21 July 2024
A journey through time and realism
This spring, Lumus Instruments' media art exhibition OF NOW took place at Monopol Berlin, offering an unforgettable experience with its three captivating installations.
OF NOW delved into the essence of the present moment, provoking contemplation through its immersive audiovisual artworks. These artificially crafted experiences evoke a sense of timelessness and radical realism, inviting visitors to explore variations of being through the lens of the "now."
The programme combined a media-art exhibition with audiovisual live performances, featuring avant-garde musicians. These performances, known as Lumus’ Contrarium, were live experiments performed on an intricate and large-scale audiovisual canvas, pushing the boundaries of media art.
Hosted in a former distillery in Berlin, the collaboration between Monopol and Lumus Instruments offered a pure yet atmospheric setting for these experiential works of art. Three dark and monumental spaces served as the backdrop for sequenced choreographies and unified media machines.
Featured Installations:
Actualization: A kinetic laser installation that uses recordings of figuratively unreal events, contextualising them with an audiovisual composition to add a layer of "realness.”
Reflecting Bodies by Simone Smelt: A study of material, shape, volume, and light, exploring the interplay between these four elements.
Polynode: A spatial instrument that generates an audiovisual composition using patterns moving along fifteen vectors, controlling sound through nodes that virtually exist within these vectors.
OF NOW took place from May 1 to 12 this year. Check out the installations below.
