field

field is an abstract audiovisual work that generates itself through real-time camera input. Brightness saturation and color are interpreted, and translated into a constructed grid. The image plays the sound.

An App by Rainer Kohlberger
Sound by Wilm Thoben

Winner of the ZKM App Art Award. Prize for Artistic Innovation

Jury Statement:

Austrian video artist and media designer, Rainer Kohlberger, was awarded with the innovation prize for his audiovisual app field.

In this app, the iPads camera reacts to light and colors in the environment and translates them in an aesthetic way in tones, sounds, and geometrical patterns. Formally speaking, Kohlberger draws on concrete art. The term concrete art was first coined in 1924 by Dutch painter, Theo van Doesburg, before being programmat- ically defined a few years later, in 1930, in the founding manifesto of the group Art Concrete for a direction in art the ideal foundation of which was anchored in mathematics and geometry. It is not “abstract” in the proper sense since it does not extract from what already exists in material reality; on the contrary, it rather materializes intellectual content, possessing no symbolic significance, and is more or less generated from geometrical con- struction.
During the 1960s, Op-Art and Kinetics artists made the logical step of also generating the mathematical foundation purely by programming: in other words, to have the works generate themselves according to an algorithm. With Rainer Kohlberger’s app, a further step has been taken: external influences, such as real light and real movement become part of the algorithm, and extend the geometric and acoustic input in endless variations.

Wissensbilanz

Typographic illustrations for a book published by Universität für angewandte Kunst. April 2011.

Work in progress

Generative Posters. Soon.

Shift

Generative Laser. Installation at 22 presents in Prague February 2011. More Infos + moving images soon.

rk

Unique Business Cards. Edition of 50.

killshots

Generative Posters exhibited within the context of Schmiede Festival in Salzburg September 2010. Based on photographs taken together with Herr Schobel on a trip to Iceland in July 2010.

Repair

Creative Direction of Screen Visuals for the Ars Electronica 2010 Awards Ceremony. The Design scales to any number of screens. In Linz we had six projections synchronized. View a video on Vimeo.

ars2010

Creative Direction of «Screen Visuals» for the Ars Electronica Awards 2010

Theseus

Exhibition Design for THESEUS Innovation Center Internet of Things
Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Berlin
Installation / Generative Animation
Creative Direction: Rainer Kohlberger + Thomas Schrott
June 2010

Black Polygons are applied with glue to the wall. Everything else is projected.
Some more Information in German

Documentation

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constellations

Audiovisual live performance «Constellations» at Akademie der Künste, Berlin

hfg

Hosting the Workshop «Generative Design & Animation» at HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd

tu

Teaching «Audiovisual Design» at TU Berlin / Audiokommunikation

rain

tap to create black sound stripes
double tap to create phases
shake to create colored beat stripes
double swipe to change background loop

the longer a stripe the lower its pitch.
after creating a stripe, use your second finger to alter the length.

the app transmits all sequences via OSC messages on port 4444.
OSC to MIDI router (OSCulator template)

credits

rain was created by rainer kohlberger 2010.
sound samples by max kickinger.

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algorithmicmediacreation

Last semester I was teaching at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences / School of Media. The course was named «Algorithmic Media Creation»

Ghostwriter

When I heared that 2009′s topic of the biennal stop.spot! festival would be «Text and Music» I started documenting all the Hooklines that suddenly appeared in my head all day. «Hooks» are those tiny edgy fragments of a songtext that nests inside your head and mostly they come with a strong connection to their accociated music. Some of them reoccure over and over again, sometimes I didn’t hear the corresponding song in two years. For this installation I took the most significant ones and created realtime animated pictures out of them.

Exhibited at stop.spot! 2009, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst Linz

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Shots

hecatomb

Some Contributions + Visual Support on Audion’s Hecatomb Tour in North America

Human Nature

Creative Direction / Algorithmic Animation
Nature: Realtime generated Visuals
Event: Ars Electronica 2009 Award Ceremony
Location: Brucknerhaus Linz
Commissioned by checksum5

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Shots

humannature

Designed and animated realtime generated Visuals for the Ars Electronica 2009 Festival Award Ceremony

glitch

One of my prints from the «ohne autor» series has been published in the book glitch – designing imperfection

filmriss redesign

redesigned filmriss.at

PAN AM SCAN at the Electronic Church

performed with PAN AM SCAN at the Electronic Church in Berlin

screen savers

Visual Design and Implementation of Screen Savers, a work by Bjørn Melhus

Sala Agua

Interaction, Visual Design and Programming for «Sala Agua», the Acciona Pavillon at EXPO 08/ Zaragoza/ Spain

Genetic Sequence Flipper

Screen Design & Implementation of the Software for the «Genetic Sequence Flipper» commissioned by ArchiMeDes and exhibited at Odysseum Köln

film:riss 08

updated the film:riss 08 website

madeby.at

created the website madeby.at for Tanja Lattner, a textile designer from Linz

completed studies

completed my study at the University of Applied Sciences Salzburg/ MultiMediaArt. passed the diploma exam with distinction.

Ohne Autor

Wie damit umgehen, wenn man in der Kunst keine Kunst mehr findet, wenn Dinge im Kunstraum stattfinden, die dort vermeintlich nicht hingehören, wenn Kunst in außerkünstlerischen Feldern agiert und als solche kaum mehr erkennbar ist? Der Ansatz den Kunstraum zu öffnen und den Kunstbegriff in den sozialen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Alltag auszudehnen, fordert die Kunstkritik und das Publikum, das diese Projekte eigentlich doch erreichen wollen, nach wie vor heraus. Die Diskrepanz zwischen Anspruch, Vermittlung und Rezeption sind das Motiv dieses Projekts und seiner Veranstaltungen. Zentral stehen die Veranstaltungen und mit ihnen die Diskussionen mit Künstlern, Kunsttheoretikern und -wissenschaftlern und dem Publikum, das zu den Veranstaltungen eingeladen ist.

In „wege aus der kunst“ geht es um die Bedingungen der Vermittlung, um Definitions- und Kommunikationsfragen – was ist eigentlich (noch) Kunst, was ist Kunstwahrnehmung. Wie gehen Kunstinstitutionen mit künstlerischen Projekten um, die sich jenseits eines gängigen Kunstbegriffs bewegen. Welche Rolle spielt die Kunstkritik? Wo befindet sich das Publikum?

Als „Hintergrundfolie der Ausstellung sind im lothringer13/laden Arbeiten aus Rainer Kohlbergers Projekt „ohne autor“ zu sehen. „ohne autor“ ist eine Sammlung von Fehldrucken von Apparaten und Maschinen, die ihre eigentliche Funktion nicht erfüllen und nun für den Kunstraum aufbereitet sind. Als Erzeugnisse einer selbst generierten, unkünstlerischen Ästhetik stehen sie in paradoxer Entsprechung zu künstlerischen Strategien, die tradierte Vorstellungen unterlaufen, und damit sich selbst und ihren Betrachter zur Neupositionierung anhalten. Als dem entgegen bewusst mit künstlerischen Intentionen produzierte Positionen sind in „wege aus der kunst“ Videos von Ulf Aminde, Claudia Djabbari, Lisa Erb, Valio Tchekov und Georg Winter zu sehen.
Alle ihre Arbeiten repräsentieren oder dokumentieren künstlerische Projekte, die nicht primär Kunst sein wollen und doch Strategien der Kunst anwenden.

Projektleitung: Diana Ebster

ohne autor im laden

Ohne Autor exhibited at lothringer13/ laden in munich

film:riss 07

updated the website for film:riss 07