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01/03/2025 17:00 London/12:00 New York/09:00 LA
In her presentation Reinterpreting Space: Light Experiments in Natural Environments, Brooklyn-based artist and technologist Meggie Weinheimer poses the question "What happens when LEDs are freed from controlled environments and placed into the wild?" Meggie will showcase how site-specific light installations thrive on unpredictability, unfolding through real-time experimentation, creative adaptation, and interaction with the natural world.
Accomplished TouchDesigner artist, inventor and teacher Ildar Iakubov takes a more tongue-in-cheek approach in his session How to Ruin Your Outdoor Vacation diving into the best practices of transforming any serene natural landscape into a full-blown production site, complete with tangled cables, unpredictable power issues, and the thrill of debugging [haha] in the wilderness.
Seoul-based audiovisual artist Kohui explores relationships that emerge through sound, creating generative sound and visuals. Inspired by natural phenomena, forms, and processes, he will present works that engage with nature in this talk, "Translating Natural State."
The format of these online events is a presentation given by one or more TouchDesigner users, followed by a Q&A session. This 2025 series is hosted by Bileam Tschepe, aka elekktronaut, a Berlin-based artist and educator who creates audio-reactive, interactive and organic digital artworks, systems and installations in TouchDesigner, collaborating with and teaching people worldwide.
Speakers & presentation
Meggie Weinheimer | Reinterpreting Space: Light Experiments in Natural Environments
What happens when LEDs are freed from controlled environments and placed into the wild? My presentation explores how site-specific light installations embrace unpredictability through real-time creation, experimentation, and collaboration with natural entities. Using TouchDesigner and custom-built hardware, I create immersive, ephemeral experiences as direct responses to natural landscapes and environments. Rather than imposing structure onto a space, my work engages in a dialogue with it, shaped by its form, movement, and rhythms.Through a breakdown of my creative process and key experiments, I’ll share how light can behave as a living force, and how TouchDesigner enables real-time decision-making and site-specific adaptation, redefining how we work and create with light.
In this session:
- The Wild as Studio – Experimenting in Untamed Spaces
- Living Systems – Real-Time Spatial Narratives with TouchDesigner
- Rhythm as a Language of Space
- What’s Coming – Speculative Futures and Light in Motion
Meggie Weinheimer, a Brooklyn-based artist and technologist, unites light, sound, and spatial design to create large-scale light installations, audio-visual experiences, and site-specific artworks. Her practice merges computational precision with a responsive, hands-on approach to explore the boundaries of form and space. By translating rhythm and movement into visual language, she shapes sensory dialogues that echo the structure and flow of sound.
Through continuous experimentation and real-time creation, she engineers each piece to harmonize light, form, and kinetics, embracing the impermanence of each site-specific installation. Featured in diverse settings—industrial spaces, art galleries, natural landscapes—these artworks become dialogues between individuals and the environment, fostering shared experiences and uniting people in novel ways.
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Kohui | Translating Natural State
Kohui is a Seoul-based audiovisual artist who explores relationships that emerge through sound, creating generative sound and visuals. Inspired by natural phenomena, forms, and processes, he presents works that engage with nature in this presentation, "Translating Natural State." He shares why he seeks direct encounters with nature and how he perceives it, reflecting on his approach to creation.He also discusses the role of technology in his work and how it shapes the relationship between nature, humans, and the digital.
In this session:
- Introduction to Kohui’s works related to nature
- Behind-the-scenes of the creative process
- Thoughts on the relationship between technology, humans, and nature
Kohui explores relationships connected to sound through the act of sensing it. Observing natural phenomena, forms, and methods, he constructs algorithms that create relationships between predictability and unpredictability. He reconstructs these relationships, expanding how sound is perceived and shaping perspectives on nature, humanity, and sound.He has presented audiovisual performances at WeSA Festival, ACT Festival, SICMF, MUTEK Montreal, and MUTEK X INSCAPE and exhibited in group shows at the National Asia Culture Center, Seoul Museum of Art, Platform-L, and Dialog(). He was selected as a HYUNDAI ZER01NE Creator in 2022 and co-founded the artist collective TAKA. He has served as an adjunct professor at the Korea National University of Arts.
https://youtu.be/2vvyui8Wfk0?feature=shared
Ildar Iakubov | How to Ruin Your Outdoor Vacation
Our studio proudly claims ourselves as the inventors of the world's most effective solution to ruin your outdoor vacation. If your family, your friends, your colleagues and yourself have been longing quality rest for quite a while - don't worry. We've been pulling for you for a long time to ensure everyone can truly ruin their outdoor vacation with no ambiguity. Join us as we dive into the best practices of transforming any serene natural landscape into a full-blown production site, complete with tangled cables, unpredictable power issues, and the thrill of debugging in the wilderness.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to turn a tranquil desert or a forest into a high-maintenance cybernetic jungle
- The art of carrying absurd amounts of equipment to the most remote locations
- Pro tips for balancing aesthetics with survival skills
- Dos and don'ts for a bunch of over-caffeinated artists in the wild
Ildar Iakubov is an artist, curator and educator working in the field of new media since 2009. His work was exhibited at major festivals and exhibitions such as CTM Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz and InSonic ZKM Karlsruhe. Founder of a media art cooperative kargat.stuido. Currently employed as a creative director in GCC based event agency.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6T8d8fo2XG
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