Media Art
Exhibition
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- Date(s)
- Fri, 9 Dec – Sat, 17 Dec 2022
- Duration
- Eight days
- Venue
- Kinemathek Karlsruhe
In December 2022, two students from the Media Art / Sound program at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (HfG), Seonghyeon Lee and Eunchae Won, presented interactive media artworks in the lobby of the Kinemathek Karlsruhe. The exhibition ran from December 10 to 18 (closed on Mondays), accompanying the cinema’s evening film program.
Eunchae Won exhibited the interactive installation Helpless Butterfly, an artistic video game exploring states of physical and psychological powerlessness. Through immersive gameplay, visitors were invited to enter alternative worlds which, rather than offering liberation, reflected and amplified the loss of control and passivity present in everyday life.
Seonghyeon Lee presented two interactive audio-visual works on Holger Förterer’s large-scale PhonoLuxMaschine projection system, which transforms the lobby architecture into a dynamic light canvas. In The Light and Colors, impressionistic color gradients responded to the silhouettes of viewers, captured via Kinect, surrounding them in shifting fields of color. Alternating with this, Particle Systems of Sound visualized the surrounding sonic environment: conversations, footsteps, and ambient noises animated a fluid, ring-shaped mass that expanded, contracted, and pulsed in rhythm with the sounds of the space.
The exhibition transformed the Kinemathek’s lobby into an immersive, participatory environment where visitors could experience shifting forms of perception—both visual and auditory—before and after attending the evening’s films.
Contributing Artists
Eunchae Won, Seonghyeon Lee
Production & Documentation
- General Management / Technical Coordination / Artistic Direction: Lorenz Schwarz
Collaborations
- Kinemathek Karlsruhe e.V. (venue partner)
- PhonoLuxMaschine (interactive media art projection platform by Holger Förterer)
Acknowledgments
- Samuel Israel (Kinemathek Karlsruhe) - venue coordination
- Prof. Michael Bielicky (HfG Karlsruhe)