Ulf Langheinrich :: Land IV
Kris Verdonck :: Frieze
3D FILM, AUDIO-VISUAL COMPOSITION AND LIGHT ENVIRONMENT, 2011
The work consists of video and distorted visual defects, which in professional language are called ‘noises’. The effect is achieved by combining existing video images with mathematically recreated fractal sound waves. This technique creates a stereoscopic effect, known as 3D.
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Pulsing images move from one phase to another mathematically, discovering a beauty inherent in the living world. The artist is interested in texture, static and in motion, the movement per se, by itself, whether physical or programmed. This is an attempt to construct immersive environment. Langheinrich lives and works in Accra (Ghana). He is an artist of new media. His visual work is characterized by high-resolution images, pulsating plans, visual vibrations that are in tune with what might be described as choreographed sonic landscape, he produces works which overload and disorientation of the senses. In 1991 Langheinrich and Kurt Hentschlager collaborated in a project called Granular Synthesys. Exhibitions and performances by the duo took the world by storm. Since 2003 Langheinrich works independently. To date, he implemented projects such as DRIFT, WAVEFORM, HEMISPHERE (hemispherical film). One of the most recent works - LAND, the first stereoscopic film was originally commissioned for the Liverpool Biennial 2008 by FACT, Britain's biggest promoter, which exhibits and supports innovation and artists in film, video and new media. In 2005 Langheinrich became a ‘star artist’ at Ars Electronica. He is now a lecturing professor at the universities around the world. Working together with Japanese dancers Akemi Takei, and Toshiko Oyva, resulted in projects such as MOVEMENT A, MOVEMENT C, MOVEMENT X. In addition to achievements in art, Langheinrich is also a musician and artist, studied photography, composed soundtracks for several German films.
‘This is my latest artistic research in digital illusion. It consists of two key elements: the records of wave structures on the shores of Accra, the capital of Ghana and micro-wave systems of formulas, programming fractal noise. The captured material and formulas generate noise on the screen, shifting some of the parameters. As a result solid matter is transformed into a recognizable shape and consistency ... This study is based on the study of vision and sound as a form of sonic imagination. On the other side cold, technological and synthetic reality hides something intuitively warm: something deep ...’.
Key words: vibration, stereoscopy, sensing, new media, video art
