Ulf Langheinrich








CURRENT PRODUCTIONS


Co-founder of GRANULAR-SYNTHESIS with Kurt Hentschläger in 1991, Ulf Langheinrich has been working on solo projects since 2003.



Installations



> WAVEFORM L (2023)
© Ulf Langheinrich		3D vertical stereoscopic film, commissioned by Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Bonn and supported by Landeshauptstadt Dresden (DE) Exhibition: 19 April - 09 July 2023, DIMENSIONS — Digital Art since 1859, curated by Richard Castelli, with Dan Xu and Clara Blume, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Pittlerwerke, Leipzig (DE).



> MOVEMENT L (2023)
© Ulf Langheinrich		3D vertical stereoscopic generative audio-visual, commissioned by Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Bonn and supported by Landeshauptstadt Dresden (DE). Exhibition: 19 April - 09 July 2023, DIMENSIONS — Digital Art since 1859, curated by Richard Castelli, with Dan Xu and Clara Blume, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur Pittlerwerke, Leipzig (DE).



> OSC-B (2022)
© Ulf Langheinrich		Large scale outdoor installation commissioned by LLum Barcelona. Exhibition: 04 - 06 February 2022, MIRA Digital Arts Festival, Disseny HUB Barcelona. Jardins d´Elisava (ES).



> WAVEFORM Z (2022)
		Large scale installation, curated by Richard Castelli. Exhibition: 08 January - 19 March 2022, Hydrrrogènes festival, Le Grrranit - Scène nationale de Belfort (FR).



> OSC-K (2020)
OSC-K © ZKM \| Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Fhoto: Elias Siebert		Large scale outdoor installation commissioned by the ZKM for Seasons of Media Arts 2020 (curators: Peter Weibel and Philipp Ziegler). Exhibition: 11 September - 25 October 2020, Günther-Klotz-Anlage, Karlsruhe (DE).



> WAVEFORM X (2019)
WAVEFORM X © Ulf Langheinrich		*WAVEFORM X* is a cinematographic-stereoscopic Installation. In this work specially created for the Oval Office, the media artist Ulf Langheinrich creates immersive experiences in which members of the public physically enter the art work. Equipped with 3D glasses, the audience enters a dark space that transforms before their eyes, blurring the boundaries between virtual reality and supposed reality. First presentation: 23 September 2019 - 12 January 2020, Schauspielhaus - Oval Office (curator: Tobias Staab), Bochum (DE).



> NOLANDX (2019)
NOLANDX © Ulf Langheinrich		NOLANDX is an audiovisual composition, specially created for the DEEP SPACE 8K of Ars Electronica Center, Linz (AT). First presentation: 06 - 09 September 2019, Ars Electronica Festival, Deep Space 8K, Linz (AT).



> QSL (2018)
QSL (Quantized Sound and Light) is a kind of audiovisual trance gabber. Flickering sound and image are closely intertwined. Thus QSL refers to the tradition of previous Granular-Synthesis work and, 20 years later, adds new technological and aesthetic dimensions. First presentation: 13 - 15 July 2018, MELT Festival, Melt Art Space / Orangerie (DE).



> NIL (2018)
LOST © Ulf Langheinrich		The spectator peers into flickering formations of stroboscopic light. The strobes are invisibly located in a white area projecting onto a large screen. The spectator experiences an apparently dimensionless and borderless area through a window. First presentation: 13 - 15 July 2018, MELT Festival, Melt Art Space / Orangerie (DE).



> LOST (2017)
LOST © Ulf Langheinrich		LOST works without any video projection, only stroboscopic lights. It is about how exploring the potential of the hemispheric dome by annulling its existence on a level of perception, using it as a carrier into an "Inner space". It is about being touched by light, an intimate sensual touch. First presentation: 14 - 18 June 2017, Muffatwerk, Munich (DE). A special version within the 18 m diameter of the SATosphere dome was presented from the 10 April to 15 May 2018 and showcased again as part of the IX Symposium at the SAT, Montreal (CA, QC).



> GHOST - 3D WATER MATRIX (2017)
GHOST (3D WATER MATRIX)		Composed of 900 electrovalves, each computer-controlled, the 3D WATER MATRIX is a medium or an interface for the making of liquid animated and tridimensional creations. After ST\LL by Shiro Takatani and The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Christian Partos, premiered the 8 Avril 2014 at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie in Paris, *GHOST* is the third artwork specially created for the matrix. First presentation: 28 April - 30 July 2017, Body Media II (curator: Richard Castelli), Power Station of Art, Shanghai (CN).



