UnStumm – conversation of moving image and sound featuring Seth Cluett

UnStumm is a project for real-time film and music (Echtzeitfilm) for cross-disciplinary and cross cultural collaboration between visual artists and musicians from Germany and other countries. It aims to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange, where a common complex artistic language is invented and used to communicate narratives, and textures, colliding, combining, and attracting worlds of sight and sound.

September 9, 2023

3:30pm

Harvestworks Art and Technology Program

Nolan Park, Building 10a
Governor’s Island, NYC

UnStumm is a project for real-time film and music (Echtzeitfilm) for cross-disciplinary and cross cultural collaboration between visual artists and musicians from Germany and other countries. It aims to create an environment of cultural and creative exchange, where a common complex artistic language is invented and used to communicate narratives, and textures, colliding, combining, and attracting worlds of sight and sound. Since 2016 UnStumm has performed in 12 countries worldwide. Collaborations have taken place with more than 65 live visual artists, musicians, and dancers. In their audiovisual live performance, they will use live electronics and moving image for an immersive experience. Over the past years, UnStumm has collaborated with Seth Cluett on several telematic augmented reality performances. This performance will be the first in-situ collaboration between UnStumm and Seth Cluett.

After the performance, UnStumm will present their augmented-reality app and platform UnStumm – Augmented Voyage (https://unstumm.com/augmented-voyage/). This app enables real-time telematic augmented reality performances with video, movement, and sound.

UnStumm Augmented Voyage copyright UnStumm VGBildKunst Docu ClaudiaSchmitz Jan Thierhoff


About the artist(s)

NICOLA L. HEIN is a sound artist, guitarist, composer, researcher in the field of music aesthetics and cybernetics. He professor for digital creation and artistic director of the studio for electronic music at the University of Music Lübeck. His work is determined by the interaction of sound, space, light, movement and the emergent dynamics of aesthetic systems.


As an international media artist, AIDUALC ZTIMHCS explores boundaries: Limits of perception, real and imagined barriers, liquid processes, body discourses. She explores paradigms of media translation as a solo artist and in collaborative transmedia projects. She uses sculpture and projections, multidimensional drawing, (live) moving image, AI and food in real space, virtual and augmented reality to explore new forms of sound, space and experience.


Seth Cluett is an internationally recognized composer and artist whose quiet, patient practice explores the territory between the senses, with a compelling attention to perception. His work is driven by themes of ecological collapse and resilience, often expressed through materials found in nature.