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Interactive LED Installation
About
Media architect, light designer, and digital artist, Ulysse’s work investigates the dynamic interplay between light, imagery, and space. With computational processes, he creates immersive installations and performative experiences that explore a post– digital aesthetic of technology.
His training in architecture laid the foundation of his practice, and motivated by a deep interest in performing art, he expanded it into the fields of light design and art installation. Later on, after taking part in various events, he also gained a experience-grounded knowledge of event and production management and coordination.
Along the way, he also ventured into 3D design, printing and also in performance.
He graduated in 2019 from the Bauhaus University Weimar with a master’s degree in Media Architecture following a bachelor’s degree in Architecture from the National School of Architecture of Strasbourg.
Ulysse is currently based in Leipzig, where he works independently and collaborates with other artists, festivals, event agency, design offices, and theater groups. He is also an active member of the Wisp-Kollektiv, which organizes exhitibitions, laboratory weeks and events.
Expertise
Lighting & Space
Light is matter, object and, space all at once. Design, programing and building installations with light at its core, and plan its use in theater, scenography or immersive environments, with a technical knowledge grounded in experience.
Interactive Systems
Anything can interact with anything with the right interface. Design of interaction schemes and user-friendly playful interfaces i.e. body data tracking with wearable sensors or visitor-activated installation.
Imagery
Production of video and image content, data visualization, with a strong focus on interactive and or generative content for stages, performance or installations, centered around an abstract yet realistic aesthetic.
Project Management
The non-artistic side of art and cultural projects yet asks for creativity, with experiences in project initiation and production, team coordination, PR & communication, stage management and being nice with people.
Experience
2023
- Production assistant for Urban FX – Under Armor AW25 Collection Presentation – Amsterdam, NL
- Light Installation & Scenography– Seanaps Festival – Leipzig, DE
- Visuals and light – Anika Summer 2023 Tour
- Technical Production, Mapping Installation, Traumburg Festival – Gommern, DE
- Backstage Manager for Urban FX – Under Armor SS24 Collection Presentation – Amsterdam, NL
- Stage Hand, Light Build-up – Fiber Festival – Amsterdam, NL
- Interaction and light design, creative coding for theater – Holobiontinnen – LOFFT Theater, Leipzig / Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, DE
- Curation, Production, Moderation of panel discussion – Wisp Mikro Fest – HP7, Leipzig, DE
- Video production for Theater – Viecher – Schaubühne Lindenfels, Leipzig, DE
- Light installation and Visuals – TransCenturyUpdate Festival – UT Connewitz, Leipzig, DE
- Production, Coordination, Curation – WISP Laboratory Week – Communitsm, Athens, GR
- Technical and Visual Production for Urban FX – Footlocker Team Week – Mierlo, NL
- Light installation ‘Holo Orb’ – Tarmac – Halle (Saale), DE
- Light installation ‘Cut Through’ – Traumburg Festival – Gommern, DE
- Content for Erlbenissportal for whitebox dresden GmbH – Weimar, DE
- Stage management, Technical Build-up– Fiber Festival – Amsterdam, NL
- Light Installation – Trip Festival – Conne Island, Leipzig, DE
- Light installation and Scenography for theater – Megacorp – Cammerspiele, Leipzig, DE
- Interactive performance ‘Lichtwolke’ – Weimar, DE
- Interactive installation ‘Plantes Musicales’– WISP Exhibition – Leipzig, DE
- Technical build– up – Fiber Festival – Amsterdam, NL
- Light installation and Scenography for theater – Megacorp – Cammerspiele, Leipzig, DE
- Interactive Visuals for DID Live – Sommercontrast – Swidwin, PL
- Content production for a LED Celling for whitebox dresden GmbH – Eisenach, DE
- Light installation programming for whitebox dresden GmbH – Weimar, DE
- Interactive Visuals for an AR Theater play – Online
- Interactive light for Theater – Im Inneren der Garten – Anna Linde Leipzig, DE
- EEG interactive Visuals – Reafference – Berlin, DE / Online
- Visual for Interactive lecture – LOFFT Theater – Leipzig, DE
- 3D Animation – Waking Life Festival – Online Edition
- Light design for theater – ZEUGEN – UT Connewitz, Leipzig, DE
- Light Installation ‘Diffrakt’ – transit, Chemnitz, DE
- Dance Performance ‘bauhaus.bewegte.bilder’ – Weimar, Gera, Dessau, Altenburg, DE
- Generative Type Animation for Tanja Busking – Den Haag, NL
- Light design for theater – Sister from another sister – Cammerspiele, Leipzig, DE
- Light design and scenography for theater – Steppenläufer – OPT, Leipzig, DE / Basel, CH
- Art installation ‘People Collective’ – Waking Life Festival – Crato, PT
- Mapping Sculture – Bring your own beamer – Gent, BE
- Art Installation – Waking Life – Crato, PT
- Stage design and building ‘Spherical Emperical’ – AfrikaBurn – Cape Town, SA
Friends
Albrecht Meixner – WISP Kollektiv – Kunst- und Gewerbehof HP7 – Maria José Landeta – Atelier Polza – Nicolas Astorga – Alice Monvaillier – Margret Aurin – Grégoire Pignède – Judith Meister – Samuli Salonen – Jarno Burger – Tanja Busking – Post Organic Bauplan – whitebox dresden – Wert Kollektiv – Dean Wallflower – Vomensbar – Kontrapunkt – Traumburg – Society for illegal aesthetic
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