Back to the roots
Year
2026
Context
LAB BINÆR exhibits with the Neue Münchner Künstlergenossenschaft at the Gemäldegalerie Dachau.
Approach
Using a single raw point cloud dataset, the work translates a digital scan into three distinct artistic interventions—an augmented reality sculpture, an animated video loop, and 3D-printed sand objects—bridging digital technological with traditional painterly abstraction.
Just as the painters of the Dachau artists' colony ventured into the Dachau Moos with canvas, paint, and easel to artistically capture the landscape, LAB BINÆR also went into the Moos, equipped with the technical equivalents of our time: a mobile phone with an integrated camera and a special sensor that makes it possible to generate three-dimensional representations.
The landscape digitally captured by LAB BINÆR can be experienced in the permanent exhibition in three stages:
Authors: Laura Cohen / Jutta Mannes (Original text in German)
BACK TO THE ROOTS – AR
The first is a virtual, walk-in Augmented Reality version in which the data sets generated in the Moos deliberately do not strive for a naturalistic reproduction of the landscape section, but instead revisit the individual brushwork of the painters through their pixelated nature. However, with the difference that this is a technical feature rather than a subjective one.
BACK TO THE ROOTS – IN MOTION
In a second stage, these data sets are animated and subjected to metamorphoses that no longer allow the location to be recognized as such. They playfully re-interpret the structures contained within – In Motion: "The animations consider themselves a contemporary continuation of painterly abstraction and stand in the tradition of experimental digital image worlds." (LAB BINÆR)
BACK TO THE ROOTS – SCULPTURE
The final stage of this process is represented by the 3D prints of these animations, which can be found in the showcase cabinets. Starting from the landscape paintings of the 19th century, they bring the Dachau Moos landscape back into physical space in a completely altered form via the virtual and digital world.