n-polytope - Berlin version 2014

n-polytope is a spectacular light and sound environment combining cutting edge lighting, lasers, sound, sensing and artificial intelligence software technologies inspired by composer Iannis Xenakis's radical 1960s-1970s works named "Polytopes" (from the Greek poly, many and topos, space). The installation is steered through a sensor network utilizing cutting edge machine learning algorithms which learns different rhythmic and temporal patterns produced by the light and sound and helps in generating a totalizing, visceral composition that self organizes in time. 150 10 Watt LED's and many tiny speakers are suspended through the space on a single ruled surface constructed of thin aircraft cable, creating a walk-through performance environment which continually swings between order and disorder, akin to Xenakis's original fascination with the behaviors of natural systems.

Originally premiered in the summer of 2012 at the LABoral Centro for Art, the installation went on to win honorable mentions in the VIDA 13 Art and Artificial Life prize in 2012 and in the Prix Ars Electronica Hybrid Arts category in 2013. Now the installation is being reworked for two new sites: The Buckminster Fuller Dome at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhine Germany as part of a collaboration between Vitra and the Haus für Elektronsche Künste Basel; and the immense swimming pool arena of the Stattbad Wedding in Berlin as part of the program for CTM 2014.

Production of n-polytope is supported by LABoral, LabXmodal (Montréal), FCC (Fomento de Construcciones  Contratas), Fonds de recherche du Québec-Société et culture (FQRSC), Canada; Hexagram Concordia, Canada; Schlaich Bergermann & Partner, Germany, the Québec and Canadian consulates (Berlin) and STEIM.