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German Lighting Design Award in Cologne

info — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:59:43 +0000

Cologne based lighting designers lightlife comissioned MXAV to create the MXWendler driven video show for the award ceremony of the second annual German Lighting Design Award.

MXAV and CitrusBros map South America

info — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 20:04:08 +0000

For already 4 projects Caracas based agency CitrusBros teamed up with MXAV to create market leading videomappings for local and global brands.
MXZEHN VJ Optoyz helped the guys over at Citrus to tame their brand new MXWendler mediaserver and introduced them into the secret arts of videomapping and realtime video performance. Optoyz on the other hand made new talented friends, learned quite some dirty words in spanish and fell in love with this oil soaked tropical concrete paradise. –> The CitrusBros on VIMEO
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PEINTURAS DE VENEZUELA – Attración de Kem Event – 09/2010
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FIESTA DE FIN DE ANO – New Years Event Plaza Altamira – 01/2011

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CHICAS DE POLAR – Polar Pilsen Calendar Release Party – 02/2011

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NOKIA N8 – Nokia Smartphone Release Event – 02/2011

Beim Thüringer Innovationspreis

info — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:02:06 +0000

Am 8. Dezember 2009 wurde in der Messe Erfurt der 12. Thüringer Innovationspreis verliehen. Die Stiftung für Technologie, Innovation und Forschung Thüringen (STIFT) beauftragte die Bauhausmaschine mit der Gestaltung und Durchführung der Videoshow anlässlich der Preisverleihung. Dazu gehörten auch 13 kurze Imageclips zur Vorstellung der Nominierten. Bei den Clips handelt es sich um teilweise soundreaktive Echtzeit Composites, die mit einer Auflösung von 2048×768 Pixeln auf 2 Videoprojektoren ausgegeben wurden. Der Soundtrack wurde auf einem Spatial Pan System des Ilmenauer Fraunhofer IDMT abgespielt, und mit der Lichtinszenierung synchronisiert.

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Playlist auf YouTube

Idee: Bauhausmaschine
Regie und Bild: Stefan Kraus
Ton: Marc Sauter
Stimme: Franziska Grohmann
Texte: Elke Beilfuß
Redaktion: Gregor Sauer
Grafik: Maurice van Brast
Assistenz: Anna Schroedter
3D Animation: Lars Patzelt
Technical Support: Bahadir Hamdemir
Media Server: MXWendler FX Server

Eine Produktion des
Bauhaus.TransferzentrumDESIGN 2009

Im Auftrag der
Stiftung für Technologie, Innovation und Forschung Thüringen

Thüringer Innovationspreis

Ein Brausen von Oben

info — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:22:37 +0000

Die Fassade der Kirche wurde von HP Großmann und Canan Yilmaz mit großformatigen Diaprojektionen von Astwerk erleuchtet.

Die außen positionierten Scheinwerfer erleuchteten die Kirche Innen mit “künstlichem Tageslicht”

Die Elemente des Altars hatten die Künstler für die Performance als Leuchtobjekte herausgearbeitet.

Zum Spielen lud auch der Kronleuchter ein, der durch die Projektionen zu funkeln begann.

Das audiovisuelle Setup – die Bauhausmaschine

Pfingsten, das Fest des fünfzigsten Tages feiert den Geburtstag der Kirche.
Von Oben fährt der Heilige Geist, auf die Jünger herab und durchdringt sie.
Um die Vertreibung böser (winterlicher) Geister geht es auch im Volksglauben.

Mit multimedialen Mitteln inszenierten die Künstler Stefan Kraus und Marc Sauter
eine raumgreifende Licht- und Klangperformance in der kleinen Kirche von Süssenborn.
Mithilfe von Video- und Lichtprojektionen und Raumklang erweckten die Künstler den Raum zum leben
und tauchten mit den Zuschauer in eine abstrakte Interpretation des Pfingsterlebnisses hinein.
Unterstützt von Pastor Dr. Hiddemann experimentierten die beiden Künstler mit Texten
der Bibel in verschiedenen Sprachen, die sie für eine abendliche Performance dramaturgisch Verdichteten, so daß die Kirche für einen Tag zu einem audiovisuellen Atelier/Labor wurde, dessen Forschungsergebnisse Abends präsentiert wurden.

Marc Sauter und Stefan Kraus arbeiten gemeinsam an dem Projekt “Bauhausmaschine”
und gehören zu dem Medienkunstnetzwerk MXAV.
Unterstützt wurden sie bei der Performance von dem Lichtgestalter HP Großmann.

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Die Konstruktion des Geheimnisses

MXZEHN rocks Backup.club (once again)

info — Sat, 23 May 2009 21:00:23 +0000

As almost every year, the MXZEHN expirience was invited to play at one of the Backup Film Festivals club nights. After the first obligatory band (“hello weimar, we are …. and we rock” –> you wish ; ) the tables began to spin, MXZEHN VJs 34TR and optoyzMX began to rock (for real) and the audience danced til sunrise.

