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Conceptual systems generating emergent audiovisual environments.

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Form emerges through feedback, system interaction and iterative processes.

Sanja Star develops abstract audiovisual environments in which sound processes, visual dynamics and algorithmic structures interact over time. Beginning from conceptual frameworks, she constructs systems that allow visual form and sonic behaviour to evolve through feedback and controlled emergence. Within these systems, visual structures are both composed and adaptive. The work balances artistic intention with emergent behaviour, creating perceptual environments in which image, sound and temporal dynamics continuously transform.

Star’s practice functions as artistic research centred on feedback systems, generative behaviour and perceptual dynamics.

Through iterative experimentation with frequency, signal processing, visual computation and spatial parameters, she investigates how interactions between technological systems and material conditions produce evolving perceptual structures.

Improvisation operates as a method of system navigation rather than performance. It enables the exploration of compositional thresholds, temporal modulation and emergent behaviour within structured frameworks.

Installations / Collaborative Live Works

The work takes form as audiovisual installations and spatial systems, as well as collaborative live configurations developed with musicians and sound artists. These collaborations operate as interdisciplinary constellations between visual systems and live sound practices.

Within spatial contexts, visual and systemic components interact with live sonic structures, generating dynamic environments in which image, sound and algorithmic processes respond to one another in real time. These temporal configurations extend into situated conditions shaped by system behaviour, live input and embodied elements, including wearable components that integrate the body into the installation framework.

Photos Henry Schulz, Fabian Thueroff

Research & Methodology

Artistic practice

Photos FRANK Orange Ear