Welcome to Unlekker.net

Unlekker contains current projects by Marius Watz. See flickr.com/photos/watz for current sketches or Evolutionzone for older experiments.

 
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Blog: Generator.x
Blog: Code & Form

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May 23.2008: Selected images from Illuminations B are now for sale through LUMAS Editions.

Aug 31.2007: Posted Packing, a new series of prints based on circle packing algorithms. Packing will premiere at the Scriptedbypurpose exhibition, curated by Marc Fornes and Skylar Tibbits.

Aug 31.2007: This pseudo-blog has long been neglected, mostly due to the fact that it isn't in fact running as a proper blog.

I plan to create a new web site to document my work. Unlekker.net will then become a personal blog to complement my existing blogs Generator.x and Code & Form.

Please also note that my Flickr stream might sometimes be more current than Unlekker.

MARIUS WATZ is an artist working with computer code to explore virtual spaces defined by rule-based systems. He currently shares his time between Brooklyn, New York and Oslo, Norway.

Watz is represented by [DAM]Berlin and LUMAS Editions. Full biography here: mariuswatz.com

 
 
Grid distortions. Laser cuts.


20010

Jun 13-19: Workshop at Shakerag, St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, Tennessee

Jun 10: New public commission for Bybanen, Bergen

Apr 23-May 23: Mediaruimte, Brussels

Mar 2: Lecture at Shapeshifters, Brussels

Feb 18: Panel discussion, ARCOmadrid

2009

Dec 8-Apr 11: Decode: Digital Design Sensations, Victoria & Albert Museum

Oct 30-Nov 1: Grafill Edit 2009, Geilo

Oct 24: Rishaug vs Watz, Insomnia Festival, Tromsø

Oct 23: System:system, St. Cecilia's Convent, Willamsburg, NY. Produced by Random Number

Oct 8: Bright Nights, projection on Manhattan Bridge, DUMBO, produced by Random Number

Oct 3: Rishaug vs Watz, Verkstedhallen, Trondheim

Oct 2: Rishaug vs Watz, The Villa, Oslo

Sep 26: Rishaug vs Watz, EKKO Festival, Bergen

Aug 28: Helical, new permanent installation at Union Bryggeri, Skien, Norway

Jun 9-30:  ElectroPlastique #1 showing at Sonica, Galerija Jakopič, Ljubjlana, Slovenia.

Jun 3: Packing print series shown at Powered by Nature exhibition at DogA (Norwegian Center for Design and Architecture)

Apr 11: Monkey Town, projections for concert with Håkon Kornstad.

Apr 2-13: KIOSK. Artefacts of a Post-Digital Age, STRP Festival, Eindhoven

Mar 7: "Darkness Extends: Norwegian Music Now". Concert with Alexander Rishaug at Monkeytown.

Mar 5-9: "Darkness Descends: Norwegian Art Now". Group show in New York organized by Random Number and M*A*S*H NY.

Feb 7 - Apr 19: "CODE and FORM". Show with CEB Reas at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Feb 3-7: "Code, Form, Space". Symposium at Carnegie-Mellon University

2008

Nov 21 - Jan 17: "Mappings". Solo show, [DAM]Berlin.

Oct 20-26: Concerts in Japan with Alexander Rishaug, ALOG and Jana Winderen.

Sep 26-27: MAXALOT at Todaysart 2008, The Hague.

Sep 14: Rishaug / Watz at Høvikodden Live 2008, Oslo.

Sep 12-14: Minitek festival, New York.

Jul 2-6: "Frozen" exhibition, 5 Days Off festival, Amsterdam.

Jun 27: Rishaug / Watz concert, Lofoten International Art Festival.

May 11 - Jun 14: Packing at Naturschauspiele exhibition, Norwegian Embassy, Berlin.

Apr 24 - May 08: San Francisco International Film Festival. ElectroPlastique #1 shown as part of a screening programme on generative art.

Apr 17 - May 11: Abstracts of Syn at Festival Digital Media 1.0, València, Italy. Kugelstudie.

Mar 24 - Apr 23: ElectroPlastiques, solo exhibition at Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, Ohio.

Feb 18-29: Workshop, HyperWerk Institute of Postindustrial Design, Basel.

