During his residency at OBORO, Florian Grond will experiment with space filling curves (SFCs) for a multimedia installation. SFCs have an interesting theoretical background since their core property is to linearize high dimensional content. More specifically Grond will develop an installation combining linear representations of life through video images with a classical fine arts question—the central perspective. The acoustic part of the installation is directly related to the structural properties of SFCs and will address space and time in sound.
An image is scanned through the structure of an SFC, and then it gradually unfolds and leads to a continuous stream. This stream has the characteristics of a spectrogram and could as such be turned into sound. Different colours would then compose different sounds, which would change in time and result in a travelling sound wave.
Florian Grond was born in Austria in 1975 and studied chemistry in Graz, Leicester and Tübingen. He works as a research associate at the ZKM (Center for the Art and Media in Karlsruhe), in science (non-linear dynamics, system theory) and media art. Since 2001, he has had several peer-reviewed journal publications and art installations. He exhibited in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Spain Switzerland and the USA. His recent project at the ZKM focuses on the field of scientific sonification, which is part of his PhD at Bielefed University.
http://www.grond.at/
A few links posted by the artist:
Theoretical background and movie documentation:
http://www.grond.at/html/projects/along_the_line/along_the_line.htm
Previous works:
SOL:
http://www.grond.at/html/projects/sol/sol.htm
http://www.sol-sol.de/
in collabooration with Frank Halbig andThorbjorn Lausten.
INTERMITTENT:
http://www.grond.at/html/projects/intermittent/intermittent.htm
in collaboration with Claudia Robles.
Als Hilbert merkte das der Morgen daemmerte:
http://www.grond.at/html/projects/als_hilbert_merkte_/als_hilbert_merkte_.htm
sound in collaboration with Gilles Gobeil.
Hear and NOW:
http://www.grond.at/html/projects/hear_and_now/hear_and_now.htm
http://www.anderwald-grond.net/media_content_floriangrond/hear_and_now.pdf
_zur form:
http://www.grond.at/html/projects/_zur_form/_zur_form.htm
http://www.zurform.org/
In collaboration with Gabriele Engelhardt (photography) and Thomas Kienzl (tangible desk).
