Weltraumgrafik, Berlin

Meta

Deutsches Museum
2024, February 09 - September 22

Infinity Room Video Installation

As part of the special exhibition „Metaverse: Phenomenal Digital“ at Deutsches Museum Nuremberg, we produced an immersive installation to picture our view towards the „Metaverse“.
Together with the architects of Museeon, Berlin, the curators of Deutsches Museum, Japanese soundartist Makoto Shozu and the technical realisators of Graphscape, Berlin we planned and created an audiovisual piece in a 360° mirror room.

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and ⟶ here.

In relation to the term metaverse, the prefix meta- describes the seamless transition between the analog and digital world.

Similar to how the metaverse presents a digitized version of a human character, in the room installation „Meta“ we have attempted to create an analog representation of the digital world.

On the one hand, we use mirrors and projection to depict the visitor’s avatarisation, thus creating a Selfie-space. On the other hand, video and sound content describe the virtual character of the Metaverse in which we create a cosmos that is controlled in an inhuman way by data and algorithms.

In our work process, we have tried to avoid the subjectivity of our personal perception to emphasize our concern about this form of technical emulation and created content that is designed and animated according to randomized specifications and formulas.

This creates a strange but also fascinating emptiness that appears rational and objective, although there is absolutely no specific content.

Design, Animation
Phil Max Schöll

Composition & Sounddesign
Makoto Shozu

Concept, Architecture
Museeon, Berlin

Technical Production
Graphscape, Berlin

Exhibition
Metaverse: Phenomenal Digital

Location
Deutsches Museum Nuremberg

Photo
Boris Brackrock
Deutsches Museum Nuremberg

Helix

Lux Helsinki
2024, January 03-07

Videomapping Helsinki Cathedral

For Lux Helsinki 2024, we produced a videomapping for one of Helsinki’s most remarkable buildings, the Helsinki Cathedral.
With temperatures dropping below -20°, Helix was exhibited during the period of January 3rd to January 7th, 2024.

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"Helix" explores the interplay between two contrasting worlds: a rational, digital perspective often associated with the future, and a human, intuitive and emotional viewpoint often regarded nostalgically.

The installation begins in an abstract digital setting of grids, lines, and patterns, which initially presents itself as a provider of clarity and meaning. However, as the piece progresses, small instabilities reveal themselves, causing the lines of the grid to bend. We recognise that the system is fallible and incomplete in capturing the nuances of human nature and we end up in a state of beautiful disorder.

„As artists active in the Digital Arts field, our intention is to highlight the ongoing conflict between trusting our personal perception of beauty and creation, and relying on formulas, numbers, programs, and the ever-expanding possibilities of technology.

In "Helix", we employ a dramaturgy that transitions from a purely abstract, digital, and rational perspective to a more tangible, more human and more magical form of experience.“

Design, Animation, Concept
Phil Max Schöll

Composition & Sounddesign
Makoto Shozu

Technical Production
Sun Effects

Festival / Curation
Lux Helsinki

Location
Helsinki Cathedral

Photo
Superreel, Helsinki

The Wind

Signal Festival Prague
2021, October 14-17

Videomapping Signal Festival

The Wind premiered on the 14th October 2021 at Signal Festival Prague and was experienced as a large-scale videoinstallation over the course of 4 days by about 300.000 viewers.

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For Signal's 2021 Festival Topic "Plan C", Berlin-based Weltraumgrafik have conceived an abstract and hypnotic projection about the cycle of crisis, chaos, tragedy and future.

By abstractly translating certain scenes from film history and symbols from the origin of dramaturgy, "The Wind" tries to determine conflict as an inseparable part of every evolutionary process.
We live the way we tell our stories.

Divided into two parts, the recent past and the near future, "The Wind" tries to provide a positive attitude towards change and transformation.

Design, Animation, Concept
Phil Max Schöll

Composition & Sounddesign
Julian Stetter

Additional Sound
Makoto Shozu

Technical Production
Visionfactory

Festival / Curation
Signal Festival Prague

Location
Church of St. Cyril and Methodius, Prague

Photo
Tomas Slavik

The Cave

Cave Altenstein
Thuringia

Five Audiovisual Installations at Cave Altenstein

For the reopening of Altenstein Cave in Bad Liebenstein, Thuringia, we created five audiovisual installations that narrate the history of the cave over a timeline of 285 million years.

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The episodes showcase the transformation from reef to cave, the life of the cave bear, the discovery and illumination of the cave by Georg I, and the performance of Echo concerts in the early 19th century.

Each installation offers a unique experience highlighting the significance of Altenstein Cave throughout its long history.

We utilized several different techniques for the production of these episodes, including classical narrative cartoon animation, generative AI content for the portrayal of extinct animals, Iosono Spatial 3D Audio, and we edited a 1.5 million point cloud scan of the cave into an animation.

Design, Animation, Concept
Phil Max Schöll

Composition & Sounddesign
Lukas Taido

Technical Production
InSynergie, Bonn

Location
Cave Altenstein
Schweina, Thuringia