Bathing in Lightness is an interactive audio-visual installation that reflects on our relationship with the Machine, specifically how we often perceive the apparati around us as living entities with a life of their own. The installation features a swarm intelligence inside a virtual—yet physical—goldfish bowl, exploring its miniature universe and attempting to communicate with the outside world. As the swarm imagines its own interpretation of reality, it simultaneously responds to the presence of visitors moving in front of the piece.
Drawing from a collective longing for analog, easily comprehensible mechanisms, the installation’s core element embodies the archetype of electric machines: the incandescent light bulb. This serves as an analog interface, allowing visitors to engage with a virtual being and cross the boundary into the digital realm, encouraging reflection on their relationship with artificial entities. Accompanied by a calming sonification of the swarm’s movements, the piece invites viewers to rest before it, evoking the warmth and stillness of a cozy campfire, a reminder of ancient, more leisurely times.
Simon Stimberg is an audio-visual artist whose work explores the human subjective relationship to technology, the emergence of digital life forms and the beauty of complex chaotic systems. Fascinated by nature and increasingly autonomous algorithms, he creates generative and interactive installations that immerse the viewer in artificial yet organic micro-verses. The aesthetic of his work is strongly characterized by the opposition of analog technology to digital algorithms and the repurposing of obsolete devices as tangible interfaces that enable the audience to physically engage with virtual, disembodied entities.
Coming from a musical as well as a filmic background, his works feature tightly coupled visual and musical elements that coalesce into an interconnected audio-visual language. By fusing sound and moving images, not only on a semantic level, but with a visceral connection, he strives to translate musical syntax into a visual form – composing images in categories of mood, rhythm and harmony.
His work includes audiovisual installations, live visuals, as well as video works and has been shown at various media art festivals, group exhibitions as well as in public space.
Website
simonstimberg.de
Instagram
www.instagram.com/simonpablo_
Bathing in Lightness is an interactive audio-visual installation that reflects on our relationship with the Machine, specifically how we often perceive the apparati around us as living entities with a life of their own. The installation features a swarm intelligence inside a virtual—yet physical—goldfish bowl, exploring its miniature universe and attempting to communicate with the outside world. As the swarm imagines its own interpretation of reality, it simultaneously responds to the presence of visitors moving in front of the piece.
Drawing from a collective longing for analog, easily comprehensible mechanisms, the installation’s core element embodies the archetype of electric machines: the incandescent light bulb. This serves as an analog interface, allowing visitors to engage with a virtual being and cross the boundary into the digital realm, encouraging reflection on their relationship with artificial entities. Accompanied by a calming sonification of the swarm’s movements, the piece invites viewers to rest before it, evoking the warmth and stillness of a cozy campfire, a reminder of ancient, more leisurely times.
Simon Stimberg is an audio-visual artist whose work explores the human subjective relationship to technology, the emergence of digital life forms and the beauty of complex chaotic systems. Fascinated by nature and increasingly autonomous algorithms, he creates generative and interactive installations that immerse the viewer in artificial yet organic micro-verses. The aesthetic of his work is strongly characterized by the opposition of analog technology to digital algorithms and the repurposing of obsolete devices as tangible interfaces that enable the audience to physically engage with virtual, disembodied entities.
Coming from a musical as well as a filmic background, his works feature tightly coupled visual and musical elements that coalesce into an interconnected audio-visual language. By fusing sound and moving images, not only on a semantic level, but with a visceral connection, he strives to translate musical syntax into a visual form – composing images in categories of mood, rhythm and harmony.
His work includes audiovisual installations, live visuals, as well as video works and has been shown at various media art festivals, group exhibitions as well as in public space.
Website
simonstimberg.de
Instagram
www.instagram.com/simonpablo_
