field
Detailed App Info:
Application Description
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.
Double Tap to switch modes.
Pinch to change the grid resolution.
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An App by Rainer Kohlberger
Sound by Wilm Thoben
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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.
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A Video of «field» in action
https://vimeo.com/rainerkohlberger/field
Double Tap to switch modes.
Pinch to change the grid resolution.
---
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.
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A Video of «field» in action
https://vimeo.com/rainerkohlberger/field
Requirements
Your mobile device must have at least 19.89 MB of space to download and install field app. field was updated to a new version. Purchase this version for $1.99
If you have any problems with installation or in-app purchase, found bugs, questions, comments about this application, you can visit the official website of Rainer Kohlberger at http://kohlberger.net/field.
Copyright © Rainer Kohlberger
