Transformative interdisciplinary projects from sound and video art, biodata sonification and science
MONAS is an artist collective around the musician and sound artist Kurt Holzkämper, whose work and research focus is on the connection between sound and biodata.
The name MONAS (ancient Greek: “unity”) goes back to ancient mathematics and describes the transition from the indivisible to the countable and measurable. Monas is to be understood as the smallest part of a larger multitude and thus describes the endosymbiotic structure of our living systems. Everything is connected to everything else (Humboldt).
MONAS collective works with endosymbiotic processes at the limits of our sensory perceptions. The direct inclusion of the natural and plant world in artistic work opens up a current perspective on our anthropocentric perception of nature as a counterpart and on the dualism of nature and culture, the “original and the artificial”, which was consolidated in the industrial revolution.
Transformative connections are created: science, computer science, sound and video art, spatial object and performance art meet, interact and trigger creative impulses.
projects
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Moore Hören
Transformative interdisciplinary project combining sound/video art and science.
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MoorReaktor
Installation & Live Performance
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Reconnecting: Research
Research on the connection of sonification from multidimensional natural data with new light art and performance formats.
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Moore Sehen Moore Hören
Live Performance Light and Sound Art
collective
Being a versatile artist, Kurt Holzkämper travels between worlds. With the means of music on the bass, on the electronics and with his compositions, he explores the performance convergences and boundaries to art forms such as modern dance, tapdance, drama, live illustration,or sound installations. His artistic intention is the abstract-artistic interplay of movement and sound, conception and composition through sound textures, harmonies,and melodies. He is active in numerous international and interdisciplinary projects, such as with the Iranian draftsman Mehrdad Zaeri, the light artist Laurenz Theinert or the actress Suzanne von Borsody with a stage program about Frida Kahlo.
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The light artist Laurenz Theinert concentrates his work on visual experiences that no longer refer to something pictorially. Rather, he strives for an abstract, reduced aesthetic that ultimately led him from photography to the medium of light – due to the desire for further dematerialization.
He is a live light and media artist. His "visual piano" performances are shown all over the world. From Sao Paulo, London, Sydney, Berlin to New York and Singapore. In order to enable a spontaneous, active dialogue with the participating artists live, abstractly and space-filling, he invented the worldwide unique instrument "visual piano", which enables him to fill spaces with lines, objects and colors in real time without using pre-made clips.
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Phillip Staffa combines sound, sculpture, visual art and kinetic objects.
Born 1986 in Friedberg, Germany. Early work and training in music and visual arts, film and sculpture. Studied jazz guitar at the HfM Würzburg. Living in Berlin since 2013 as a freelance artist, musician and composer. EU-wide touring with the band HOPE, solo and soundwork.
His work and reaseach focus is on gradually changing processes, time-based applications and meditations and the relationship between people and the environment. As a musician and sculptor, he creates works from raw materials and found objects, using a variety of techniques, mediums and aspects of acoustics to create artworks bordering on sculpture and audio installations.
www.phillipstaffa.com
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environmental scientist; from 1993 to 2001Secretary General of the German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU). From 2001 to 2014 director of the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research, the former Center for Agricultural Landscape and Land Use Research (ZALF). Currently Professor of Geoecology/Agriculture at the University of Potsdam.
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/umwelt/institut/alle-arbeiterinnen/wiggering-hubert
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max & RNBO programming
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Moore Hören
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IT development for personnel administration and merchandise management, programming of MONAS sensors based on Arduino, various machine languages
www.memo-software.de
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Physics studies, sound direction in the experimental studio of the SWR in Freiburg, lecture series and publications on electronic music and historical performance practice / Luigi Nono
Super Collider, Max/Msp, OSC
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Award-winning documentaries, screenplays, jury work at the NaturVision Film Festival, media education work "Film and Talk"
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Tom Ehrhardt (*1978 in East Berlin) is a filmmaker, radio host and reporter. His career began at the arte program "Tracks", where he worked as an editor and author from 2002 to 2007. From 2007 to 2014 he presented the morning show "Die Radiofritzen am Morgen" on Fritz (rbb) and in 2010 presented his first full-length documentary "Last Year in Summer". During this time, Ehrhardt also began making short films and music videos. His projects have taken Ehrhardt to the Brazilian rainforest, Ethiopian coffee farms and the Ekstrom Ice Shelf in Antarctica, among other places. He lives and works in Berlin and Sao Paulo.
www.conmenfilm.com
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Publishing work, layout and photography, trailer video ReConnection
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contact
Kurt Holzkämper
Waliser Strasse 13 | D-71640 Ludwigsburg
mobil +49 163 601 24 63
kurt@holzkaemper.eu