Funkstörung is an electronic music project founded by Michael Fakesch and Chris De Luca in 1994. They have now teamed up with the creators of the Lightstorm project to create an unique audiovisual performance.
Lightstorm—two meters high, three meters in diameter, and spinning at 35 kph—is an oversized, rotating tube with LED strips embedded all around the outside. While the cylinder is in motion, the installation visitors’ visual faculties interpret the rapidly blinking LEDs as a drawing in midair. Impressions of pulsating images in space occur on the retina.
The artists mean *Lightstorm* to symbolize the individual amid the maelstrom of big-city life. The 21st-century cityscape is characterized by the proliferation of light sources. The pervasive illumination engulfs people; it suffuses them and their lives; its pulses impart the beat to their personal rhythm. The individual is trapped within a tornado of sensory overload and has to go with the rhythm of the city lights to avoid drowning in them.
Lightstorm: Katharina Gruber (AT), Laurin Döpfner (AT), Gregor Woschitz (AT),
University of Arts Linz (AT), Time-Based and Interactive Media Course
Funkstörung: Michael Fakesch (DE) and Chris De Luca (DE)
