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Galerie der Romantik @pommerscheslandesmuseum
Zugang zur Kapelle, die die Besuchenden in die Welt und Atmosphäre der Romantik einführt.
2025
Mediale Inszenierung: @artcomstudios
Foto: Carlotta Busch
#archdaily #architecture #architecturephotography #museum #scenography
Sound on 🔊 – Santa came early! Our ASMR Christmas card for your ears – and our highlight projects for your eyes: the ART+COM newsletter is out today!
Featured: • A glowing LED portal into the poetic worlds of Caspar David Friedrich • Al beyond "dream worlds" for investigative journalism • An app empowering citizens to engage with heritage preservation
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Happy Holidays from the ART+COM team 🫶
Let’s wrap up the year together with project highlights, cookies, beer, and mulled wine. And Santa might even bring pizza if everyone’s been well behaved.🧑🎄
Julian and Jens from ART+COM will present their two latest projects — appropriately Christmas-themed with spheres and lights. 🎄
And if things weren’t celebratory enough already, CYLVESTER-LAB will officially launch their ALL YOUR AI project.
Talks will be in German.
We’ll also have a short round of lightning talks, so bring your own project!
You’re welcome to join our cozy evening, full of digital fun, good conversations, and of course: cookies!
Location: ART+COM STUDIO KÖLN & CYLVESTER-LAB, Vogelsangerstr. 187 H, 50825 Cologne
Date: Monday, December 8, 2025 Time: 6:00 PM (program starts at 6:30 PM)
💻 We are growing our team: Apply now for Senior Lead Developer!
Are you an experienced leader with expertise in realtime applications? Are you passionate about connecting technology and creativity?
Then, please reach out to us!
What awaits you:
→ Technical lead for international projects for museums and cultural institutions
→ Working with real-time technologies (Unreal Engine, TouchDesigner & more)
→ An interdisciplinary team of designers, developers, and artists
→ Projects experienced by millions of people
German + English skills are a big plus!
Apply via the link in bio.
You’re passionate about interactive experiences and digital art and thrive in creative environments?
We’re looking for a Junior Creative Technologist / Developer to join our team in Berlin or Cologne:
• You’re curious, unafraid to ask questions, and always eager to learn
• For you, development means more than just writing code
• You want to create experiences that truly inspire people
👉 Sound like you? Apply now and join us in creating unique immersive experiences via the link in bio!
We offer:
— your own desk in a bright, spacious workspace
— flexible hours and a competitive salary
— a warm, collaborative atmosphere in a creative team
We look forward to your applications!
How can AI help journalists in investigative research? 📰
At @digitalagentur.berlin ’s Digitalforum 2025, ART+COM research coordinator Ewelina Dobrzalski and Ralf Fricke, Head of R&D at Condat AG, presented the GenKI4Media AI assistant:
ART+COM’s research explores how AI can generate visual demonstrators that make complex topics clearer and more accessible — from 3D reconstructions of investigative stories to visual models for cultural projects: AI turns data into powerful storytelling tools.
GenKI4Media Partners:
Condat
@artcomstudios@3pc_berlin
Fraunhofer Fokus
@dfki_official@dpa_com@dw.deutschewelle
An enormous organic sculpture seems to grow straight out of the ground in Berlin’s @futuriumd , a museum dedicated to the big question: How do we want to live? 🌍
Neo Nature is a so-called aperiodic structure, built from just a few repeating shapes that together generate infinitely varied and complex forms — a principle often occurring in nature. Neo Nature is where the inspiring and beneficial systems in nature meet technological innovation. 🌱
Around the sculpture, interactive displays invite you to explore new ways of living in closer harmony with nature.
Can you guess how many wooden modules make up the entire sculpture?
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Design:
ART+COM
@schielprojekt@vzinssmeister
apfel,hübsch berlin Planning, construction, production, setup:
Art Department Studio Babelsberg
Engineering design, structural planning, production data, AR programming:
ArtEngineering
Client:
Futurium gGmbH
🌃 What if you could redesign the city of tomorrow? (Spoiler alert: you can!)
At the Level Green exhibition by @volkswagen , visitors explore how sustainability measures shape economic growth, social wellbeing, and the future of mobility. Numerous interactive media stations, designed by ART+COM over the past two decades, invite the public to engage with the most pressing sustainability questions.
One example is the Sustainable Urban Development Model: here, guests take on the role of citizens, lawmakers, or companies, testing strategies to make cities more sustainable. Every policy choice — from energy efficiency to smarter mobility — comes to life on the three-dimensional cityscape.
At the end, visitors see how their results compare to a “business-as-usual” scenario, and how collaboration can drive real impact.
🌱 Because building a sustainable future isn’t about watching from the sidelines — it’s about engaging, experimenting, and deciding together.
🚧 What would you change about the city you live in?
From swamp meadow to Berlin Palace: the site of today’s @humboldtforum is among the city’s most symbolic places.
For the exhibition in the old palace’s basement vault, ART+COM staged its layered history through immersive media installations.
Interactive touch interfaces placed alongside archaeological finds and wall fragments recount everyday life in the former palace. On a large interactive screen, visitors uncover the site’s heritage layer by layer: with simple gestures they stir up digital particles, revealing objects and places that dissolve back into dust moments later.
This playful, tactile production opens sensory access to history and invites reflection on the site’s continual transformation.
Sound by @theklongs
The kinetic sculpture “Pendulum” moves weightlessly through space. In the entrance hall of Casa V, a private residence in Mexico City, twenty circular pendulums create a continuous, poetic choreography of abstract forms.
At times, their movements join in a collective rhythm, at others, they float in quiet autonomy, as their positions shift between dense, tightly knit clusters and expansive, open constellations.
The disks’ reflective copper finish engage the sculpture with the space it’s in, echoing the architecture, the artworks on display as well as the viewers themselves.
By night, directional lighting adds another layer to the installation, casting dynamic shadows and reflections.
