75 years of Wolf Nkole Helzle

Audiovisual art installation by Wolf Nkole Helzle in the Petrushof in Obermarchtal

To mark the anniversary, artist Wolf Nkole Helzle is opening his doors at Petrushof in Obermarchtal with myMatrix, the highly acclaimed audiovisual art installation that has already been shown in Beijing, Birmingham, Luxembourg and San Francisco, among other places. Using two video projectors controlled by specially developed software, the audience enters a spacious installation of images and sound. The current projection features thousands of previously unpublished photographs from the artist's travels and encounters, as well as artistic works from his photographic diary. Seventeen musicians were recorded in the recording studio for the myMatrix installation and interact with the images with their own musical genres.

how my brain works - audiovisual media art installation

10 years in the Swabian Alb, a diary

The installation will be on display – and audible – for seven hours on both days of the exhibition. Michael Fetscher, owner of the White Fir recording studio in Trochtelfingen, used this material as the starting point for an ingenious idea. Together with Wolf Helzle, he invited renowned musicians to the studio to record seven hours of music in constant rotation, which can now be heard simultaneously in the Münsingen installation. The day in the studio could not have been more colourful, multifaceted and intense. Each musician was introduced to Helzle's visual cosmos, which could be seen on several monitors in all rooms.

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Audiovisual Installation by Wolf Nkole Helzle

Of all images taken during the week from 28 May to 1 June 2018 of the Old Camp and the former military training area, 4,000 were selected, which are now projected onto the walls of a large room in the Atelierhaus BT18 using three video projectors. This collective work of art refers to the current transformation that the Old Camp is currently undergoing from military to private use, accompanies it and makes it visible and audible with highly topical artistic means and from a variety of perspectives. It illustrates the complexity of the process in a congenial way: The moving composition of W.N. Helzle interacts with the sounds arranged by Michael Fetscher. 

German protestant church day in Berlin 2017

24. - 28. 5. 2017

Participation: Art project: Digital picture offering: We create a valuable world

•      The artist needs photos of you: what is precious to you, what touches you, makes you happy, surprised ...
•      Send photos via smartphone to mail@helzle.com or www.my-matrix.org or transfer them here at the booth (via USB stick or memory card)
•      Here at this booth, you can experience the growing of the work of art. Be there!
•      More information (you can also go from home) flyers are everywhere

Helzle mobile: 0170-1887140
Link to upload the pictures

World exhibition Reformation in Wittenberg

31. 5. -5. 6. 2017

Participation: Art project: Digital picture offering: We create a valuable world

•      The artist needs photos of you: what is precious to you, what touches you, makes you happy, surprised ...
•      Send photos via smartphone to mail@helzle.com or www.my-matrix.org or transfer them here at the booth (via USB stick or memory card)
•      Here at this booth, you can experience the growing of the work of art. Be there!
•      More information (you can also go from home) flyers are everywhere

Helzle mobile: 0170-1887140
Link to upload the pictures

A direct continuation of the Kirchentag in Berlin takes place at the world exhibition Reformation in Wittenberg. The project is invited by the Protestant Churches of Europe (GEKE) and, in particular, of Protestantism Kiirch vu Létzebuerg (Luxembourg). The locality is located in the area "Religion / Ecumenism" between the EKD "Gasthaus Ökumene" and the LWB´s "Himmelszelt", west of the Luthergarten.

Express Yourself/city

20.06.-25.06.2016

1st Public Urban Lab Bremen: The HSB and the M2C Institute transform  the area in front of the Overseas Museum at Bremen Main Station in a Public Urban Lab about participatory urban development. myMatrix is there too.

Be part of the Birmingham Matrix

2016 May 9 to 16

URL for upload app.my-matrix.org/brum The aim of the project is a multidimensional portrait of Birmingham with all its various aspects, consisting of thousands of individual images. Uploaded by all involved in the project, local partners and interested multinational groups to the myMatrix server. On Saturday 15/05/2016 the public presentation of the results will take place.

PM Camp Stuttgart 2016

29. + 30. April 2016

PM Camp Stuttgart 2016 / Die Kunst des Projekts / has invited Wolf Nkole Helzle and his collective art project myMatrix. All participants are asked to upload their pictures onto the myMatrix-Server to generate a 3D-mosaic.

30 years of IIS Fraunhofer Society Erlangen

A kaleidoscope of the company's history

For the 30th anniversary of the Fraunhofer IIS of Social Media Artist Wolf Nkole Helzle has portrayed photographically employees of the various sites and regions of the Institute. In the exhibition, both all individual portraits can be seen as well as a face, which is formed by equal superposition of all those involved: "The Face of Fraunhofer IIS." On the balustrade at the entrance another work of the artist projected, which represents thousands of different photographs of employees and developments of the Institute in a constantly changing 3D matrix.

JavaOne, San Francisco, USA

October 25 to 29 2015

The around 10.000 attendees of the JavaOne-conference upload their pictures of the this years event onto the myMatrix-Server for a big picture. Also the pictures of 20 years of Java will be seen with a Matrix at the opening of the conference.

Link to the video of the final Matrix.

College of Art and Design, Beijing, China

October 12 to 23 2015

The 1,600 students of the College of Art and Design at the University of Technology Beijing will bring pictures of their family environment and upload them to the myMatrix-database.

Link to the video of this work

Luxembourg Festival

May 22 to 25 2015

Together with participants of this year's symposium of the ii_project, the population of Luxembourg and their guests, the 3D mosaic was shown during the Luxembourg Festival from 22 to 25th May 2015 night and day on the Place d'Armes.

JavaLand_2015, Bruehl, Germany

March 24 to 25 2015

The 1,000 participants of the JavaLand-community 2015 made a big picture which everyone was invited to upload his impressions via smartphone.

> DemoVideo
> Interview with Stephen Chin at nighthacking.com
> Flyer (sorry only in German)

InterFace AG, Unterhaching near Munich, Germany

June 27, 2014

myMatrix premiered on June 27, 2014 at the 30-year anniversary of the InterFace AG. In addition to pictures of the company's history, visitors were also able to upload pictures into the matrix.

Wolf Nkole Helzle - Selfportrait

in progress

The photographic diary of media artist Wolf Nkole Helzle as a Biography Matrix.

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