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  • Cosmic Revelation Cosmic Revelation Karlsruhe (D) 2008 (D) - Stuttgart (D) 2016.
    With huge light installations in a detector field of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technoloy or at the Aufstiege light art festival in Stuttgart Cosmic Revelation made the energies of cosmic rays visible originating from the depths of space and bombarding our planet's atmosphere. One or two times per seconds the cosmic energies revealed its existence in bright flashy moments. Oxford Professor Martin Kemp resumes in Nature: A new art is encoding a new science.(Nature 458, 836 [2009] )
  • Coloursex Coloursex Oberhausen 2009 – Dresden 2010(D)
    The self-organisation of colour is the core principle of Coloursex. Dots of transparent colour foil build a matrix of interacting colours which evolve line by line. Curator Konrad Scheurmann writes in occasion of the exhibition "Farbe materiell – Farbe immateriell" at Festspielhaus Hellerau in Dresden 2009: "The self-organisation of colour is at the heart of the 'Coloursex' cycle of works. [...] Colour notations, such as those developed by Paul Klee in his Kunstlehre (Art Theory) book, undergo a dynamic evolution of their own."
  • I see what I see not I see what I see not Kunstfassade München (D), 2003/05.
    On invitation by Marion Ackermann the project I see what I see not was developed for the "Kunstfassade" in the heart of the city of Munich. Pixel by pixel astronomical pictures from the most objects in the universe were translated to the light panels of the media facade. The project was awarded in 2004 by the International Media Art Award by SWR & ZKM Karlsruhe. Jury member Prof. Horst Bredekamp resumes the project's special connection of art & science: A rhetoric of origins using visual means that defines origins not as an end, but as a potential for new openings.
  • Barroco Barroco Deutsche Diamand- und Edelsteinbörse, Idar-Oberstein 2003.
    A special interplay between near and far was performed by means of an extreme slide projection in occasion of the International Gemstone Trade Fair bringing arts and the monolith of the German Diamonds and Gemstone Bourse into a baroque-like dialogue of surfaces. In the barocco cycle the world of gemstonce were approached by exposing in a private gemstone collection the shadows of the precious stones directly on light sensitive slide film.
  • Heaven's Carousel Heaven's Carousel Rome (I) 2014 – Munich (D) 2025
    Roths's sonic laboratories turn space into a synthesizer or instrument: numerous individual custom designed speakers are arranged in a room to recompose their tones to specific local sounds by additive synthesis. The Heaven's Carousel adds a kinetic dimension putting 36 speakers into motion rotating with a span up to 15 meters above the audience. In occasion of the premiere 2014 in Rome Nobel laureate Adam Riess resumes in his opening speech: "This incredible dynamic sculpture created by Tim Otto Roth channels some of these feelings about the accelerating universe."
  • NATUR NATUR Black Forest (D) since summer 2022
    With NATUR a completely new type of art work premiered in summer 2022 oscillating between sculpture and land art. Each of the five letters erected on the Kleinebene hill at the Black Forest town of Oppenau is made from a different type of local timber connected by fitting joints. With the erection of the sculpture, is is handed over to the play of natural forces, thus transforming the letters into ecological sculpture. For Schirn director Sebastian Baden the 14 meter long sculpture "is an anthropologocial sign, a portent of the finiteness of the human species."
  • AIS³ [aiskju:b] AIS³ [aiskju:b] Berlin (D) 2018 – Innsbruck(A) 2025
    In the absolute darkness of the Arctic ice or the deep sea, researchers search for ultrashort light traces of neutrinos, also known as ghost particles. The recorded light movements serve as a "natural score" for the sound laboratory consisting of a cluster of up to individual 444 loudspeakers. The colour illumination indicating the played frequency turns the ensemble into a kind of electro acoustic music theatre. This leaves no one untouched, as curator Annabelle Görgen so aptly puts it in the AIS³ review: "as we resonate with AIS³ we experience not (only) processes taking place in space, but (also) ourselves."
  • Symphonia Galactea Symphonia Galactea Effelsberg (D) For this live onsite sound performance the world's second largest fully steerable radio telescope scanned in a slow, almost invisible zigzag course the Galactic plane of the Milky Way for 21cm radio emission. The resulting spectra of atomic hydrogen were translated for a circle of 16 speakers into a pulsating field of interfering microtonal tones. The effect of scanning was visually reenforced by a beam of a 7 Watt laser mounted in the primary focus of the telescope pointing to the observed sky region.
  • Sterea Skia sterea skia Bad Rothenfelde (D) 2015 – Braunschweig (D) 2022
    In occasion of the Lichtsicht Biennale curated 2015 by Peter Weibel the first light took place for this series of computer aided anaglyphic shadow theater. The clue of the six channels video projections on the 100 meter long wall of the old gradation tower in Bad Rothenfelde is that the shadows turn into spatial impressions if you wear red/cyan glasses. Recent shadow choreographies for the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, the Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche in Aschaffenburg or Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig push the idea further including also dance with the help of motion tracking.
  • 100 Days - 100 Imachinations 100 Days - 100 Imachinations Kassel (D) 2002 - Vienna 2008 (AT).
    For 100 days this series of daily abstract images appear via internet as projections parallel in various places around the globe: This visualization recall color field painting and the minimal light-based works of Dan Flavin. [...] It appears as a fluctuating wave pattern: the forms are produced by superimposing two wave patterns, whose color and scale change seemingly at random, but actually according to the numbers following the decimal point in the calculation of pi. What looks like an abstract pattern is an index of an unending process of mathematical calculation. (Laura Marks, Enfoldment and Infinity)
  • Pixelsex Pixelsex KPN Telecom Tower, Rotterdam (NL), 2005/2006
    Pixelsex brought 'life' to the at that time world's largest light façade at the KPN Tower in Rotterdam built by Renzo Piano. The fight about life and death is visualized on the 80 m high façade in a minimalist manner by a so called cellular automaton, whereby the pixels – the single picture elements – do have sex with each other, new pixels are born and other pixels die. Pixelsex was realized in collaboration with the bio-modelling group at TU Dresden.
  • From the Distant Past From the Distant Past Venice (I) 2010 – New York City 2011
    This first art & science cooperation with Hubble Space Telescope explores the frontiers of colour vision in astrophyscis. The green high power laser projection at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in the heart of Venice shows a minimalist animated laser pulse – spectra from some of the most distant objects echoing the oldest colours in the Universe. In 2011 these 'heart beats' of the cosmos were projected with two lasers on the Haydn planetarium sphere of the Museum of Natural History in New York City.
  • Videoshadows Videoshadows Frankfurt (D) 2002 - Kassel (D) 2003
    The video shadows are a radical gesture removing the optics from a camera and exposing objects on the naked video chip. For the exhibition Leuchtspur of the MMK (Museum für Neue Kunst) Frankfurt the especially designed light robot was installed in a gangway at the historic town hall of Frankfurt and the imagery was backprojected into the window pane facing the "Römer". Art historian Dagmar Keultjes was impressed a year later by the presentation at the regional council of Kassel: a poetic, almost musical effect emerges, but the abstract phenomena remain enigmatic.
  • Switch Off Switch Off German Light Art Award LUX.US, Lüdenscheid (D) 2004

