OPEN CALL – Mechanical Forests 🌲
Residency & Sound Installation · St. Georgen, Black Forest
🗓 Mar–Jun 2026 (3–4 mo) · Deadline 19 Oct 2025
✨ €15k honorarium · free live/work space · €10k production budget · premieres @Donaueschinger Musiktage+Festival Musica Strasbourg 🔗 www.swr.li/mechanicalforests

Rīdeō, ergo sum – I laugh, therefore I am (Preungesheim Edition)
Memory game with custom-built sound modules | various electronics, recordings of residents’ laughter | 100 x 100 cm

More Infos: www.olsen.studio/rideo-ergo-s...

#soundart
#interactiveart
#communityvoices
#preungesheim
#memorygame

Invitation to the opening of my exhibition "Rīdeō, ergo sum – I laugh, therefore I am"

📍 FlieKü / Crespo Foundation, Frankfurt am Main
🗓️ Fri 25 April, 5 PM (Opening)
🖼️ On view: 26–27 April, 2–5 PM

Details & address on the invite. Come by if you’re around — would love to see you there!

Apollo 11 (Edition Unread Package Insert), 2019

50 yrs after the moon-landing, a machine learning algorithm devised five unique ways to assemble the Apollo 11 scale model—each defying the original manual & venturing into dimensions previously untouched by human hands

#Apollo11 #machinelearning #ai

Digital Schlaraffen Land (cybernetic ball pit release)

2024 | 50.000 modified plastic dice, black box | 350 x 350 x 30 cm

More Infos: www.olsen.studio/digitale-sch...

The Black Forest, famed for its handcrafted cuckoo clocks, has been a hub of clockmaking since the 18th century. These iconic clocks are globally recognized & widely exported. With recent technological advances, clocks have transitioned into the digital realm, forming the foundation for this project