Astral Twin

TouchDesigner Artist

Robotic Audiovisual Installation

installationTouchDesignerRoboticsGenerative Art

Project Video

Overview

Astral Twin is a robotic, audiovisual installation that explores the tension and harmony between human-coded logic and machine-emergent behavior.

Astral Twin invites viewers to witness a new kind of choreography—one where industrial precision meets organic unpredictability, and where meaning arises not from either machine or visual alone, but from the friction and feedback between them.

The LED wall surface acts like an invisible membrane between the mechanical and the virtual. It mediates the physical gestures of the robots and the generative content displayed on the pixels behind it. The screen does not merely respond—it evolves in real-time, translating fluid dynamics, pressure, motion, and rhythm into shifting fields of light, color, and form.

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Setup

Astral Twin at We Belong Here Brooklyn

Astral Twin III @ We Belong Here

Credits

- Creative Direction: Kamil Nawratil

- Media Architecture: Michael Schneider

- Spatial Aesthetics: Zyia Zhang

- Technical Direction: Javier Cruz

- Generative Audio: Javier Cruz

- TouchDesigner Artist: Wenyi Zhang

- Creative Technologist: Matt Ross / Ben Forest

- Computational Design / Robotics: Kiril Bejoulev

- Production: Gilad Dor

- Production Assist: Webb Hunt

- AV: Crossfire

Gallery

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Technical Details

Tools Used
TouchDesigner
Category
installation