Free Projects
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![preview image of #Breitscheidplatz](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/freydank-erik/2016-ws-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Erik Freydank
Breitscheidplatz
![preview image of 0..1](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/brodbeck-frederic/0-1/1379704786-1633375697/2021-03-21_22-50-19.png)
Frederic Brodbeck
0..1
![preview image of Absconding](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/ying-chen/absconding/3327667232-1711569353/img_7994ok-pre.jpg)
Ying Chen
Absconding
![preview image of Analoge Brücke](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/raab-lorenz/2012-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Lorenz Raab
Analoge Brücke
![preview image of Artificial Appetizer](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/honda-akitoshi/2008-ss-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Akitoshi Honda
Artificial Appetizer
![preview image of Assemblaggio N1](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/storelli-elisa/2010-ss-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Elisa Storelli
Assemblaggio N1
![preview image of A Thousand Seeds or the Right to Becoming](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/fuehrer-julius/a-thousand-seeds-or-the-right-to-becoming/1425435579-1635012432/a_thousand_seeds_or_the_right_to_becoming_thumbnail.jpg)
Julius Fuehrer
A Thousand Seeds or the Right to Becoming
![preview image of autoantibody.3 – Destruction of Self](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/schilcher-merani/0021-free-3/3155915405-1619637829/img_7505-c-copy.jpg)
Merani Schilcher
autoantibody.3 – Destruction of Self
![preview image of Bericht über R.](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/gmeiner-frederic/2008-ss-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Frederic Gmeiner
Bericht über R.
![preview image of Bioinformatics: Nature’s superiority over binary computing](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/hahn-alexander/bioinformatics/713245641-1658393660/preview.png)
Alexander Hahn
Bioinformatics: Nature’s superiority over binary computing
![preview image of Blickskulpturen / Gaze Sculptures](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/schmid-susa/2011-ss-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Susa Schmid
Blickskulpturen / Gaze Sculptures
![preview image of Blooming Hologram](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/hartenstein-bill/00xx-free-1/2781919702-1682328040/front_project_imagesquare.jpg)
Bill Hartenstein
Blooming Hologram
![preview image of Bruto](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/gola-bruno/2020-free/2728805418-1607355612/img_20201017_150455.jpg)
Bruno Gola
Bruto
![preview image of Bubbles](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/ying-chen/bubbles/550528898-1711493720/bubblepre.jpg)
Ying Chen
Bubbles
![preview image of Clock Choc](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/horntrich-tim/2009-ws-t-1/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Tim Horntrich
Clock Choc
![preview image of Coffee And Kitty](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/hsiao-li-chi/2019-ws/3345541550-1587828571/202001-square.png)
Hsiao Li-Chi
Coffee And Kitty
![preview image of convincing ideas](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/reitenbach-david/00xx-free/2695025421-1595170406/post-it_zeichenflache-1.png)
David Reitenbach
convincing ideas
![preview image of default to public](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/wunderling-jens/2008-ws-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Jens Wunderling
default to public
![preview image of Der Kopist](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/engelmann-constantin/2008-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Constantin Engelmann
Der Kopist
![preview image of Design as Restriction / Restriction as Design](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/blos-valerian/2014-ws-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Valerian Blos
Design as Restriction / Restriction as Design
![preview image of Diaries of Alvin Fredriksøn](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/gutjahr-sven/2013-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Sven Gutjahr
Diaries of Alvin Fredriksøn
![preview image of DropingNews](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/horntrich-tim/2009-ws-t-2/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Tim Horntrich
DropingNews
![preview image of Ephememorion](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/woern-robin/ephememorion/1907946295-1649861130/ephe_0019_edit-square.jpg)
Robin Woern
Ephememorion
![preview image of Footprint²¹³](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/helfer-orlando/footprint/1876548260-1701777857/cover_small.jpg)
Orlando Helfer Rabaça
Footprint²¹³
![preview image of GOTCHA](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/netzer-julian/00xx-free-1/4096650209-1633377548/bild02.jpeg)
Julian Netzer
GOTCHA
![preview image of Graphic Design](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/ereinhardt/graphic-design/3149647851-1672404814/pb_grafik.jpg)
