Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto

UNI-HYbr:ID

Live Performance 60'
In partnership with the Schubertiade RTS Espace 2

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RAY COLLECTOR, 2022-2023

Variable dimensions

In 2022, ten packages were sent from Berlin to 10 addresses around the world - always on an island, to a fictitious name, Mr. Nemo, after the captain of the Nautilus in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The consignments were to be returned to the sender, Carsten Nicolai, at his own expense. Each package contained: 1 cassette of unrecorded magnetic tape, 1 Ilford 3200 delta black & white film, ISO 1000, and 1 Kodak color negative film, ISO 800. On their return, these media were developed and digitized, and the traces left by their exposure to various electromagnetic waves and radiation during the journey were made visible, audible.

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Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto

Born 1965
Based in Berlin

Carsten Nicolai, renowned visual artist and electronic musician, explores scientific systems, mathematical patterns, error, chance and self-organization, constantly blurring the boundaries between artistic disciplines.

His work has been shown at documenta X and the Venice Biennale (49th and 50th editions), as well as in numerous major exhibitions in Germany and abroad (Schirn Kunsthalle, Neue Nationalgalerie, Haus der Kunst, etc.).

Under the name Alva Noto, he is a central figure on the contemporary electronic music scene, with performances at the Centre Pompidou, the Tate Modern and the Guggenheim Museum. He collaborates with artists such as Ryūichi Sakamoto, with whom he composed the score for the Golden Globe, BAFTA and Grammy-nominated film The Revenant. Winner of numerous awards, including the Prix Ars Electronica and the Zurich Art Prize, Nicolai has been a professor at the University of Fine Arts Dresden since 2015, specializing in digital and temporal media.