MORITZ RESL

Monolith is a permanent 4.10 meters tall visual installation in the entrance hall of a recently-built energy-efficient skyscraper next to Vienna’s Donaukanal river. With the use of sensors, the building’s energy consumption and production is measured throughout the year. Based on that gathered data, Monolith is an animated, generative visual artwork. In different chapters, data used for cooling, heating as well as photovoltaic energy and electricity consumption is fed into different algorithms for generating visual output. The main focus is to compare between day and night, winter and summer — and warm and cold cycles. Potentially endless variations of visual output is generated, depending on the current energy within the building. Vienna, 2015 Design, Development: Moritz Resl and Paul Sommersguter Commissioned by checkpointmedia for Raiffeisenhaus Wien GesbR. More information: https://process.studio/works/monolith/ #installation #art #design #generativedesign #vienna #paulsommersguter #moritzresl

The book VOIDOPOLIS was released worldwide in August 2023! A first-of-its-kind augmented reality book from MIT Press Leonardo Series @mitpress @leonardoisast at Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse By Kat Mustatea @kmustatea Design, Algorithmic decay by Process @process.studio App by DOTDOT Studio @dotdotstudio A hybrid digital artistic and literary project in the form of an augmented reality book, the story retells Dante’s Inferno as if it were set in pandemic-ravaged New York City. Every element of the book is crafted to evoke loss: the stock photographs of NYC with humans wiped away, the lipogrammatic #AI generative text that is missing the letter e. The book’s pages are garbled and can only be deciphered through an accompanying #AR app—but over a period of months, these digital components decay the way memory might, leaving behind foggy imagery and half-remembered bits of language. It’s available now here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048262/voidopolis/ #voidopolis #editorialdesign #generativedesign #typography #processstudio #studioprocess

finding form, drawing with light. testing laser projections for london design biennale 2021. — #laser #light #test #path #curve #processstudio #moritzresl #martingroedl #studioprocess #londondesignbiennale #londondesignbiennale2021 #ldb21 #ldb #tokensforclimatecare #installation #exhibition #symbols #tokens #design #generativedesign #art #vienna

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For the new World Design Capital 2026, at Media Apparat we built an immersive exhibition. A bridge between Frankfurt’s rich history and bold future. A project defined by extraordinary turnaround times, an outstanding team, and a true multimedia experience—diverse and dynamic, just like the city itself. This is one of 24 (multimedia, partly interactive) stations next to a ~10-meter-high, immersive room with 270° projection spanning over 1,200 m². The three-phase transmission from Lauffen to Frankfurt was the first transmission of electrical energy using high-voltage three-phase current. It took place on Tuesday, August 25, 1891, at 12 noon on the occasion of the International Electrotechnical Exhibition in Frankfurt am Main, where it was presented as the Lauffen–Frankfurt power transmission. The first test run had already succeeded the day before. Here’s some behind-the-scenes material exploring the initial tool and the final result in the exhibition. ––– Frankfurt: City of WOW! Lead Agencies: @nordisk_creative_agency @satisandfy_eu Immersive Media & Exhibition Design: @media_apparat #WDC2026 #WorldDesignCapital #Exhibition #creativedirection @wdc2026

