>Duo Exhibition with Wagehe Raufi, Kunstraum 34, Stuttgart, 09/01/26 – 22/02/26
>Two-channel live simulation projection. Color, live-generated sound, infinite duration. >Workshop Series

Synchronized Collapse is a two-channel live simulation by Martin Dörr and Wagehe Raufi that takes the janitor’s bag as the starting point for a multimedia installation on order, control, and the maintenance of systems that only appear stable. Its contents are examined as a chaotic archive. Objects become agents of a choreographed disruption: each day, a selected keychain chosen in the entrance space activates the downstairs simulation, generating a unique object–sound aggregation, an autonomous, clattering narrator that moves between two spaces. Without a key, the system remains locked.

> Participatory, artificial life form > Global sleep tracking infrastructure > Live simulation, infinite duration, 2025

In the exhibition Body without Narrator, the digital, planetary entity Latent Entity becomes active within the glass architecture of the saasfee*pavillon in Frankfurt am Main. Latent Entity is an artificial, participatory life form, a collective organism that is linked live to the sleep of people worldwide. It is generated in the Unity video game engine with the help of AI and is active/inactive depending on the sleep activity of the users. Their changing, individual sleep phases and cycles influence the development and behavior of the collective organism in real time.

*from different time zones and countries, including Australia, Chile, Germany, Finland, France, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Macau, and South Korea.

> Object > Ceramic (20 x 18 x 2cm), monitor mount (movable), 2022

Topography of a Thought is a ceramic work that uses fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) imaging techniques to visualize and map brain activity in real time. The work reconstructs the movement of a thought through the three-dimensional structure of the brain, fragmented into individual image layers. Mounted on a movable monitor arm, it becomes an observer itself, looking back into the exhibition space.

> GPS-based Installation, Digital Companion, Theoretical Research, 2020

Maps*Mists*Making Predictions (2020) is a site- and time-specific installation, co-authored by two suns: the physical one moving above us and an algorithmic counterpart running parallel to it. The work transforms with its position on the globe, integrating daylight, GPS coordinates, and environmental conditions into a system in which meteorological and computational processes intertwine. Visitors encounter a continuously recalibrating environment where logics of prediction collide with embodied, atmospheric experience and where non-linear and speculative tools are offered for calibrating and navigating our situated, planetary selves.

> Fat on glass, 2022

window <location> (since 2014) is a series of temporary and site-specific fat interventions on glass surfaces.
The translucent traces refer to everyday physical residues of the skin that remain through interaction at the interface between humans and machines, such as on touchpads and screens. They are time-specific markers of a transition in technological development, in which physical touch is increasingly being replaced by the disappearance of visible interfaces and the incorporation of devices into our bodies and everyday lives as humans draw closer to machines.

window <location> places disturbances at the transparent architectural threshold between inside and outside, thus disrupting the mutual perception of both spaces. Digital-looking scenarios emerge, creating grids and abstract characters that wander through the space depending on the incident light.

> Collaboration, installation, mobile app, platform, 2018

The Compost Cloud initiative is part of a broad-based exploration of participatory composting processes. It addresses composting as a cross-species process that is influenced in its living, hybrid composition by human and, perhaps even more so, non-human actors. The shredding of compostable biomass serves to accelerate the exchange of energy between organisms that interact with each other in diverse and reciprocal ways.

> Gaming Setup, 2h20min live simulation, 2017

The increasing complexity of software is countered by increasingly user-friendly interfaces. Skybox, physics engine, rigid body. The beginning of an increasingly complex depth in which the core of things is constructed. The human user becomes a developer, (simultaneously a creator and an explorer).

> Installation, 2016

The lightning rod, which is actually part of the building’s protection system, is transformed in such a way that lightning could potentially be drawn away from the outside weather and directed into the exhibition space. The opening hours of the exhibition are no longer determined by time, but depend on the forecast weather conditions; the exhibition space becomes a risk landscape, opening up new transformative potential for material and system dependencies. Collections of particles bound in unfired clay wander through the space on contact gel pathways. The dirt from the floor has been rolled onto the wall and seems to stick to it as if statically charged.

> Collaboration, installation, action, environment, 2017

Compost faster – socio-ecological utopia, spatial installation, and action in which the physical body of the participant is embedded in a system of decay and reformation. Organic matter and social mass grow together to form a spatial compost hybrid, whose dynamics are intended to promote processes of exchange and transformation among its actors.

> Installation, 2015

Cytecyte intervenes in the exhibition space in the entrance area of the Zollamt Gallery. The security mechanisms of the four windows have been removed so that they can be rotated 180°. A layer of vegetable fat applied to the window frames alters the transparency and materiality of the glass. The fat, a substance extracted from nature, becomes part of the architectural element and its functional space.

> Participatory, artificial life form > Global sleep tracking infrastructure > Live simulation, infinite duration, 2025

In the exhibition Body without Narrator, the digital, planetary entity Latent Entity becomes active within the glass architecture of the saasfee*pavillon in Frankfurt am Main. Latent Entity is an artificial, participatory life form, a collective organism that is linked live to the sleep of people worldwide. It is generated in the Unity video game engine with the help of AI and is active/inactive depending on the sleep activity of the users. Their changing, individual sleep phases and cycles influence the development and behavior of the collective organism in real time.

*from different time zones and countries, including Australia, Chile, Germany, Finland, France, Hong Kong, India, Kazakhstan, Macau, and South Korea.