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reset.discover VR exhibition

Sat, 02 Mar 2019 12:00:00 +0000

The piece reset.discover is the result of a collaboration between composer Antonia Manhartsberger and the VR artist Constantinos Miltiadis, investigating the possibilities of uniting spatial-visual and spatial-sonic elements into one abstract spatio-temporal virtual environment. The piece develops over notions of proximity and distance, thus consisting of two layers of experience. An individual point of view controlled by a VR HMD and headphones, and a correlated surrounding spatial audio loudspeaker setup. The audience is called upon to discover and experience this synthetic surrounding.

Towards the Expanded Field

Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:26:39 +0300

Towards the Expanded Field: experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to immaterial spatiotemporal environments was a three day symposium including lectures, spatial audio performances and a VR exhibition that took place between 7 and 9 of March 2018 at the Haus der Architektur Graz.

Description

Virtual reality and spatial audio technologies bring about a new paradigm in the fields of architecture and music. While defying classification, works developed in these media extend our spatial and auditory sensibilities beyond what is perceivable in the physical world. Can we regard them however as architecture and music, or are they foreign to their origins?
Architect Constantinos Miltiadis and composer and sound artist Gerriet K. Sharma will present their investigations and exhibit works on virtual navigable environments and sculptural spatial audio. The event intends to initiate a discussion on the nature of such explorations, in parallel to the nature and future of music and architecture in the expanded field.

Program

Date	Program
March 7
6 pm	Opening presentations Constantinos Miltiadis – The Architectural Continuum: science, technology, art, choropoietic media and spatial aesthetic Gerriet K. Sharma – Spatial Practices in Contemporary Loudspeaker Music Stephan Günzel – On Spatiality
8:30 pm	VR exhibition opening Valentin Moser – Chronicles Lukas Gosch – Awakening Philipp Sattler – Library of the Absurd
March 8
10 am	Reading group Rosalind Krauss “Sculpture in the Expanded Field.” October 8 (1979)
6 pm	Spatial audio performances Antonia Manhartsberger – Mo.ve [modus vertiginis] Paul Wolff – 1500
7 pm	VR exhibition Valentin Moser – Chronicles Lukas Gosch – Awakening Philipp Sattler – Library of the Absurd
March 9
6:30pm	Closing round table discussion Constantinos Miltiadis, Gerriet K. Sharma, Antonia Manhartsberger, Valentin Moser, Philipp Sattler
7:30 pm	Spatial audio performance Gerriet K. Sharma: “gleAM” sound sculpture for BESSY II VSR and IKO

Credits

Concept & realization

Constantinos Miltiadis, in collaboration with Gerriet K. Sharma.

Presentations

Constantinos Miltiadis
architect and computational designer, currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Architecture and Media of TU Graz. His research and teachings are focused on the architectural qualities and aesthetic potential of virtual navigable environments.
studioany.com/
Gerriet K. Sharma
composer and sound artist, currently an artistic researcher in the OSIL project at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics of KU Graz and Edgard Varèse guest-professor at TU Berlin. His work is focused on sculptural composition in complex loudspeaker environments and space as a cultural key concept in the now.
www.gksh.net/
Stephan Günzel
media philosopher with expertise in the philosophy of space, Programme Director for New Media Design at UE Berlin (née BTK Berlin).
stephan-guenzel.de/

Spatial audio performances

Antonia Manhartsberger
Paul Wolff

VR exhibition

VSMS 2017 projects by

Philipp Sattler
Valentin Moster
Sabrina Kullmaier
Lukas Gosch

Documentation

Pictures by Felix Zitter (HDA)
Video recording by Antonia Manhartsberger

Acknowledgments

Conducted with the kind support of Haus der Architektur Graz, The Institute of Architecture and Media TU Graz, and the Deanery of the Faculty of Architecture of TU Graz. The IKO speaker was provided courtesy of the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Kunst Uni Graz.

Photo documentation

reset.discover

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:55:55 +0300

The piece reset.discover is an artistic research collaboration of composer Antonia Manhartsberger and computational designer Constantinos Miltiadis, pursued to explore possibilities of uniting spatial-visual and spatial-sonic elements into one consistent spatiotemporal whole.

The piece consists two counterparts: an electronic music composition for spatial audio, and a interactive virtual environment for VR. The composition features abstract sonic environments and moving sound objects organized in three categories: ambient-environmental, sound-object-events, and gestures. These are correlated to physical-visual objects in the spatial simulation of the 3D virtual environment, sequenced to follow the behavior of their sonic doubles. Participants enter the piece using a VR headset which allows to experience the piece interactively by exploring different perspectives into its spatial-visual (interactive stereoscopic VR) and spatial-aural (interactive binaural audio) dimensions.

The piece is discussed further in the thesis of Antonia Manhartsberger titled “Das soziopolitische Potential von Raummusik im Angesicht zeitgenössischer Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten”, presented at IEM in June 2018.

Exhibitions

First presented at the CUBE Concert, Institute of Electronic Music (IEM), University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. January 31 2018.
Exhibited at the Orpheum Extra, part of the Arts Programme, at Elevate 2019 festival. March 2 2019.

Credits

Antonia Manhartsberger: Concept and spatial audio composition
Constantinos Miltiadis: Concept and virtual environment programming

Sonic Rug Hackathon - Vienna Design Week 2017

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:00:00 +0000

Invited single-day hackathon project with Antonia Manhatsberger, for the production of an interactive audiovisual installation for the Sonic Rug, developed by Selina Reiterer and Oliver Maklott.

“Sonic Rug is the result of an artistic approach to smart textiles. The project is exploring the possibilities of connecting soft material to the digital space, manifesting the results within an interactive installation, that creates sounds by touch. […] In this Hackathon data from the touch-sensitive installation will be open to be translated into different media.”¹

Credits

Antonia Manhartsberger: sound programming
Constantinos Miltiadis: visuals programming
Hosted by Oliver Maklott, Matthias Gassner, Selina Reiterer
Photo documentation: Daniela Jakob (Vienna Design Week)

Images

https://sonicrug.com/no01-hackathon-vienna-design-week/ ↩︎