A digital drawing series and large-scale media installation developed for ZKM in Karlsruhe — revisiting the Hyperfine Splitting series through contemporary digital tools and architectural projection onto the facade of the Schloss Karlsruhe.
Produced over two decades after the original Hyperfine Splitting studies, the 008 series returns to the foundational concerns of fragmentation, superposition, and incremental variation — but reconstitutes them entirely through digital media. The work culminated in a commission for ZKM’s Schlosslichtspiele 2017, an annual projection festival in Karlsruhe, where the compositions were projected onto the facade of the Schloss Karlsruhe using extremely high-resolution long-throw video projectors.
Jakob’s Ladder
The title references Jakob’s Ladder as a conceptual framework for vertical transition and stratified spatial states. This is expressed through a visual language in which elements unfold upward across the architectural surface, generating a sequence of shifting spatial conditions that resist fixed interpretation.
From Analog to Digital
Revisiting the core principles of the earlier Hyperfine works — fragmentation, superposition, and incremental variation — the project extends these ideas into new studies. What began as analog photographic and drawing studies in the late 1990s is here reconstituted through digital media, where the image becomes an immersive and temporal architectural condition.
ZKM Installation
The drawings in this series served as the basis for a large-scale media installation commissioned for the Schlosslichtspiele 2017, an annual projection festival organized by ZKM | Center for Art and Media. The compositions were projected at architectural scale onto the facade of the Karlsruhe Palace (Schloss Karlsruhe), where the materiality of the building was broken up piece by piece as new digital structures emerged — real shapes of the castle facade interacting with computer-generated lines and models.
