Martin Hesselmeier

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Feeding themselves with Noise

Nominee of the digital sparks award 2006

University / department

KHM Kunsthochschule der Medien Köln
Mediengestaltung

University URL

» http://www.khm.de

Project supervisor

Frans Vogelaar

Supervisor commentary

Small robots that perform dancing patterns react to sound, and thus to each other(s noises). The documentation of this performance and thus its “materialization” was done in an instalative process. This “materialization”, was based on the technique of photograms, actualizing this old tradition.

Course abstract

Within the “route” seminar time-based spatial notations were investigated and developed. Traditional techniques as well as contemporary instruments were examined. The topologies of the route-networks were researched. Strategies for developing the networks and for building of nodes were designed.

Relation to the research area

The field of „Hybrid Space“ focuses on the combinations of analog and digital space. The in-formation of materials and the materialization of information are central research themes within this field.