Four days of audiovisual experimentation, improvised encounters and creative chaos. From October 22–25, the 27th edition of LPM – Live Performers Meeting brought artists from around the world to Rome’s Media Art Museum (MAM) and Brancaleone. Representing das Shining, Timo Dufner and Tschänz contributed three distinct audiovisual performances in the new immersive room.
With KLONK, timodufner explored generative minimalism, polyrhythmic structures and glitch aesthetics. Electronic sounds, algorithms and real-time visuals formed an evolving audiovisual system somewhere between composition, improvisation and controlled accidents.
For In trouble times, some new shapes could emerge from the ruins, timodufner joined forces with Katia Vonna Beltran. Analogue synthesis met experimental low-tech live cinema, transforming found objects, recycled materials and shifting electronic textures into an improvised dialogue between sound and image.
Meanwhile, Tschänz and robinrabauke presented From the Dunja, exploring techno as a driving force for artificial life. An audio-reactive Physarum simulation transformed musical structures into evolving organic patterns, blurring the boundaries between biological behaviour, mathematics and audiovisual art.
But LPM was never just about the scheduled performances.
Beyond our own contributions, we became involved in several other projects. Tschänz, in particular, spent considerable time supporting fellow artists with technical challenges, while timodufner stepped in musically when scheduled performers were unable to appear.
These spontaneous collaborations captured what makes LPM special: a community where knowledge, equipment and creativity are shared, where unexpected situations become opportunities, and where experimentation continues well beyond the official programme.
We came with three performances and left with considerably more experiences, connections and inspiration.
Thanks to the LPM team and everyone who shared their ideas, sounds, images and time with us. See you next time!
This summer, das Shining had the pleasure of bringing You Are the Line to the Nerdwald at Garbicz Festival 2026 — a wonderfully strange little corner of the festival dedicated to interactive art, light, sound, experiments and things that are sometimes difficult to explain before you experience them.
And honestly, it is difficult to imagine a better habitat for this piece.
You Are the Line turns the people in front of it into the artwork itself. A camera captures the contours of moving bodies in real time, while three laser projectors translate these outlines into large drawings of light. There is no predefined choreography and no finished image: every movement changes the composition. The audience becomes performer, drawing and data at the same time.
In the middle of the Nerdwald, surrounded by trees, strange machines, installations and people drifting through the night, the work developed a life of its own. Sometimes people discovered their outlines almost accidentally; sometimes they immediately started experimenting — stretching, dancing, merging with others or trying to confuse the system. That moment when someone realizes “wait, that’s me” is still one of my favourite parts of showing this installation.
It is also exactly what interests us about You Are the Line: the border between observer and performer disappears. Technology is present, but it is not really the protagonist. The body is. The machine simply watches, translates and returns movement to the space as light.
The work itself reaches surprisingly far back in history. It refers to the ancient story of Dibutades, in which the outline of a shadow becomes the origin of drawing. Here, that simple gesture is translated into a contemporary system of cameras, algorithms and lasers — a continuously changing choreography between body, data, light and space.
A huge thank you to the Nerdwald crew and everyone at Garbicz for inviting us, helping us make this happen and giving experimental work a place inside such a beautiful and wonderfully chaotic environment. And, of course, thank you to everyone who stepped in front of the camera, danced, played, experimented and became a line for a moment.
After showing the installation at Bachstelzen / Fusion earlier this summer, seeing it transform again in a completely different environment was especially exciting. Every location changes the piece — and every crowd teaches us something new about it.
So: more forests, more walls, more architecture, more dancing bodies, please.
You Are the Line is available for festivals, exhibitions, clubs and other spaces where bodies are allowed to become light. If you have a place that might need three lasers and a little bit of controlled visual chaos: get in touch.
See you somewhere between the trees and the machines.
In programming, folding is a process that brings together different elements to create something new, while mapping pairs things in a way that allows for transformation. At the Map&Fold Festival, we take inspiration from these ideas to shape the future of art and culture.
On May 30, Schlachthaus Tübingen will once again transform into a space for audiovisual experimentation, performative boundary shifts, and collective energy. We at das Shining are excited to host Map&Fold Night 2026 – a night where art, technology, performance, and club culture converge to create something entirely new.
Between signal and noise. Between body and code. Between algorithmic precision and intuitive improvisation.
Map&Fold Night explores the intersections of audiovisual art, performance, and electronic music. Fragile structures collide with raw energy, abstract imagery dissolves into sonic landscapes, and perception stretches through hybrid aesthetics.
For one evening, Schlachthaus becomes a laboratory of collective experience. Lines fold into sound, visuals oscillate between abstraction and narration, and time expands within moments of intensity, immersion, and movement.
What begins as a focused performance environment gradually unfolds into something else entirely: an aftershow Tanztee where TIMODUFNER & ROBINRABAUKE take over and carry the energy deep into the night.
Doors: 20:30 Location: Schlachthaus Tübingen Date: May 30, 2026
RENDR Festival: 12 – 13 February 2026 Come for the talks, stay for the experience!
Ignite your imagination with 30+ inspiring speakers, with creatives from the likes of Netflix, Pixar, Walt Disney Studios and Epic Games among others.
Witness creative uses of new technology, explore the gallery of digital art, chow down at the food village or play in the arcade. We want to transport you to the future, and provide you with unforgettable and inspirational nights. Like nothing you have experienced before, our unique combination is guaranteed to provide two nights you can’t miss. www.rendrfestival.com
We were excited to present Slitscan at Rendr Festival in Belfast as part of the New Media Gallery.
Somewhere between the fog-kissed pines and the vibrating basslines of Garbicz 2025, das Shining set up camp. Not just to dance (though of course we did), but to open a temporal rift. We brought Slitscan – our immersive installation – and offered it to the swarm.