> NO LAND (2005-2014)
NO LAND III © Ulf Langheinrich		NO LAND I (2008-2014) First 14 minutes of original LAND (3D) Production Liverpool Biennial / FACT, Liverpool / Epidemic, Paris First presentation: 05 June - 03 October 2015, Kunstraum Florenz, Basel (CH). NO LAND II (2005-2014) 20 minutes after sequence from 05:00 to 16:00 of DRIFT (3D) First presentation: 17 August - 23 October 2005, White Noise (curator: Mike Stubbs), ACMI Melbourne (AU) as DRIFT. NO LAND III (2005-2014) 20 minutes after sequence from 16:00 to 25:00 of DRIFT (3D) First presentation: 17 August - 23 October 2005, White Noise (curator: Mike Stubbs), ACMI Melbourne (AU) as DRIFT. NO LAND IV (2009-2014) Algorithmically real time generated installation First presentation: 22 July 2011, MACBA, Barcelona (ES), as DRIFT-LINE-BLUE.



> HEMISPHERE (2006-2016)
HEMISPHERE © Ulf Langheinrich		HEMISPHERE is an artificial space created by 6 high definition beamers projecting onto a suspended cupola. It premiered for the opening of Romaeuropa festival, as part of the exhibition Sensi Sotto Sopra in Rome (IT), in September / October 2006. A new version was presented at Halles de Schaerbeek in Brussels (BE) in October 2016. A special version HEMISPHERE-SAT, was created for the dome of Sensorium of the SAT in Montreal (QC, CA) in 2012. The dome technical design: Dietmar Lupfer Co-production: Muffatwerk Munich and Epidemic with the support of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes



> MUSIC III - LAG (2011-2014)
LAG © Ulf Langheinrich		The starting point for LAG is the materiality of the projection screen and the physical and symbolic reality of the projected image. A single, moving image is projected onto a row of four projection fields. The viewer sees an algorithmically generated visual "substance": a system of semi-opaque particles, a field of noise. This field might be described through its qualities such as consistency, current, density and liquidity. First presentation: 11 - 17 November 2010, CYNETART - TMA, Hellerau, Dresden (DE).



> MOVEMENT X (2010) and MOVEMENT Y (2012)
MOVEMENT X © Ulf Langheinrich		Installations with Japanese dancer Toshiko Oiwa. First presentations: 05 June - 25 July 2010: MOVEMENT X, Panorama 12, Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (FR) 13 January - 30 April 2012: MOVEMENT Y, The Burning Edge: Making Space, activating form, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, Hong Kong



> ALLUVIUM (2010-2017)
ALLUVIUM © Ulf Langheinrich		Created for AVIE by Jeffrey Shaw , this work is based on research into pixel and particle fields and their display in stereoscopic 3D. The qualities of such fields that I am interested in are: consistency, density, liquidity, tension, opacity and subtlety. The material is not created in a 3D-Software, but based on 2D noise and particle fields. The experience of depth is the result of re-allocating of particles, independent for left and right eye. The re-allocation of particles is considered a modulation in which 2D noise-fields acts as modulator while the "visible" noise-fields is the carrier. First presentation (2D version): 03 March - 02 May 2010, Digitalife (curator: Richard Castelli), Romaeuropa, MACRO Testaccio - La Pelanda, Roma (IT). First presentation (3D version): 08 September 2017 - 28 January 2018: The Art of Immersion (curators: Peter Weibel, Richard Castelli, Dennis Del Favero), ZKM \| Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (DE).



> LAND (2008-2013) — Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial International '08 and FACT
LAND © Ulf Langheinrich		In the middle between a cinematic approach and an installation, LAND continues Ulf Langheinrich's exploration into sensory immersive environments, at the core of his recent artistic research into the nature of digital illusion. He creates pure, large scope spaces devoid of objects or gestures yet dense with matter. LAND is a digital landscape rendered solely out of two algorithms that create pure noise. First presentation: 20 September - 30 November 2008, Liverpool Biennial International '08 (UK). In 2018, the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon acquired the piece after presenting it in 2014 as part of Listen Profoundly - Langheinrich, Goebbels, Feldman exhibition.



> OSC (2006)
OSC © Ulf Langheinrich		OSC is an installation for one single monolith in space. A special huge version, OSC-L, for the National Theatre's flytower was commissioned and presented by Lumiere-London (UK) from 18 - 21 January 2018.



> WAVEFORM A and WAVEFORM B (2005)
WAVEFORM B © Ulf Langheinrich
WAVEFORM is about interference and synchronization. Scans of incoming waves at the Ghanaian coast were denatured by changing the time perspective within the projected image. The material becomes even more artificial as it is presented as sterile hermetic and endlessly repeated loops which inherit the spirit of the original reality. However, these loops seem to move and change organically due to gradually reforming overlays of synthetic material. A meta-sync clocks all four independent projections and defines a hard and dark overall tone in this installation. WAVEFORM B premiered from 01 to 25 September 2005 in Ars Electronica 2005 festival, Linz (AT). WAVEFORM A premiered from 18 August to 23 October 2005 in White Noise, Screen Gallery, Melbourne (AU).