Two days later MX VJ Optoyz teamed up with The Vidness and Robert Genschorek to perform an audiovisual jam session with Tilman Porschütz at the Backup.Forum. Carried away by an enthousiastic audience, the artists confronted Tilmans improvised soundscapes with live painting in a vivid remix.

–> Backup Festival
–> Bauhausmaschine beim Backup Festival

MX Videosculpture at Mapping Festival Géneva

info — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:59:37 +0000

Back in Geneva! The Mapping Festival has established itself as one of the leading VJ festivals, and shows once more, that VJing is way more than people usually think. From 8th to 17th of May live video and audio artists from all over the world will present their work to the audience.
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And they will meet a well educated public, as Geneva is also the home of many brilliant VJs and the poular Live Video Software Modul8.

Workshops, Live AV Performances, fassade projections and installation push the limits of interdisciplinary experimentation with digital media. And thanks to the roots in the VJ scene this happens in a very relaxed way, without the hyperimportant annoying artsy fartsy bla bla accompangying “media art” festivals, that don’t know the “streets” like the Mapping crew does.

So it’s a pleasure to be here, as the MXZEHN expirience was comissioned by the festival to build a videosculptre at the entrance to the BAC, folding around the stairs. In good neighborhood to an exhibition of german artist Gerhard Richter, Stefan Kraus, Marc Sauter and Haye Heerten built a threedimensional augmented virtuality installation from 3072 pixels, 4 audio chanels, cardboard, wooden lathes, hot glue and spax screws. Stefan Kraus will stay for the week of the festival and feed the sculpturs with impressions of Geneva, the BAC and the Mapping Festival. The sculpture thus becomes a reflection of the immediate past of the festival and it’s visitors. So if theres a guy behind several computers in a dark corner by the sculpture, it’s probably him – so don’t hesitate to let him show you the machinery behind the magic ; )

–> Mapping Festival Genf
–> Haye Heetren / The Vidness

MXZEHN wird unterstützt von BAUHAUSMASCHINE
dem Bauhaus Transferzentrum Design und der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Istanbul Culture Jam

info — Sun, 10 May 2009 11:41:13 +0000

Istanbul – an obviously up and coming city (well – if it wasn’t there for ages ; ) was hosting 12 musicians from three nations (Turkey, France and Germany) to join for an (inter) cultural jam session. The curator, Katja Schäfer, comissioned MXZEHN to join in and add the visual component to this mix. After three days of warming up session in the studio of Tolga Tolun and his friends, the whole crew was jammed into the tiny stage of Dogzstar and started to rock. In addition to the typical MX-Madness marroccan photographer Fatima Mazmouz took pictures of never sleeping Istanbul, that got the MX treatment.

MXZEHN VJ Berserk 34TR feels homey.

The “Mixer of Mass Destruction” was considered too dangerous by authorities and had to go through every security check available.

As it is impossible to fit all participants into the studio, the jams are organised in shifts…

MXZEHN are jamming from the directors booth.

Setting up the Jam on the stage of Dogsztar

Some Screenshots of the MX-Fatima Remix:

–> Bauhauslab : Culture Jam

dolu hayat – voll das leben

info — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:48:14 +0000

Once again h-boy, 34tr and ungi presented Studenten wir kriegen Euch! – the DNTs experimental party format at kesselsaal. Canan Yilmaz showed here thesis work “yarim can” – a staged video performance reflecting the introspective of a young migrant woman searching for identity between different homes. Familie Humbold made the transition from art-art to party-art easy and soon everybody was stepping to their beat. The evening climaxed into the night with a stunningly intense AV performance by long time collaborators Schleck&Stecker and the infamous MXZEHN VJ team.

10 Jahre Gaswerk

info — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:00:27 +0000

Our beloved homebase, the Project- and Designworkshop Gaswerk celebrated 10 years of alternative cultural work and 100 years of it’s existance. Reason enough for MXZEHN to mash up approximately 6000 pictures into on 4096×768 animated collage, driven by an atmospheric soundtrack of Seltsam&Strahler.

Here are some screenshots:

MX-Thueringen at EXPO REAL Munich

info — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:00:26 +0000

The Bauhaus TransferzentrumDESIGN comissioned a seven screen video installation featuring the beauty of Thuringia land- and cityscapes as part of the countries booth at the EXPO Real fair at Munich. MX VJ optoyz realised the task using two synchronized MXWendler FX Server animating a panoramic collage of 170.000 Pixels in width. Additional functionality was gained from the use of Sampleandhold’s multitracker tool Teatracks. Original photo footage by Kunstfabrik, Gregor Sauer, Ricarda Porzelt and Stefan Kraus.