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“Every day we input our personal information to clouds of data. At the same time we witness the birth of human-like artificial intelligence. Imagine your avatar as a self-minded clone of yourself, trained to assist you in your daily tasks. Maybe the era of keyboards is coming to an end. Maybe soon all we will do is speak to screens?”
interactive light installation, using 800m of double-sided LED strips, a high-framerate infrared camera, a sound system with four speakers and a microphone, running on custom software and hardware
Selected shows:
- Khroma New Media Museum – Berlin, Germany, 05/2023-08/2024
- NXT Museum – Amsterdam, Netherlands, 06/2022–09/2023
- Kolonia Artystów – Gdańsk, Poland, 09/2021
Khroma New Media Museum, Berlin (DE), 05/2023-08/2024
Concept, design, code: Ksawery Kirklewski
Sound design: Arkadiusz Krupiński
Tech management: Jakub Kirklewski
NXT Museum, Amsterdam (NL), 06/2022–09/2023
“Unidentified Fluid Object” exhibition
Curator: Bogomir Doringer
Concept, design, code: Ksawery Kirklewski
Sound design: Arkadiusz Krupiński
Tech management: Jakub Kirklewski
Arek Krupiński on sound design: "My goal was to design the complementary sound for the light installation, in which a flat screen plays the role of an entrance to the metaverse and also a tool to explore it. The size of the installation, the cubature of the room, and the bottom-to-top flow of the animation convinced me to use a vertical quadraphony (4 speakers). To create a feeling of discovering new places in sound, I decided to use a virtual modular system (VCV Rack) that allows for a great plasticity during the process of construction."
"The overall sound space consists of several layers. Some of them are being constantly generated, and the others flow with their own fixed rhythm, scrolling through the sonic worlds. Each of the layers has a different length, different articulation and a different character. Thanks to this approach, we obtain the polyrhythmic effect. The layers react to each other, and are also triggered by the visuals, including the cameras. The entire audiovisual system is tangled together by a mass of connections, to keep the overall feeling consistent. You can even say that you are dealing with an audiovisual instrument. For everyone who stands in front of the camera it will be a slightly different experience – your unique personal way of interacting with the factors will produce a new mutation of the whole system."
Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk (PL), 09/2021
Concept, design, code: Ksawery Kirklewski
Tech management: Jakub Kirklewski
Sound design: Arek Krupiński