Timo Kahlen - Intermedia
Sound sculptor and media artist Timo Kahlen (* 1966) has been creating subtle, intriguing, eye- and earcatching, temporary media sculptures and sound installations for more than 30 years.Presenting challenges to our imagination and perception, Kahlen has chosen to work with new, often unusual, transient and ‘immaterial‘ media: with wind and steam, with light and shade, with pixels and dust, with sound, vibration and noise.
"It‘s a paradox. In the dirty twittering, gurgling, hissing, roaring, growling, whistling, thundering, humming, droning, grinding, snapping, rustling and crackling noises we discover unexpected beauty...”
Source: http://www.timo-kahlen.de/projectsbiogr.htm
WORKS and PROJECTS
Works that Kahlen has created have been categorised under the following headings:
Recent experimental photography work: Isolation, 2020
from the series "Rasenstücke" (Turf), 2002 - 2020 by Timo Kahlen
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| Isolation, 2020 |
Isolated fragments of turf, temporarily removed from their contexts.
How can the pandemic experience of our times, the experience of 'social distancing', the lack of physical personal contact, be visualized ?
Series of works created in March 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic and times of 'social distancing
Sound Installation: Timo Kahlen. Rohschnitt (Rough Cut), 2016
Interactive net art
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| Timo Kahlen. Rohschnitt (Rough Cut), 2016 Interactive net art |
Interactive projection with multiple layers of embedded sound. Touch and investigate objects
with the cursor, click at or pause to generate your individual, interactive composition of raw sound.
Take your time ! Initially a virtual, hybrid, rough cut model tailored for the "Hoerschwelle" sound art exhibition in the project space at Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin 2016.
The sounds embedded in the room represent sounds recorded when constructing the model from scratch, from cardboard and paper, and when reworking the model on the computer: raw, rough sounds of drawing,
cutting, creasing, folding, ripping, copying, pasting and reediting; acoustic fragments of 'work in progress'.
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Publications
Kahlen not only produces and creates art works and installations but also lectures and writes and has amassed a really exciting collection of catalogues on his work and processes, only a fraction of these are listed here:Timo Kahlen: Noise & Beauty. 25 Years of Media Art (2010),
Sound Art : Sound as a Medium of Art, ZKM Karlsruhe (2012),
Timo Kahlen: Earcatcher. Selected Works 1990 - 2014, Berlin (2014),
Timo Kahlen: Phosphor. Phosphorus Photography and Film, Berlin (2016),
Timo Kahlen: Sculpting Light. Experiments in Photography 1986 - 2018 (2018),
Land_Scope. Muenchner Stadtmuseum and Snoeck Verlag, Köln (2018),
Flügelschlag: Insekten in der zeitgenössischen Kunst. Distanz Verlag (2019),
Timo Kahlen: aus der Luft gegriffen / in trockenen Tüchern (2020),
Sound Art : Sound as a Medium of Art. Peter Weibel, ZKM Karlsruhe
and MIT Press, Cambridge / USA (2020)
More Information
Tim Kahlen Website