1st Edition of
MICME. Interactive Art Festival
June 2024
INSTALLATION «Spectral Specula»
Authors: Chris Strickler y Kira Wieckenberg
Music: Vicente Cervera
Final project by the students of the International Master’s Degree in Multimedia Creation for the Live Shows
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The #MICME. Interactive Art Festival is an exhibition of the final projects of the Master’s students, tutored by the teaching staff. The festival highlights the role of multimedia and technologies as the core of the artistic experience: live audiovisuals, performances and interactive improvisations in real time.
«The multimedia installation Spectral Specula is a collaborative work between Chris Strickler, Kira Wieckenberg and Vicente Cervera as sound designer. It is an effort to explore the sculptural potential of the combination of ceramics, servomotors and light. The work was conceived as an intense process of research in the field of sculpture, motorisation and programming, ultimately converging in a spectacle of light and movement.
The sculpture consists of a wooden structure to which 27 servomotors are attached. Attached to each of these are the same number of ceramic pieces, all with a highly reflective surface; individually shaped pieces that move with undulating movements by means of their corresponding motor. This movement is controlled by a network that coordinates and choreographs the motors and their communication with each other.
The highly reflective and moving surfaces of the pieces are in turn illuminated by several LED lights that shine in different colours and from different angles on the piece. Their reflections bounce off the surrounding walls, opening up a poetic world of light for visitors.»
Kira Wieckenberg
Kira Wieckenberg
Student of the 2nd promotion of the MICME. International Master in Multimedia Creation for Live Shows at LABA Valencia, she graduated in July 2024.
She is a multimedia artist. Although she works with a variety of media such as video, performance, sculpture and drawing, she focuses on creating immersive and atmospheric multimedia installations.
For Kira Wieckenberg, every artistic process must begin with a question, a problem, an enigma. Her work revolves around the human experience of living in a complex world, in the suspense of ignorance, fear and ambiguity.
Kira Wieckenberg lives and works in Hannover and Valencia. In 2022 she finished her studies of Fine Arts at the University of Art in Braunschweig with a diploma with honours, showing the solo exhibition ‘es gibt torte’. She studied a Master’s degree in Multimedia Creation at the LABA Valencia University with the support of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, of which she has been a scholarship holder since 2021.
Chris Strickler
Student of the 2nd promotion of the MICME. International Master in Multimedia Creation for Live Shows at LABA Valencia, he graduated in July 2024.
Multidisciplinary multimedia artist specializing in interactive installations and immersive experiences that explore the relationship between light, technology, play, and perception. With a background in animation, his practice has evolved towards real-time media, interaction, and spatial design. His work combines analog and digital technologies to create participatory experiences in which the audience becomes an active part of the artwork. Through experimentation, he investigates the dialogue between nature and technology, the ephemeral and the physical, incorporating both emerging tools and analog video technologies, including video synthesizers and CRT televisions.
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