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SHOW TITLE: Hive
ARTISTS: Kurt Hentschlager
CURATOR: Murray Horne

Hive is a 3D-animated audiovisual installation where gallery visitors confront a swirling mass of amorphous figures, appearing as a collective of matter as opposed to individual beings in deep space.

HIVE’s choreographed motion-, light- and sonic patterns create an immersive, highly dynamic figurative landscape, a pulsing audiovisual matter, without a beginning or end. Moment by moment computer generated, HIVE takes on the notion of being alive and presents an artificial organism in eternal motion and interplay.

The stereoscopic nature of the projection introduces a whimsical, ethereal quality, rendering a delicate, yet forceful spatial expanse right in front of the audience.

The sound in HIVE is created by the events present – including swarm motion and behavior as well as changes in light and color. All visual appearances render a sonic expression. As the choreography of the work passes through different phases, so does the sound change its character over time.

Chicago based Austrian artist Kurt Hentschläger creates audiovisual performances and installations. He began to exhibit his work in 1983, creating surreal machine-objects, and since has been working with time-based media, film, video, animation and sound.