Feb 11-14: Digital Architecture workshop, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

Feb 9: Rishaug / Watz, concert at Kabinett, Oslo.

Feb 8: Rishaug / Watz, concert at VJ picks DJ, Bergen.

Feb 2 - Mar 8: Generator.x 2.0 exhibition, [DAM]Berlin, Berlin.

Feb 1: Generator.x 2.0: Audio-visual, concert with Alexander Rishaug, Berlin.

Jan 24 - Feb 2: Generator.x 2.0 workshop, Club Transmediale.08, Berlin.

2007

Nov 23: Lecture, The Cinematic Experience conference at Cimatics festival, Brussels.

Nov 19-20: AV Masterclass at Cimatics festival, Brussels.

Nov 13: Rishaug vs. Watz performance, part of Tomorrow now at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice.

Nov 5-9: Workshop at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart.

Oct 29 - Nov 3: Lecture and workshop at Olhares de Outono, Porto.

Nov 12: Lecture and workshop at Olhares de Outono, Porto.

Oct 12: Kugelstudie shown as part of Time Square, Copenhagen.

Oct 6: Phonophani vs. Watz, Generator.x concert at Dresden Days of Contemporary Music.

Sep 21-24: Object #1 at TAG / Todaysart, The Hague

Sep 7: Packing at Scriptedbypurpose, FUEL Collection, Philadelphia

Aug 24-25: Processing workshop, SIAA, Sheffield

Aug 3-5: WikiMania, Taipei

May 31: Lecture, Reboot 2007, Copenhagen

May 19: Rishaug vs. Watz, Lovebytes, Sheffield

May 12-20: Illuminations B and Object #1 at Designmai, Berlin

May 10-11: MC, Visuelt 2007 conference, Oslo

Apr 31-May 4: Workshop, Hyperwerk, Basel

Apr 16-20: Workshop, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart

Mar 31: Keynote, PixelACHE 2007, Helsinki

Mar 19-23: Workshop, KHiO Oslo

Mar 9-Apr 9: Abstracts of Syn, MuseumsQuartier, Wien. Kugelstudie.

Mar 1-May 10: Abstracts of Syn, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz. Kugelstudie.

Feb 28: Pecha Kucha, Oslo

Jan 23-Feb 03: Liquid Space workshop, Club Transmediale

Jan 23-Feb 03: Liquid Space workshop, Club Transmediale

Jan 30-31: Illuminations B, Club Transmediale

2006

Dec 11-14: Processing workshop, Hyperwerk, Basel.

Dec 9: Phonophani vs. Watz, Generator.x at Madeira DIG.

Nov 10-19: New installation at Interface & Society exhibition, Henie-Onstad Art Center, Oslo.

Nov 10: Lecture at Interface & Society conference, Henie-Onstad Art Center, Oslo.

Oct 3-6: Live visuals workshop at the Academy of Art, Oslo.

Oct 2: Lecture at Åpent Forum at the Academy of Art, Oslo.

Sep 30: ElectroPlastique #2 at Nuit Blanche at the Drake Hotel, Toronto.

Sep 23-Nov: Further Processing, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria. Co-curator, Kugelstudie.

Sep 3: MuseumsQuartier, Wien, Austria. Premiere of Kugelstudie, in cooperation with Kunstverein Medienturm.

Sep 1-7: Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria. ElectroPlastique #1 as part of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival.

Aug 26: Punkt festival 2006, Kristiansand, Norway. Concert, Phonophani vs. Watz.

July 18: Emoção Art.ficial 3.0 exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Jun -July: Artist-in-residence, Medienturm Graz / Museumsquartier Wien.

Jun 1-2: C.stem. Generative art exhibition, Turin.

May 26: AMODA Digital Showcase, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin.

May 10-14: Neon Organic and ElectroPlastique #2 at Paysages Electroniques, electronic music festival, Lille.

May 8-12: OFFF, Barcelona, EXTEND: Advanced Processing Workshop, lecture and System_C in the exhibition.

Apr.19-29: Generator.x concert tour, Norway. With Frank Bretschneider, Lia, Emi Maeda and Phonophani.

Mar.2-12: New projection visuals at the Sage Gateshead for the AV.06 festival, Newcastle, Englad.