When we initially started working on our recently-opened exhibition ‘Frankfurt: City of WOW!’, to no surprise, I was not fully aware of what the city had to offer and how rich and diverse its history actually is. One of the well-known facts about Frankfurt is, that it was home to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. Next to his famous writing he was highly interested in the theory of colors and how they are perceived by humans. He conducted many experiments and published his own book called ‘Theory of Colours’ where he formulated arguments against Newton’s findings. His “Kantenspektrum” (edge spectrum) is a phenomenon that appears at the boundary between light and dark. When light passes through a prism near such an edge, colored fringes emerge—yellow/red on the light side and blue/violet on the dark side. Goethe argued that colors arise from the interaction of light and darkness at boundaries, rather than from white light splitting into component wavelengths as proposed by Isaac Newton. In his view, the full spectrum appears when these opposing edge spectra overlap, emphasizing perception and contrast rather than purely physical decomposition of light. One exhibit, a little generative, real-time tool explores said phenomenon. Visitors can explore edges separating dark and light and all colors that emerge at the borders by looking through small polfilters mounted as part of the installation. Here’s some behind-the-scenes material exploring the tool. This is one of 24 (multimedia, partly interactive) stations next to a ~10-meter-high, immersive room with 270° projection spanning over 1,200 m². For the new World Design Capital 2026, we built an immersive exhibition. A bridge between Frankfurt’s rich history and bold future. A project defined by extraordinary turnaround times, an outstanding team, and a truly multimedia experience—diverse and dynamic, just like the city itself. –– Frankfurt: City of WOW! Lead Agencies: @nordisk_creative_agency @satisandfy_eu Immersive Media & Exhibition Design: @media_apparat #WDC2026 #WorldDesignCapital #Exhibition #creativedirection

How do you capture a city's heartbeat? For the new World Design Capital 2026 exhibition, at @media_apparat we built an immersive bridge between Frankfurt’s rich history and its bold future. A project defined by extraordinary turnaround times, an outstanding team, and a truly multimedia experience—diverse and dynamic, just like the city itself. Huge thanks to the entire Media Apparat team and everyone involved, alongside Nordisk and Satis&Fy for initiating the project in the first place. See you in Frankfurt! ✨ ––– Frankfurt: City of WOW! In einer Rekordzeit von nur drei Monaten entstand ein neues immersives Erlebnis in internationaler Zusammenarbeit von Nordisk, satis&fy und Media Apparat. Ort des Geschehens ist das ehemalige Aktenlager der Dresdner Bank in Frankfurt am Main. Auf über 1200 Quadratmetern Gesamtfläche werden 800 Jahre Geschichte und Entwicklung der Stadt anschaulich erlebbar. 24 multimediale Stationen laden mit zahlreichen interaktiven und explorativen Elementen Besucher:innen dazu ein, tief in die Stadtgeschichte einzutauchen und einen Blick in die Zukunft zu wagen. Das Herzstück der Inszenierung bildet eine rund zehn Meter hohe 270°-Projektion mit mehr als 1.200 Quadratmetern Fläche und einer Lichtleistung von etwa 160.000 ANSI-Lumen. Lernen, Erleben und Unterhaltung greifen bewusst ineinander und verschmelzen zu einer völlig neuen Form des Storytellings. Media Apparat war bei diesem Projekt im Rahmen der World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain für das Konzept, die Inszenierung und Produktion der Inhalte des immersiven Raums und der interaktiven Stationen verantwortlich! Ein herzliches Danke an Nordisk Büro, satis&fy, die Messe Frankfurt und die Stadt Frankfurt für die großartige Zusammenarbeit und das Vertrauen! Lead Agenturen: @nordisk_creative_agency / @satisandfy_eu Immersive Media & Exhibition Design: @media_apparat Mit Unterstützung der @messefrankfurt der Stadt @frankfurtammain #WDC2026 #WorldDesignCapital #Frankfurt #ImmersiveExperience #MultimediaDesign #Exhibition #MediaApparat #CityofWOW #CityofWOWFrankfurt #creativedirection @wdc2026

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Average Font, 2011 This typographic experiment shows what a typeface would look like if it consisted of all fonts installed on my system. Every character from a to z is drawn using every single font with a low opacity. In total there are 904 typefaces in my library. I didn't exclude the ugly ones. The video shows the generation of one character. In 2015, the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels licensed the Average Font as key visual for the exhibition called EXPO 2050 that took place simultaneously in Brussels and the Louvre Museum in Paris. Moritz Resl, September 2011 #averagefont

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Very happy to share that I've joined the team at Media Apparat as Creative Director. Looking forward to projects at the intersections of Design, Art and Digital Technology with a great team!