Astral Twin
Generative visuals driven by live industrial-robot motion on a large LED wall. Six editions, 2023–2026; on the later ones I also authored and ran the motion.
Astral Twin is a robotic audiovisual installation about the tension and harmony between human-coded logic and machine-emergent behaviour. The LED wall behind the arms works as a membrane between the mechanical and the virtual, turning their motion into shifting light, colour and form. Six editions, 2023–2026.
Six editions
| Editions | Visuals | Robots | My role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 Franklin (private), OFFF Montreal, We Belong Here · Brooklyn | GLSL fluid | KUKA, then UFactory 850 (UF850) — motion authored elsewhere, recorded off the arm | generative visuals |
| OFFF Barcelona, Vibecon, Sónar+D | POPs + GLSL particles | 2–4× UF850 — Motion-Core | visuals (with Pasakorn Nontananadh) + robot pipeline |
From the first edition the arm drove the fluid: its motion set emission, injection and where the brush sat on the canvas.
What changed across the six is which end of that link I owned. On the first three the motion arrived already finished: authored in Grasshopper on the KUKA, then recorded on the arms themselves and looped. By the particle editions I had built Motion-Core and was authoring, validating and commanding the motion as well as reading it.
- Role
- Creative technologist. Generative visuals across all six editions (the particle editions with Pasakorn Nontananadh), and the robot-motion pipeline on the particle editions
- Built with
- TouchDesigner · GLSL · POPs · Motion-Core · large-format LED
- Shown at
- 12 Franklin · OFFF Montreal · We Belong Here, Brooklyn · OFFF Barcelona · Vibecon · Sónar+D
- Studio
- Volvox Labs
- Team
- Creative direction, Kamil Nawratil · Media architecture, Michael Schneider · Spatial aesthetics, Zyia Zhang · Technical direction and generative audio, Javier Cruz · Creative technology, with Matt Ross and Ben Forest · Computational design and robotics, Kiril Bejoulev · Production, Gilad Dor · Production assist and video edit, Webb Hunt · AV, Crossfire
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