Vito Willems


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Escape From The Wheel
Time Vacuum III
Loud Silence
Contra Marītō
Time Vacuum II
Time Vacuum I
Resonance and Repetition
The Charge
Castle 6
Governors of the Æther
Fluxus Noesis
Membrane Series
Noema
Panoptic Emissions
Open Axis
Cube of Space
Glimpulse
Impossible Interaction

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Passage I
Fragile Ecologies
Apophenia
Dharma Initiatives
Jaunu
Untitled
Disruptive Silence
_Interference_

Publications>


Decentralizing Authorship, Decentralizing the Self
Non-Hierarchical Modes of Listening
The Divinity of Art and the Destruction of Classification
Virtuality and the Superdynamical
Fluid Space & Transphysical Entities
Noema #1 | Noema #2
Signalement

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Noema (2018)
Interactive Audiovisual Spatial Installation | Decaphonic Sound + Electromechanics

Location

13.06.2018 - 15.06.2018 | Sónar+D, Barcelona (ES)

Team

Concept, Sound and System Design - Vito Willems
Product Design - Joost Dankelman
Visual Assistance - Jim Brady

Materials

8 Directional Loudspeakers, 2 Omnidirectional Loudspeakers, 7 Custom Designed Kinetic Light Objects, Custom Hanging System, DC-Motors, 4 Anchored Tracking System, Custom Wireless Tag Holder, Custom Multichannel Motor Interface, Custom Multichannel Light Interface, Audio Mixer, Amplifier, Audio Interface, Computer with Custom Software


Software

Sound and Signal Processing in Max/MSP
Serial Communication in Arduino (C++)
4DSOUND Monitor

About

The word ‘Noema’ comes from the Greek word νόημα (noéma) and means “the appearance of an object or item as the perceiving subject apprehends it”. This duality constitutes a deeper dimension that becomes appearant in this interactive work. First it contains the reception of the item, in the installations case the apprehension of the kinetic object. Secondly it inevitably creates an action that the visitor is giving back to the system. This constitutes a recursive process that is fundamental of how the installations evolves.

Text

‘Noema’ is interactive installation presented in a large darkened enclosed space. The installation is a deconstruction of physical space through kinetic light objects and spatial sound. By applying advanced technologies for abstracting the space an innovative experience, focused on the individuated reception of the visitor, emerges. In the work the individual becomes the performer within his own imagination. The installation works with a tracking-system that analyses the position of the visitor and implies a non-linear experiential structure whose time and events depend on the relationship the viewer has with the system. The constant link between the viewer’s behaviour and the system generates a composed environment that represents the space in an unique way.