    On the occasion of the German Light Art Award for his concept Switch Off Uwe Rüth wrote in the juries plea: To win a light award with an action centring the darkness implicates to render moot the whole light art and to disclose that light can't exist without darkness.
  • Memento 190 Memento 190 In summer 2014 a memorial in the Black Forest town Oppenau commemorating the soldiers killed during World War I was demolished to construct a parking. These circumstances were the motivation to initiate a temporary memorial in the artist's studio in the old station using an LED display bar scrolling through all the 190 names of the local war deads. This visual play with familiar train displays comprises more than an element of irritation, it is also a reference to the station as location, where a lot of soldiers said a finaly good-bye to their families.
    An interactive map on the project page indicates the dates and the locations of death, which could be reconstructed.

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Heaven's Carousel

  

Sonice Revolutions, Kunstareal München (D), 27 June – 13 July 2025
Wie ein Naturlaut. Humoreske nach Gustav Mahler, Alte Saline, Bad Reichenhall, (D), 16 – 25 July 2021
Cold Harmonies, St. Gertrud, Köln (D), 27 March – 11 April 2021
Heaven's Carousel, Platz der Verfassungsfreunde, Offenburg, 5 – 20 September 2020
Heaven's Carousel, GLOBALE, Karlsruhe 19 June - 9 August 2015

Heaven's Carousel, American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, 23 April – 2 May 2015
Heaven's Carousel, Hubble Space Telescope IV Conferce, Accademia dei Lince, 18–20 March 2014

NATUR

  

NATUR, Kleinebene, Oppenau (D), since 24 July 2022

[aiskju:b]

  

ULTRA | in memoriam, KG17, Innsbruck (AT), 19 June - 9 August 2015

[aiskju:b], Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris (F), 6 December 2023 - 25 Febuary 2024

Des Abysses au Cosmos, Fort Napoleon, La-Seyne-sur-Mer (F), 14 September – 8 October 2023

AIS³ [aiskju:b] (D), Ludwig Forum, Aachen, 9 September – 11 November 2019

[aiskju:b], Reaktorhalle, München, 9 & 10 February 2019

[aiskju:b], St. Elisabeth, 29 August – 16 September 2018

Symphonia Galactea

  

Symphonia Galactea, live performannce at Radiotelescope Effelsberg (D), 8 September 2018

sterea skia

Light from the Other Side, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Kulturmeile Braunschweig, 18 September 2022
Logische Phantasien, Kunsthalle in der Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, 07 March 2016 – 16 August 2020
Sun on Stage, 100 years bauhaus. the opening festival, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 16 – 24 January 2019
Die zweite Natur, Haus der elektronischen Künste (CH), Basel, 26 November 2016 - 8 January 2017
lichtsicht 5, Bad Rothenfelde, 18 September 2015 - 7 February 2016