Erik Anton Reinhardt
Graphic Design
![preview image of Hacking Memorials](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/sunder-plassmann-stephan/2015-ss-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Stephan Sunder-Plassmann
Hacking Memorials
![preview image of Hear the grass growing](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/kim-luge-martin/2008-ss-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Martin Kim Luge
Hear the grass growing
![preview image of How It Was(n't)](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/hoehn-christopher/00xx-free-1/2069687541-1633339510/hoehn_how_it_wasnt_2020_thumb.jpg)
Christopher Hoehn
How It Was(n't)
![preview image of ICSY TK 5000](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/horntrich-tim/2008-ss-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Tim Horntrich
ICSY TK 5000
![preview image of Image Fulgurator](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/von-bismarck-julius/2007-ss-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Julius von Bismarck
Image Fulgurator
![preview image of Jammer Horn](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/sengewald-willy/2008-ws-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Willy Sengewald
Jammer Horn
![preview image of Living with Matter](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/aisslinger-florentin/living-with-matter/4055850973-1709752169/lwm_06.jpg)
Florentin Aisslinger
Living with Matter
![preview image of Living with Things](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/hoinkis-monika/2004-ws-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Monika Hoinkis
Living with Things
![preview image of lovesmenot](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/wolf-sebastian/2019-ss/3402147950-1573467412/sebastian_lovesmenot_square.jpg)
Sebastian Wolf
lovesmenot
![preview image of Machines At Work](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/schmelas-andreas/2011-ss-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Andreas Schmelas
Machines At Work
![preview image of Make Me A Weapon – Destruction of Context](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/schilcher-merani/0021-free-1/988347762-1619636680/img_7153-copy.jpg)
Merani Schilcher
Make Me A Weapon – Destruction of Context
![preview image of Meadow of carnivore plants](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/rosenstock-julia/meadow-of-carnivore-plants/2523872033-1633333653/meadow-of-carnivore-plants-julia-rosenstock2.jpg)
Julia Rosenstock
Meadow of carnivore plants
![preview image of Memory Shapes](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/gmeiner-frederic/2007-ss-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Frederic Gmeiner
Memory Shapes
![preview image of Mephista – Destruction of Other](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/schilcher-merani/0021-free-2/244341901-1619637698/img_7443-c-copy.jpg)
Merani Schilcher
Mephista – Destruction of Other
![preview image of My queer body, my ownership](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/ying-chen/my-queer-body-my-ownership/2675458132-1711501932/pre.jpg)
Ying Chen
My queer body, my ownership
![preview image of möve](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/schmidt-piet/00xx-free/4223124923-1633292103/moeve_1_square.png)
Piet Schmidt
möve
![preview image of Nahweh: the Unreachable](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/tsai-fang/2023-ws/2705908037-1697793943/nahweh-s.jpg)
Fang Tsai
Nahweh: the Unreachable
![preview image of Objects of Research](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/nicenboim-iohanna/2015-ss-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Nicenboim Iohanna
Objects of Research
![preview image of Palio](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/hartenstein-bill/00xx-free-2/4130081742-1682329093/un-cavallo-da-siena_lowres_square.jpg)
Bill Hartenstein
Palio
![preview image of pendel 1](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/aubry-vinzenz/pendel-1/1815137117-1597178389/pendulum-square.jpg)
Vinzenz Aubry
pendel 1
![preview image of Phantom Limb](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/hye-joo-jun/2014-ss-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Hye Joo Jun
Phantom Limb
![preview image of Pulse](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/kison-markus/2008-ss-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Markus Kison
Pulse
![preview image of Resource forecast](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/kottmeier-kilian/2013-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Kilian Kottmeier
Resource forecast
![preview image of Subordination/Unterordnung](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/worseck-felix/2013-ws-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Felix Worseck
Subordination/Unterordnung
![preview image of Synthetic Flurry](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/brodbeck-frederic/0019-free-1/4017314480-1583165215/preview.jpg)
Frederic Brodbeck
Synthetic Flurry
![preview image of Tagebilder](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/sunder-plassmann-stephan/2011-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Stephan Sunder-Plassmann