Imagine this: time bending into stripes, faces melting into liquid echoes, laughter stretched into ghostly geometry. Slitscan doesn’t capture a moment; it stretches it, twists it, lets it breathe. It’s not a photo – it’s a ripple through time.
Hidden in a shadowy corner of the woods, near enough to hear the call of distant kickdrums, far enough to feel like stepping into another layer of the dream – that’s where Slitscan lived. They stepped into the light, and we split them into time.
We’re back now. Forest dust still clinging to our gear. Hearts full. Minds buzzing. Slitscan lives on – not just in frames and files, but in those fleeting glances it revealed. And Garbicz? It’s not a festival. It’s a memory machine. A lucid dream. A collective hallucination we’re lucky to have joined!
AV Jams are collaborative events where artists from different disciplines come together to explore the intersection of sound and visuals. Unlike traditional concerts or exhibitions, AV Jams are built on improvisation and experimentation. Musicians, visual artists, coders, and performers share a common stage, blending live-generated visuals with electronic soundscapes, field recordings, and experimental music. The result is a collective experience where audio and video are created and transformed in real time, responding to one another and to the space itself.
In February, Berlin hosted one of these unique gatherings, and das Shining took part in shaping the night. Jens Schindel and Timo Dufner — brought their distinctive approach to audiovisual performance, merging algorithmic visuals with immersive sound.
The AV Jam in Berlin highlighted what makes this format so powerful: it is not about perfection, but about exploration. By contributing their practice to this shared environment, das Shining added their voice to a growing community of artists who see technology not only as a tool, but as a medium for collective creation.
Robin Rabauke (modular) & Jens Schindel aka tschnz (visuals)
Painting with machines – Exhibition & Vernissage – „Malen mit Maschinen“ – Four artists from Tübingen exhibit in the Kulturhalle.
From January 20 to February 18, 2023, Joachim Wedekind & the Shining (Timo Dufner, Mathias Schlenker, Jens Schindel) will present paintings and installations that address the role of digital media in the artistic process. All interested parties are cordially invited to the exhibition opening on
Thursday, January 19, 2023, 7 pm, in the Kulturhalle, Nonnengasse 19.
Dagmar Waizenegger, Head of the Department of Art and Culture, will welcome you. Prof. Stephan Schwan, head of the Realistic Representations Working Group at the Tübingen Institute for Knowledge Media, will introduce the exhibition.
The exhibits in this exhibition are based on algorithms and their implementation and representation is tied to technical devices. On this basis, they (almost all) foresee a participation of the recipients in the creation and output of the media elements. There are differences in active or passive participation. The exhibition „Painting with Machines“ thus aims to stimulate reflection on the role of technical tools as well as recipients in the process of creating artistic artifacts.
The collective „das Shining“ is a group of interdisciplinary media and computer experts who studied media informatics together in Tübingen before expanding their expertise in other academic fields. Joachim Wedekind was an instructional technologist and media didactic. As a latecomer and lateral entrant, he now explores – with close reference to early computer art – the role of painting machines.
Event information (German):
Joachim Wedekind & das Shining (Timo Dufner, Mathias Schlenker, Jens Schindel): Malen mit Maschinen 20. Januar bis zum 18. Februar 2023 Mittwoch bis Freitag 16 bis 19 Uhr, Samstag 11 bis 15 Uhr Weitere Veranstaltung: Donnerstag, den 02.02.2023, 18 Uhr: Livedemo „Malen mit dem Roboter“ Kulturhalle Tübingen, Nonnengasse 19 Eintritt frei
Since the start of the Covid-19-related restrictions on the arts and culture scene, we have been hosting weekly streams from the Schlachthaus Tübingen. Here you can find the results in full length and with all the breakdowns. We have also hosted the complete programme as a podcast on iTunes or Hearthis.
The area of the former slaughterhouse in Villingen-Schwenningen has been abandoned for 20 years, but now the site is being transformed for two days into a special field of experimentation: Students from the University of Liechtenstein as well as artists from the surroundings of the State University of Music Trossingen, the Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences and the „Global Forest“ association will literally show parts of the site in a new light under the title „Restoration!“ as part of a Lost Place & Media Art Festival. Various sound and light installations are planned along a course, some of which will involve visitors interactively – the light projections onto the striking water tower will be real highlights. Hess Licht + Form provides the luminaires for the artistic illumination of the buildings. The building materials specialist Sto is supporting the artistic realisation of a large colour cloud, as is the Rombach Merkt craftsman’s workshop.
We will show our installation clone door as part of the course on the site. Tickets and reservations are available here!
In functional programming, fold refers to a family of higher-order functions that analyze a recursive structure through use of a given combining operation, recombine the results of recursively processing its constituent parts, building up a return value. Map represents an associative abstract data type composed of a collection of key, value pairs. This is exactly what is happening with the cultural scene at the very moment. We systematically and methodically change concepts, mix online and offline life and try to offer an optimal solution for events and cultural enjoyment for all participants. We present interactive art, music & design – for visitors and online guests with artists* on site and around the world. This project receives state funding from the „Culture Summer 2020“ program. Monica Vlad (AV live) Alexandra Cárdenas (live coding) Tatsuru Arai (AV live) Nick Rothwell & Shama Rahman (live coding, sitar) Atsushi Tadokoro (AV live coding) Zacharias Fasshauer (Double Bass) Jaume Darbra Fa & Marçal Xirau (flute & guitar with electronics) Mári Mákó (live electronics) Scott Wilson, Konstantinos Vasilakos, Erik Nyström and Tsun Winston Yeung (live electronics)
