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 The Installation “AI Fractals” aims at building analog neural networks as part of an analog computer in order to compute fractals, strange attractors and other chaotic structures. These generated patterns and structures shall be sonificated and visualised.\\ The Installation “AI Fractals” aims at building analog neural networks as part of an analog computer in order to compute fractals, strange attractors and other chaotic structures. These generated patterns and structures shall be sonificated and visualised.\\
  
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 In 1960 Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term fractals to describe  infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. Prominent examples of these phenomena are his Mandelbrot Set, the Koch snowflake, and the Fibonacci spiral. In the arts, fractals are an important aesthetic composition technique. In the installation “AI Fractals” these fractals were made visible and audible.\\ In 1960 Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term fractals to describe  infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. Prominent examples of these phenomena are his Mandelbrot Set, the Koch snowflake, and the Fibonacci spiral. In the arts, fractals are an important aesthetic composition technique. In the installation “AI Fractals” these fractals were made visible and audible.\\
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 Wolfgang Spahn started to develop in 2015 the analog computer Confetti as a modular system in order to achieve a flexible system that performs all kind of computations and operations on base of electrical voltage. Confetti Neurons are special modules to implement an analog artificial neural network into the multi-connect system of the Confetti. Thus analog neural networks can solve very complex operations, such as calculating Fractals and Strange Attractors and at the same time these neurons are especially designed to synthesize sound, too.\\ Wolfgang Spahn started to develop in 2015 the analog computer Confetti as a modular system in order to achieve a flexible system that performs all kind of computations and operations on base of electrical voltage. Confetti Neurons are special modules to implement an analog artificial neural network into the multi-connect system of the Confetti. Thus analog neural networks can solve very complex operations, such as calculating Fractals and Strange Attractors and at the same time these neurons are especially designed to synthesize sound, too.\\
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 The installation merges audio and visuals into synchronous experience using technologies in a way they were not meant to be used. Although video projectors were used, the installation seeks to unmap the norms in audio visual presentations: the square form of the video projector is broken with lenses, Sound signals are used directly to draw the visuals, and in a chaotic feedback the video signals are used to generate the sounds as well.\\ The installation merges audio and visuals into synchronous experience using technologies in a way they were not meant to be used. Although video projectors were used, the installation seeks to unmap the norms in audio visual presentations: the square form of the video projector is broken with lenses, Sound signals are used directly to draw the visuals, and in a chaotic feedback the video signals are used to generate the sounds as well.\\



Wolfgang Spahn is a visual & sound artist based in Berlin. His work includes installations, performances of light & sound and miniature-slide-paintings. His art explores the field of analogue and digital media and focuses on both their contradiction and their correlation.
He is faculty member of the Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, Berlin University of the Arts.

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Here is most of the hard- and software the artist developed for his artwork.
DER NULLEFFEKT
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- Analog Computer
- Pop Neuron
- Paper-Duino
- Paper Synthesizer
- Paper Bits
- Raspberry Pi Hats
- VGA Synthesizer
- Sound Boards
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