Tagebilder
![preview image of The Beauty of Oppositions](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/sunder-plassmann-stephan/2013-ws-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Stephan Sunder-Plassmann
The Beauty of Oppositions
![preview image of The Space Beyond Me](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/schmelas-andreas/2009-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Andreas Schmelas
The Space Beyond Me
![preview image of The Space Beyond Me](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/von-bismarck-julius/2009-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Julius von Bismarck
The Space Beyond Me
![preview image of The Visible Invisible](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/schmelas-andreas/2010-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Andreas Schmelas
The Visible Invisible
![preview image of thing <ser. no.>](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/kolling-paul/2017-ss-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Paul Kolling
thing <ser. no.>
![preview image of This machine will not switch herself off](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/storelli-elisa/2009-ws-f/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Elisa Storelli
This machine will not switch herself off
![preview image of Titan](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/loehr-david/2008-ss-t/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
David Löhr
Titan
![preview image of Unstable Trajectories](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/soder-niklas/0020-free/2637494483-1633339143/thumb.png)
Niklas Söder
Unstable Trajectories
![preview image of Wall of Distribution](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/richter-tilman/2013-ws-t-2/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Tilman Richter
Wall of Distribution
![preview image of Wall of Support](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/richter-tilman/2013-ws-t-1/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Tilman Richter
Wall of Support
![preview image of Wall of Tendencies](https://newmedia.udk-berlin.de/media/pages/students/richter-tilman/2013-ws-t-3/1489297834-1573467412/thumb.jpg)
Tilman Richter
Wall of Tendencies
Andi Rueckel
木
Andi Rueckel
木 木
Andi Rueckel
木 木 木
Niklas Söder — Unstable Trajectories
Free Projects
„Can the fundamental nature of matter really be lawlessness? Can the stability and order of the world be but a temporary dynamic equilibrium achieved in a corner of the universe, a short-lived eddy in a chaotic current?“
Liu, Cixin — „The Three Body Problem“
By recording and interpreting the movements of celestial bodies, humans recognized the patterns of their environment already thousands of years ago. They found themselves surrounded by repetitive systems that directly and indirectly influenced their perception of time and their life on earth. By orienting itself to the cyclical environment, a society was able to organize and stabilize itself. The ability to perform calendrical calculations represented an essential building block towards the cultural endeavor to control nature. Knowledge of the cyclical processes in the cosmos and their calculation was manifested in myths, rituals, and ritual objects, and thus transmitted to descendants through physical practices and aesthetic symbols. Rites of passage (turn of the year) and seasonal festivals bear witness to this "ritualization" of our cyclical environment to this day.
Archaeological finds prove that knowledge of the comic order was documented as early as the Stone Age. These artifacts are early signs of an ongoing human attempt to describe the environment and the processes occurring within it with increasing precision. Over generations, new interpretations and computational methods were developed, and sciences such as astronomy, mathematics, and physics emerged. This development reached a peak through the research of scientists such as Isaac Newton, who provided people with ways to perform precise mathematical calculations of physical processes.
More recent discoveries and theories from the 20th century, however, suggest a different picture. While the predictability of processes, such as planetary motions in the solar system, is possible for smaller periods of time, sooner or later every system is subject to chaotic events and thus becomes unpredictable. So what if our seemingly cyclical system is actually chaotic? How can ritual and ritual object be designed if the function of transmitting knowledge has to give way to constantly changing information?
The work "Unstable Trajectories" proposes a possible answer to these questions. The installation plays with the idea of a chaotic environment in which the stability of a system is affected by interactions with its surroundings. In a fictional ritual, this interaction between object and environment gives rise to an interplay of cyclical and chaotic oscillations, which are captured in an ephemeral record and thus become information of an unpredictable environment.
Credits
Concept and Production: Niklas Söder
Metalwork Support: Paul Kolling
Documentation Sound: Fin Glaeser
Documentation Camera: Paul James Hay
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