Mar.2-12: System_C (4 drawings) in the Animated Drawings exhibition, MIMA, Middlesbrough, England

Jan.14-Feb.5: Generator.x exhibition on tour in Stavanger.

2005

Oct.25-Nov.4: Neon Organic in href=proce55ing at MediaRuimte, Brussels, Belgium. The exhibition is part of the Cimatics_05 festival, Brussels, Belgium. Artist brunch Oct 31.

Oct.14-Nov.16: Neon Organic and System_C at Estrategias Generativos, Circulo Bellas Artes, Tenerife, Spain

Oct.5: Lecture at Hybrid Practices symposium, KHiB, Bergen, Norway (Curator)

Sep.23-24: Generator.x conference on generative art and design, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway (Director)

Sep.17:  Lecture at "Vers un alter design?" symposium, part of the D.Day exhibition at Centre Pompidou, Paris

Aug.27:  Neon Organic, new multi-screen projection for Vattenfall building in Berlin

Aug.18-Oct: AmoebaAbstracts 1-3 as part of Abstraction Now shown at White Noise, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia

Jun.3-5:  ElectroPlastique and live visuals at Territoires Electroniques, Aix-en-Provence.

May.27 - Jun.5:  GasWorks 1-3 at Generative-x, a part of the onedotzero9 at ICA in London.

May.10: The DVD compilation "Essays on Radio: Can I have two minutes of your time?" released on Cronica Electronica, including my video for "int.14/37" by @c.

Mar.25 - Apr.17:  GasWorks 1-3 showing at Today in Paradise exhibition at Röda Sten in Göteborg.

Feb.19 - Apr.17:  System_C at Göteborg Konstmuseum as part of Electrohype / Segment.

Feb.8:  System_C at Club Transmediale, Berlin

Feb.7-21:  Universal Digest Machine at the exhibition Mitt Språk, Stavanger

Feb.4:  Visuals (TinyLittleElements vs. Watz) at Club Transmediale, Berlin

2004

Nov.27-Jan 23:  System_C atElectrohype Biennial, Malmö

Nov.15-19:  Processing workshop at KHiB, Bergen.

Nov.04:  System_A and visual performance with the percussion group SISU at Accenture Innovation Fair

Oct.25:  Presentation at Dorkbot Belgium at Recyclart, Brussels, kicking off the Cimatics festival.

Oct.11-15:  Processing workshop in Lisbon, Portugal. Organised by Atmosferas.

Sep 16-Oct 31:  DIGITAL MOVE 2 in Berlin, at the Sony Center in Potsdamer Platz.

Sep.20-24:  Processing workshop at Aalborg University, Copenhagen.

Aug.24-25:  Processing workshop at Oslo School of Architecture.

August:  Jury for the Live Visuals Award, Berlin.

June.16-20:  AmoebaAbstracts 1-3 in Sonar exhibition, Barcelona. Presentation at Elisava School of Design.

May.20:  Launch of GasWorks 1-3 online at Atmosferas.net, Portugal.

May.12-15:  Magdalena Festival in Maribor, Slovenia. Processing workshop and presentation.

May.05-09:  RAM 5 Open Source Media Architecture workshop in Riga

Apr.03:  Wibutee and Voss Open visual improv session at Vossajazz

Mar.20: "Squeaky Happy Slogan Machine", part of Manyfacture, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik

Feb.24:  DREIx3x2x2D at First Flush, Wien

Jan.13:  Processing workshop at HyperWerk, Basel

2003

Dec.15: New project at nonTVTVstation, Stockholm

Nov.1 -Dec.23:  Visiting artist at Splintermind, Stockholm

Nov.21: Wibutee at Blå, Oslo

Nov.20: Wibutee at Rust, Volda

Nov.8: Wibutee at TOU Scene, Stavanger

Nov.7: Wibutee at Blæst, Trondheim

Oct.30: Wibutee at Tampere Jazz Happening

Oct.20: Computational Design workshop at Universität der Künste, Berlin

Sep.12: Wibutee at Jazz à la Villette, Paris

Sep.09: Principles of Indeterminism, VJ performance at Ars Electronica 2003, Linz

Aug.29: AmoebaAbstracts 1-3 at Abstraction Now, Künstlerhaus, Wien

Jun.1 :Drawing machine 1-12, art for public digital space