Carsten Nicolai

Ryoji Ikeda

The visualization of sound presented in book form and accompanied by a CD-ROM by Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai.

Cyclo. Id

Carsten Nicolai's stimulating audio-visual art challenges our perception and worldview. This book explores the work of the internationally renowned German artist. Parallel Lines Cross at Infinity showcases Carsten Nicolai's fascinating artwork from the past ten years, which explores the boundaries and intersections between art, nature, and science.

334 M/s, Portrait Humboldt, Thermic, Raster Gradient, Yes/no

Pionier 1: Carsten Nicolai

Kuzunao Abe

Documents artist and musician Carsten Nicolai's eponymous project--in analog form as a book and in digital form on an included DVD with supplementary audio and video material.

Syn Chron

Ur-Geräusch / Primal Sound

Andrea Lissoni

This publication captures the consciousness-altering experience of Carsten Nicolai's formidable and expandable project unidisplay. An excursion into scientific discourse, technical experimentation, architecture, art, and sound, unidisplay forms a compelling fresco out of physical phenomena, perspectives, and human perception. It consists of a more than 50-meter-long screen on which oscillating visual patterns and large-scale graphic modules are projected. This screen is flanked by two mirrored walls that expand the projections infinitely. The resulting digital (dis)orientation, color effects, flickering, optical illusions, and reflections take our perception to its limits. This book gives readers the opportunity to disentangle the project's concentrated sensory flood layer by layer. In the process, they not only gain insight into Nicolai's impressive visual theories, but also into their own perceptions - and how they might lead them astray.

Unidisplay

A "visual dictionary on two-dimensional grids and geometric tilings."--Pref.

Grid Index

In Grid Index, Carsten Nicolai created a visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. Now Moiré Index is dedicated to his exploration of the moiré effect--a phenomenon that can be created by the overlay of lines. Although such interference patterns are mostly considered to be unwanted side effects, they are actually extremely interesting from an aesthetic perspective. Based upon years of research, Nicolai has analyzed and systematically unlocked fundamental structures of crucial importance to the visualization of data. As the first extensive visual compendium of these interference patterns, Moiré Index is the definitive reference book for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers, mathematicians, or anyone else who wants to use its content as a basis for graphic designs. A CD accompanies the book and contains not only the featured moirés as digital files, but also individual elements that can be used to create an almost endless amount of new overlays. These files can be used effortlessly with virtually any platform, operating system, and graphics software and can be applied in every field of visual culture.

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