Ice in Belly
20.- 27.08.21 daily, 7- 9 p.m. on view in our room
Three Channel-Video-Installation, 3D-Audio
Felix Deufel (Sounddesign)
Helga Hagen (Cut)
Daniel Wilmers (Video)
The temperature in the world is rising, the glaciers are melting - man is eating his ice cream with relish.
With "Ice in the Belly" an artistic sign is set to the climate change. With their work, the artists want to encourage critical questioning of consumption. For this purpose, they compose different visual and auditive contents in an aesthetic and technological way in order to immerse the recipient in the topic and to reach an immersive, audiovisual level.
The three-channel video installation with 3D sound will be shown for the first time at the end of August 2021 in the
the rooms of the ZiMMT in Leipzig.
The arrangement of three screens and 32 speakers creates an immersive space.
New media technologies, such as 3D audio combined with multi-channel production systems (...) "enables an evoked effect that makes the user's awareness of being exposed to illusory stimuli fade into the background to the point where the virtual environment is perceived as real."
This can lead to profound emotional and physical experiences. Immersive media technologies have not only gained a firm foothold in film and gaming, but are significantly tested and developed through artistic concepts and ideas.
ZiMMT specializes in exactly this role of art and art education. The 3-channel video installation shows impressive shots of ice formations, glaciers, water, snow, massive icebergs, glacier water in different colors and states, almost romanticizing the beauty of nature. It floats, flows, breaks, glides, cracks and roars.
Then comes the abrupt break: a woman "licking" an ice cream, in close-up... Various sucking, smacking and licking sounds are spatially composed and culminate together with the glacier shots in a rhythmic sound formation.
The visitors are completely enveloped visually and aurally, and the created backdrop and atmosphere allow enough time for deep immersion through slow, smooth transitions. Spatial hearing, seeing and experiencing prepare unusual, intensive impressions. In this way, a multitude of associations can be awakened.
Visitors can move freely through the space and view the scenery from different angles. The installation runs as a closed loop, without a recognizable beginning or end. One cycle lasts about 20 minutes.
Felix Deufel
is a sound artist specialized in 3D audio recording, production and system design. In addition to his own artistic works, such as installations and compositions, Felix Deufel realizes commissioned works for artists, agencies or institutions in the field of 3D audio. Deufel is founder of Not a Number GmbH and initiator of ZiMMT. Since 2013, Deufel has been intensively engaged with natural silence and, as part of his long-term project, travels to remote places that have existed largely untouched by human influence. In these places, the artist makes recordings, using spatial miking techniques and sensors, to build an archive of soundscapes of natural silence, making them tangible and preserving them. //notanumber.space
Helga Hagen
is a media artist. She is a member of Alba D'Urbano's Intermedia class at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and lives and works near Bonn, where they run the non-profit association K56 - Raum für Kunst. Their works are mainly short experimental videos, which are partly documentary partly fictional mostly biographical and socially relevant topics. Through image manipulation and collaboration with audio artists, a story is told in a concise and often penetrating way. //helgahagen.de
Daniel Wilmers
is a computer scientist and photographer. In his work as a photographer, he plays with observation and explores the boundaries of perception. In doing so, he accompanies, for example, actors, cultural workers and also technology-based festivals. In 2019, he experienced climate change in Patagonia firsthand and documented it in extensive images and videos. In Patagonia, a region in South America, there are still large glacier regions, for example, the Perito Moreno Glacier, which has become very famous. This is an outlet glacier of the Campo de Hielo Sur, the largest glacier area of the South American Andes and after Antarctica and Greenland the third largest continuous ice surface in the world. This is melting at a breathtaking rate. Researchers see the cause in global warming. //eldw.de
Ice in Belly
20.- 27.08.21 daily, 7- 9 p.m. on view in our room
Three Channel-Video-Installation, 3D-Audio
Felix Deufel (Sounddesign)
Helga Hagen (Cut)
Daniel Wilmers (Video)
The temperature in the world is rising, the glaciers are melting - man is eating his ice cream with relish.
With "Ice in the Belly" an artistic sign is set to the climate change. With their work, the artists want to encourage critical questioning of consumption. For this purpose, they compose different visual and auditive contents in an aesthetic and technological way in order to immerse the recipient in the topic and to reach an immersive, audiovisual level.
The three-channel video installation with 3D sound will be shown for the first time at the end of August 2021 in the
the rooms of the ZiMMT in Leipzig.
The arrangement of three screens and 32 speakers creates an immersive space.
New media technologies, such as 3D audio combined with multi-channel production systems (...) "enables an evoked effect that makes the user's awareness of being exposed to illusory stimuli fade into the background to the point where the virtual environment is perceived as real."
This can lead to profound emotional and physical experiences. Immersive media technologies have not only gained a firm foothold in film and gaming, but are significantly tested and developed through artistic concepts and ideas.
ZiMMT specializes in exactly this role of art and art education. The 3-channel video installation shows impressive shots of ice formations, glaciers, water, snow, massive icebergs, glacier water in different colors and states, almost romanticizing the beauty of nature. It floats, flows, breaks, glides, cracks and roars.
Then comes the abrupt break: a woman "licking" an ice cream, in close-up... Various sucking, smacking and licking sounds are spatially composed and culminate together with the glacier shots in a rhythmic sound formation.
The visitors are completely enveloped visually and aurally, and the created backdrop and atmosphere allow enough time for deep immersion through slow, smooth transitions. Spatial hearing, seeing and experiencing prepare unusual, intensive impressions. In this way, a multitude of associations can be awakened.
Visitors can move freely through the space and view the scenery from different angles. The installation runs as a closed loop, without a recognizable beginning or end. One cycle lasts about 20 minutes.
Felix Deufel
is a sound artist specialized in 3D audio recording, production and system design. In addition to his own artistic works, such as installations and compositions, Felix Deufel realizes commissioned works for artists, agencies or institutions in the field of 3D audio. Deufel is founder of Not a Number GmbH and initiator of ZiMMT. Since 2013, Deufel has been intensively engaged with natural silence and, as part of his long-term project, travels to remote places that have existed largely untouched by human influence. In these places, the artist makes recordings, using spatial miking techniques and sensors, to build an archive of soundscapes of natural silence, making them tangible and preserving them. //notanumber.space
Helga Hagen
is a media artist. She is a member of Alba D'Urbano's Intermedia class at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig and lives and works near Bonn, where they run the non-profit association K56 - Raum für Kunst. Their works are mainly short experimental videos, which are partly documentary partly fictional mostly biographical and socially relevant topics. Through image manipulation and collaboration with audio artists, a story is told in a concise and often penetrating way. //helgahagen.de
Daniel Wilmers
is a computer scientist and photographer. In his work as a photographer, he plays with observation and explores the boundaries of perception. In doing so, he accompanies, for example, actors, cultural workers and also technology-based festivals. In 2019, he experienced climate change in Patagonia firsthand and documented it in extensive images and videos. In Patagonia, a region in South America, there are still large glacier regions, for example, the Perito Moreno Glacier, which has become very famous. This is an outlet glacier of the Campo de Hielo Sur, the largest glacier area of the South American Andes and after Antarctica and Greenland the third largest continuous ice surface in the world. This is melting at a breathtaking rate. Researchers see the cause in global warming. //eldw.de
