Benjamin Samuel Koren
Benjamin Samuel Koren (*1981 in Frankfurt[1]) is a German architect,[2] computer scientist,[2] computer artist[3] and musician.[2] He leads the company ONE TO ONE[4] and works as a computer artist under the artist name Benjamin Samuel.[3] He lives and works in New York.[5]
Biography[edit]
Koren grew up in Frankfurt and Miami.[6] He studied architecture, film and music[6] at the University of Miami,[6] New York University,[3] the University of Applied Arts Vienna[3] and the Architectural Association School of Architecture[6] in London. In 2005 he received a Bronze Medal Commendation[7] for his student project Harmonic Proportion in Amorphic Form: A Music Pavilion in Hyde Park, London at the President's Medal Awards of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He worked for the Advanced Geometry Unit of the British engineering office ARUP[6] in London and for the architectural office Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and Hamburg.[6]
Computer Art[edit]
He creates new media and computer art under the nom de plume 'Benjamin Samuel'.[8] He creates visual works, sculptures and light installations.[3]
Arrays of Light[edit]
His series of light installations entitled Arrays of Light deal with pairs of works of cultural and contemporary historical significance by compressing tens of thousands of data, notes, still images, literary texts, comic strips or stock market quotes by means of computer algorithms. In 2011, the German Museum of Film acquired his two light installations Hitchcock30 and Kubrick13+9+10, a compression of 283,500 film stills from 30 films by Alfred Hitchcock and 107,445 film stills from 13 films of Stanley Kubrick.[9] In his two works Goldberg Variationen30+2 and Diabelli Variationen33 he translated the entire musical notes of the two variation pieces, 75.730 lines of MIDI code of Johann Sebastian Bach's work and 67,770 lines of Ludwig van Beethoven's work.[10] In the two works Deutscher Aktienindex30+1 and Dow Jones Industrial30+1, he translated the stock exchange prices of German and US stock markets in the crisis year 2008.[11] In the two works Shakespeare36 and Poe69½ he translated the entire text of the first folio edition of William Shakespeare's works as well as all the complete tales of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe.[12] In 2015, his solo exhibition Arrays of Light took place at the Heussenstamm Gallery in Frankfurt, which is run by the Heussenstamm Foundation.[3] In the year 2015, a catalog of works on this series was published by DISTANZ Publishers Berlin.[1]
Harmonics[edit]
His series of sculptures Harmonics is based on a software program called "Formensynthesizer", and on geometric principles creates geometric bodies in space. The shapes of the sculptures are based on oscillation ratios based on the Fibonacci sequence and the golden section.[13]
Publications[edit]
"Arrays of Light" catalog of works, DISTANZ Publishers Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95476-126-5
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 DISTANZ Verlag: Benjamin Samuel. Search this book on
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ten-thousand notes going under the skin" (PDF). 9 April 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Exhibition Opening: Arrays of Light, Benjamin Samuel" (PDF). Aug 21, 2015. Retrieved Jan 12, 2015.
- ↑ "One to One Celebrates Fifth Anniversary" (PDF). Jan 31, 2014. Retrieved Jan 12, 2017.
- ↑ "Klang-Architekt Benjamin Koren - Wie klingt die "weiße Haut"?". Deutschlandradio Kultur (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 "Expert Lecture: Benjamin Koren | Institute for Computational Design and Construction". icd.uni-stuttgart.de. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ↑ Interactive, Warp. "The Presidents Medals: Winners". www.presidentsmedals.com. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ↑ Name, Dein. "Benjamin Samuel". benjaminsamuel.net. Retrieved 2017-01-13.
- ↑ "Hitchcock illuminated" (PDF). 14 September 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ↑ "Beholding Bach and Beethoven" (PDF). 25 January 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ↑ "The Demiurge at the Computer" (PDF). 10 July 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ↑ "Shakespeare in Colour" (PDF). 3 March 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
- ↑ "Harmonische Formsynthese" (PDF). 25 November 2010. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
External links[edit]
- ONE TO ONE Website
- Benjamin Samuel Website
- What Happens When Algorithms Design a Concert Hall? The Stunning Elbphilharmonie. In: WIRED Magazine. 12 January 2017.
- Architectural Details: Herzog & de Meuron's Spectacular Elbphilharmonie. In: Architizer. 8 December 2016.
- Ten-thousand notes going under the skin. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. 9 April 2016.
- Bach, mapped: 75,730 notes of 'Goldberg Variations' visualized. In: WIRED UK. 20 February 2012.
- The Demiurge at the Computer. In: Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung. 10 July 2010.
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