> SOIL (2003-2010)
SOIL © Ulf Langheinrich		SOIL has developed from a work that was originally about the drift between 4 different fields into a work that referees to Ulf Langheinrich's history as a painter and his interest in the reality and artificiality of projected images and perception of time. First presentation: 29 October - 02 November 2003: Art Cologne, Chromosome Gallery, Cologne (DE)



> PERM (2003)
PERM © Ulf Langheinrich		PERM is the first abstract “iFilm” created for the EVE Interactive Cinema system designed by Jeffrey Shaw and has a running time of approximately six minutes. The basic aesthetic strategy in the image design is the exclusive use of a small number of treatments and processing techniques, some of which make use of randomly found low-resolution material. This material is used as samples or templates. They are looped, ground, filtered, dissolved, melted, virtually digested, and finally reconfigured into a layered structure, a network of homogenous and formally strict moving images. After such a process, very little is left of the original material. This is called synthesizing. First presentation: 06 December 2003 - 22 February 2004, Cinemas du Futur (curator: Richard Castelli), Lille 2004 European Capital of Culture, Tri Postal (FR)



Performances

> CONTROL [working title] (2022)
CONTROL © Ulf Langheinrich		*CONTROL, the latest creation by Ulf Langheinrich*, is a multimedia performance that focuses on the topic of being out of control and in control, of being in sync and out of sync, of being in normal time in alert and reflection and falling into a state of timelessness. It consists of two parts: The first one is a 3D stereoscopic film featuring the two performers who in the second part perform live on stage.



> VORTEX (2020) — with Maria Chiara de'Nobili
VORTEX © Ulf Langheinrich		Dance performance and stereoscopic 3D, in collaboration with choreographer Maria Chiara de’Nobili. Premiere: 16-17 October 2020, CYNETART, HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts (DE)



> FULL ZERO (2016) — with Luo Yuebing
FULL ZERO � Ulf Langheinrich		Performance with Chinese dancer Luo Yuebing. Premiere: 28-30 September 2016, Recombinant Festival, Recombinant Media Lab, San Francisco (US).



> MOVEMENT C (2012) — with Luo Yuebing
MOVEMENT C © Ulf Langheinrich		Based on aesthetic principals developed in *MOVEMENT A* and MOVEMENT B, the new work MOVEMENT C explores the uncertainties of images that are understood as real. This performance addresses each of its viewers as single individuals, not as members of an audience. When experiencing MOVEMENT C, each viewer is at first preoccupied with the dancer, but eventually loses this awareness. No aspect of *MOVEMENT C* is designed to be spectacular; rather the intention is to cause a subtle sense of drift in the viewer's perception; to act as a seductive attraction by means of aesthetic clarity, tranquillity and depth. Premiere: 12-13 September 2012 in opening of Transart Festival in Bolzano (IT).



> KU (2010)
KU © Ulf Langheinrich		KU is a live project within a sequel of works that document research about aesthetic scenarios all dealing with the idea of a homogeneous audiovisual matter consisting of moving visual textures, spatial sound and pulsating light. KU is unique in each performance because its sonic key element is the sound of a pipe organ and the reverberation shell of the performance space, which is different in each venue. Premiere: 07-08 October 2010, TonLagen 2010 festival, Hellerau, Dresden (DE).



> MOVEMENT A (2007) — with Toshiko Oiwa
MOVEMENT A © Ulf Langheinrich		Performance for one dancer and screening on the floor. MOVEMENT A s a work about trust and presence, states of movement, movement in movement. Premiere: 21 November 2007, CYNETart_07encounter, FestspielhausHellerrau, Dresden (DE).



Audiovisual compositions for Orchestra and 3D images



> PRIMORDIUM
Composition for gamelan and classical musicians.



> RE-TIME (2015)
RE-TIME © Ulf Langheinrich		A piece for 3D live projection and orchestra: 2 flutes (+ 1 piccolo), 2 english horns, 2 Bb clarinets, bass clarinet, 4 bassoons, 6 horns, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 2 tubas, timpani, 2 marimbas, 2 vibraphone, percussionists, gong, cymbals, 2 tam-tams, bass drum, real time remote sensors pads, strings (16.14.10.8.6) and electronic (+ 3 WX5 MIDI wInd controllers in 4th part)



> SINKEN II (2015)
SINKEN © Granular-Synthesis		The piece SINKEN, for string ensemble and electronics, was originally commissonned by Art Zoyd and Orchestre national de Lille for Dangerous Visions cycle (1998-2000). The new version is for string ensemble.



Films



> DRIFT (2005) — creation Ars Electronica 2005
DRIFT © Ulf Langheinrich		This is Ulf Langheinrich’s first high definition cinemascopic experience. DRIFT is an abstract audiovisual flow, based on the notion of noise and interference. Premiere: 01-25 September 2005, Ars Electronica 2005 festival, Linz (AT).