek at the movement) is an interactive photo album. By using a raw egg it is possible to interact with a computer generated projection and sound. text/html 2019-08-31T21:37:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:buy_onic?rev=1567280260&do=diff .buy.onic. Eine sich selbstkaufende Installation (6 Diakarusellprojektoren, 480 Dias, 2 C-Controller, EKG-, EMG-, Biofeedback-Schaltungen, Elektromotoren, Sensoren, Stuhl) „Denn wo immer uns konsumierbare Objekte begegnen, versuchen wir deren Konsumierbarkeit zu vertilgen, indem wir sie mit Konsumationsmaschinen (oder -personen) gleichsam kurzschließen“ Robert Pfaller, 2000 text/html 2019-08-27T16:37:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:dia_de_los_muertos?rev=1566916661&do=diff Dia De Los Muertos An Earth Worm Triggered Installation (video projector, generative code, earth worms, IR camera, active speaker), 2010 Sound by Michael Merkelbach „Dia de los muertos“ is the famous Mexican festivity at the Day of the Dead, where people celebrate and honor the deceased. Incidentally „Dia“ is also the German term for slides. Referring to both the piece presents a light kinetic installation for the dead that provides an ambient character to invite also the living visitors… text/html 2020-09-09T16:46:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:echo_state_networks?rev=1599662770&do=diff Echo State Network the sonification of the computing process in an analog neural network, 2019 The first song a computer intoned was in the 1970s when an IBM 704 at the Bell Labs sang‘ Daisy Bell’. The same song was sung by the artificial intelligence HAL-9000 in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” by Stanley Kubrick. text/html 2021-01-04T18:24:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:entangled_pixel?rev=1609781053&do=diff Entangled Pixel a multiple located video and audio feedback (two screens, two Raspberry Pi with Raspi Cams, two VGA-Blender Boards (by the artist), two VGA-Sonification Boards (by the artist), internet, power supply, cable), 2019 The sound and video installation “Entangled Pixels” is based on two separate artworks exhibited in two different spaces which are entangled via the internet. The work itself arises only through the connection of these two parts. text/html 2019-08-31T21:46:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:flirt_mit_dem_feuer?rev=1567280772&do=diff Flirt mit dem Feuer Eine SMS – aktive Installation mit 8 echten Flammen, 2002 Die Installation besteht aus einer Anordnug von 8 Öllämpchen, die mit einer Steuerelektronik verbunden sind. Jedes einzelne Feuer kann durch das Schicken von entsprechenden Aufträgen per SMS geändert werden. So kann in einer SMS in kurzer Form für jede Flamme die Brenndauer eingegeben werden. Das mit dem der Installation verbundene Handy reagiert und nimmt die SMS entgegen, sobald der Provider diese weiterleitet. … text/html 2018-10-29T19:50:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:itsorganic?rev=1540839014&do=diff It's Organic If You Look Close Enough A sonificated macro feedback from an OLED monitor, 2017 The Audio-Video-Installation It's Organic If You Look Close Enough by artist Wolfgang Spahn aims at deconstructing the so-called perfect surface that is created within the virtual sphere by contemporary digital technology. By using macrofilming to explore the surface of OLED-monitors the camera visualizes the frayed edges of the Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED's). Thus it creates images that wou… text/html 2022-04-03T22:48:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:main?rev=1649018937&do=diff Installations Pattagonian Pattern A mashup of audible and visual structures, 2021 pattagonian_pattern ---------- The Fractal Dimension of a Pixel the_fractal_dimension_of_a_pixel ---------- Echo State Networks the sonification of the computing process in an analog neural network, 2019 echo_state_networks ---------- Thermal-Acoustic-Seance a self-sufficient audio and biofeedback installation, 2019 text/html 2020-09-03T15:23:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:noctilucent?rev=1599139382&do=diff Noctilucent A truck art light installation, 2017 The media installation Noctilucent aims at re-mediating pakistani truck art. A burnt out mini-bus located on the premises of the biennale in Karachi serves as both an artefact and a canvas. By using mulitcoloured LED's to up-cycle the bus Noctilucent creates patterns that are luminous only at night or at twilight. text/html 2022-01-31T01:16:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:pattagonian_pattern?rev=1643588216&do=diff Patagonian Pattern An audio-visual mashup of Patagonian structures, 2021 The work „Patagonian Pattern“ by Wolfgang Spahn is an audio-visual exploration of the mathematical theory of chaos. At its core stands Benoit Mandelbrot's ideas of self-similarity of fractal structures in nature. Sounds of analog synthesizer and analog neural networks complements the visual aspect of self-similarity of Patagonia's nature on both huge and macro/microscopic scales. text/html 2018-08-23T15:22:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:pictures_at_an_exhibition?rev=1535030553&do=diff Pictures at an Exhibition An installation of audio/visual interference, 2014 (Raspberry Pi, Raspicam, motor, speaker, laser, DVD-Picture, monitor, projector, electric circuit, python program) Contrary to the composition of Modest Mussorgski’s text/html 2018-08-09T20:06:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:southern_cross?rev=1533838006&do=diff Southern Cross, Remediated Generative Installation, IWALEWAHAUS, Bayreuth 2015 The Installation „Southern Cross, remediated“ generates images of both the Southern Cross and our Galaxy as seen in the Southern hemisphere. The images are based on material taken from the Internet. In a process of interference and collage they provide the source from which chromaticity is generated. This technique allows to create and re-create altering images, and in doing so it simulates the movement of the st… text/html 2020-06-03T20:40:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:strangeattractors?rev=1591209644&do=diff Strange Attractors a Lorenz System controlled by an other Lorenz System, 2019 Ever since the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot geometrically described structures in nature as ‘self-similar systems’ in „How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension“ a paper published in 1967, fractal structures have remained a subject of artistic enquiry. Strange attractors in their quality of chaotic fractals constitute together with self-similar structures an important … text/html 2022-04-04T01:08:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:the_fractal_dimension_of_a_pixel?rev=1649027301&do=diff The Fractal Dimension of a Pixel (2022) A magnification of entangled, hot pixels The Installation “The Fractal Dimension of a Pixel” entangles the broken pixels of a monitor. Two video microscopes film, so called, „hot“ pixels and displays them back again on the same screen. Because both cameras films and displays at the same time, a change of one pixel will simultaneous effect the other, too. text/html 2019-11-24T16:33:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.wolfgang-spahn.com/doku.php/installation:thermal-acoustic-seance?rev=1574609602&do=diff Thermal-Acoustic-Seance a self-sufficient audio and biofeedback installation, 2019 The “Thermal-Acoustic-Seance” is a participatory sound installation. Participants power as well as control by their body temperature an electric headphone concert for up to seven people.