Little Bang Theory

Little Bang Theory, Berthold Leibinger Stiftung, Ditzingen, 9 September 2016

cosmic revelation

From the Rocket to the Moon, group show featuring Cosmic revelation, Galerie Parrotta Contemporary Art, Burg Lede, Bonn, D, 1 June – 27 July 2019
Zentrale der SV-SparkassenVersicherung, Stuttgart (in occasion of the light art festival Aufstiege), 17 September - 9 October 2016
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchronton DESY Zeuthen, Astroteilchenphysik in Deutschland: Status & Perspektiven, 25 Feburary 2010
KIT Center for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA), KASCADE field at KIT Campus North, 30 March 09
KIT Center for Elementary Particle and Astroparticle Physics (KCETA), Karlruher Institut für Technology (KIT), 10 November 08

memento 190

memento 190, a temporary memorial for World War I,since August 2014

From The Distant Past

public laser projection at the Rose Center for Earth & Space, American Museum of Natural History New York City, 7 November - 27 November 2011
public laser projection at the Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, 25 September - 2 October 2011
public laser projection at the Palazzo Franchetti - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, 15 September - 14 October 2010

Coloursex

window installation at Festspielhaus Hellerau/ Dresden for the exhibition "Farbe materiell – Farbe immateriell", 11 December 2009 - 10 January 2010

sitespecific window installation at KIB Oberkirch, July -Octobre 2009

window installation at group exhibition "Konkrete Farbfotoarbeiten" at Verein für aktuelle Kunst Oberhausen, 26 April - 7 June 2009

Pixelsex

KPN Tower Rotterdam [NL], parallel to Art Rotterdam '06, February 16-20

KPN Tower Rotterdam [NL], Witte de Witt Festival (with V2) Sept. 05

Pixelsex in Rotterdam 05

100 Days - 100 Imachinations

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien [A], 28 February - 18 May 08

Bibliotheca Alexandrina [EG], 28August - 05 December 05

HFS Jungfraujoch [CH], 29 January - 09 May, 05

Center for Art & Media ZKM Karlsruhe [D], 29 November 04 -06 March 05

Schloß Dagstuhl [D], 29 November 2004 -06 March 2005

Spitzbergen [D]- till 06 March 05

Kassel [D]- till 06 March 05

Imachinations at MUMOK Vienna, until 18 May 2008

Imachinations at the New Library of Alexandria 2005

I see what I see not

Kunstfassade, Munich - November 04 - March 05

Kunstfassade, Munich - November 03 - March 04
English, 5,5 min., Quicktime, 8,0 Mb deutsch, 6,5 min., Quicktime, 9,8 Mb

Art Facade, Munich 05

Switch Off

five ways to switch off the light, Lüdenscheid 2004

ballet-photo-grammatique

ZKM Karlsruhe, Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, 19.11.2005-3.08.2006
deutsch, 6,5 min., Quicktime, 9,8 Mb
Regierungspräsidium Kassel, DTP im RP, 7 Feb. - 4 March 2003

MMK Frankfurt, Lichtspur, April - August 2002

video chip photogram with light roboter at ZKM Karlsruhe

barroco

Deutsche Diamand- und Edelsteinbörse Idar-Oberstein, Barroco, Oktober 2003

barroco: projection of 40 by 40 meters in Idar-Oberstein (D)

INSTALLATIONS

aura calculata

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Logische Phantasien, Kunsthalle in der Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, 07 March 2016 – 16 August 2020

das erste mal zum zweiten mal, Kunstverein Marburg, 13 March – 30 April 2020

Circulating Sounds – Deep Doppler meets mathematical socialism, Goethe Institut, Hanoi, (VN), 13 October – 03 November 2017

XX - oder Mummelsee in der Pfanne, Städtische Galerie Offenburg (D), 13 October – 03 November 2017

aura calculata, permanent installation, Lehmann-Zentrum, TU Dresden(D),since 2015

Es steht eine Mühle...

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XX - oder Mummelsee in der Pfanne, Städtische Galerie Offenburg (D), 13 October – 03 November 2017

Gefängnis der Sinne

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pastPrison of the Senses, invisble light installation, Kunsttage Offenburg, Altes Gefängnis Offenburg, 12-21 April 2013 wwwslashpdf_half

Magia Catoptrica

BLENDWERK - Barocke Haltungen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Schloß Achberg, Ravensburg, opening 1 August - 17 October 2010

facing science

facing science, screen projection in the context of the jubilee exhibition WeltWissen - 300 Jahre Wissenschaften in Berlin at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, 24 September 2010 - 9 January 2011
facing science, screen presentations at Institut für Mathematik & Informatik, FU Dahlem & at Erwin Schrödinger-Zentrum Campus Adlershof, November 2010 - - 9 January 2011

Chromology

Iris - die Erfindung der Farben, Städtische Museen Wetzlar (D), 18 November 2010 - 06 March 2011
Color continuo, Runge Haus, Wolgast (D), 5 June till 29 August 2010

Color continuo 1810...2010 - System und Kunst der Farbe, Altana Gallery University Collections Dresden (D), 24 Oct. 2009 - 27 February 2010

early webprojects

www.wahrscheinlich.org, 1997

www.silentio.org, 1998