About us

„das Shining“ collective is a group of interdisciplinary media and computer experts who studied media informatics together in Tübingen before expanding their expertise in other academic fields.
Timo Dufner is a musician and visual artist, part time working at the music academy Trossingen in the field of music design. Mathias Schlenker is an software engineer with broad knowledge and experience for realizing big software projects. Jens Schindel is a self employed software engineer with focus on AI, computer vision and signal analysis.

The group is always looking for new opportunities to let its creativity run free in a challenging way. So far, they have enhanced theater and opera performances with interactive visuals, given lectures on the use of AI in the creative sector, perform and show live audio-reactive visuals weekly in the club “Schlachthaus” in Tübingen, were responsible for the technical organisation of the GENERATE! Festival for Electronic Arts 2019 and present their live performances and installations at meetings, exhibitions and symposia worldwide