The Thuringian Foundation for Technology, Innovation and Research [STIFT] commissioned Bauhausmaschine to create the audiovisual content for the “Jugend Forscht” Award Ceremony in Weimar and Erfurt. Together with choreographer Alessia Pinto and dancer Corentin LeFlohic Bauhausmaschine created 3 videodance performances that also served as base for the motion graphics. The rehearsals for the dance performances [...]
Dance and interactive media attract and repel each other at the same time. The challenge is to create a synesthetic art piece, in wich both disciplines - however different their methods are - melt into one unique experience for the audience, that none of them could have caused on themselves.
The Ensemble for intuitive Music celebrated their 30th anniversary at the Gaswerk, where they last played for the iconic “party==kunstraum” event in 1998. The ensemble is dedicated to “new music” and plays beyond the “classics” of this genre their own improvisations. One of those they performed live on Friday, May 27 in Weimar, accompanied by [...]
Bauhausmaschine was comissioned to develop a Light- and Videoinstallation for the period of three days during the 33. German Protestant Church Meeting in the “Church of Culture”. The idea was to play with natural sunlight as well as with artificial video light. To achieve that, the windows were covered with lighting color filters, that transformed [...]
Together with the ROL DJ Team, MXZEHN moderated the first evening of this years STFU festival in Jenas Kassablanca club. The visual setup combined square kassa-screens with triangles of 45kilo, that got mapped. Local heroes like Cindy Sizer and Wesen meet artists from the uk, spain and greece, always acompanied by 25 Masterpieces per Second…
Cologne based lighting designers lightlife comissioned MXAV to create the MXWendler driven video show for the award ceremony of the second annual German Lighting Design Award.
While Apolda is a city clearly held hostage by the decline of it's former prosperous textile industrie, it becomes the focus of european fashion talents every three years when the Apolda European Design Award is taking place. Bauhausmaschine was invited to add another layer of fashion visualisation as background and infoscreen for the fashion show in the Apolda Stadthalle.
The Studentenwerk Thüringen comissioned Bauhausmaschine (Marc Sauter & Stefan Kraus) to contribute an audiovisual live performance as part of their effort to promote the student friendliness of the city of Jena and the contribution of the Studentenwerk (Kindergärten, Mensen, Housing, Support for international students and the like). The composition was first presented live at the Studentenwerk conference in Jena. These Remixes use fotographs and soundsamples collected by Stefan and Marc on their trips through Jena. The Videoclips are recorded live and unedited.
IT trust Adesso AG commissioned MXAV to create a videoshow for their annual meeting. The installation included a 7 projector panorama, scenery for a dance piece and a stomping VJ-DJ performance by MXZEHN and the lovely DJane an singer ROSA ROUGH (who truely lived up to her last name!). The panorama installation was carefully mapped [...]
For already 4 projects Caracas based agency CitrusBros teamed up with MXAV to create market leading videomappings for local and global brands. MXZEHN VJ Optoyz helped the guys over at Citrus to tame their brand new MXWendler mediaserver and introduced them into the secret arts of videomapping and realtime video performance. Optoyz on the other [...]
Die TanzMedienAkademie – gegründet 2007 als Forum interdisziplinärer Recherche und Produktion des Kunstfestes Weimar erprobt neue Formen der künstlerischen Zusammenarbeit zwischen Tänzern und Medienkünstlern. Unter der Leitung von Stefan Kraus bietet die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar einen Fachkurs an, der den Studierenden die Werkzeuge der Echtzeitmedienproduktion für Bühne und Event vermittelt. Am 29. August werden die Ergebnisse eines zweiwöchigen Workshops dem Publikum des Kunstefestes im Hauptgebäude der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar vorgestellt.
On Oktober first, Bauhaus-University Weimar celebrated the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the first art school in Weimar. Joined by a dreamteam of talented artists Bauhausmaschine directed and produced the official "Festakt" and its artistic program. The orators were recorded in audiovisual samples and remixed by the end of the show.
The work of MXAV is concentrated on the creation of immersive audiovisual, spacial experiences for unique locations, stages and purposes. The combination of art and technology creates intense and individual experiences for audiences around the world.
The live video performance MXZEHN and the audiovisual remix exhibition BAUHAUSMASCHINE are ongoing projects of research
and exploration in multidimensional media. The international audiovisual projection mapping festival Genius Loci Weimar invites media artists to make artistic videomappings for historic buildings in Weimar.
MXZEHN – 25 Masterpieces per Second
Founded in 1999 as genericPreset and renamed MXZEHN in 2003, the VJ crew has developped a very unique style, that nevertheless expands through ongoing experimentation with analogue and digital video technologies. The work of MXZEHN is not about loops and videoclips, but about realtime synthesis and creation of structures through realtime performance.
Bauhausmaschine
The mobile, modular exhibition-performance Bauhausmaschine was originally started to accompany the celebration of the 90th birthday of the Bauhaus’ foundation in Weimar. Bauhausmaschine is documenting , remixing and presenting images and soundsamples and remixes them into dense multilayer audiovisual compositions.
Genius Loci Weimar
The art of videomapping meets the history of a cultural city in the heart of europe.In a city like Weimar, every stone has a story. Genius Loci invites international Media Artists to tell that story – on location.
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