FELD

studio for digital crafts

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FELD was founded in 2011 by a group of Berlin-based designers who

share a common language of digital thinking in their creative process.

The studio combines scenography, computational and generative

design, physical computing, electronics, user interface design and a

confident and elegant graphic design attitude. These skills are equally

present in artistic interventions and in high-end production

commissions for digital communication projects such as interactive

environments, spatial installations or exhibitions.

FELD is composed of graphic, media and product designers, software

and hardware developers, engineers and project managers, and holds

several in-house prototyping and production tools to facilitate an

iterative and experiment-driven design process. Each project is

carefully and individually handled and evolves in close dialogue with

the respective client.

The studio has been working with international clients and partners

within various fields, ranging from commercial companies and

research institutes to cultural institutions, galleries, architects and

artists. This portrait offers an inside view of the studio’s work and

philosophy to potential partners for future collaborations.

FELD is inspired by the possibilities

of technology to transcend the

borders between physical and digital

environments, seamlessly bridging

art and design, architecture and

engineering, society and science.

Luminous Sculpture

A parametric light sculpture

with custom control software

We love what we do.

Design consultancy for

Hardware and software products

Digital communication technology

Information design

Data visualisation strategies

Corporate design

User experiences

Service and process design

Design services

Information experience design

Spatial scenography and interior design

User experience design

Service and interface design

Data visualisation

Computational and generative design

3D renderings and animations

Product design

Motion graphics & film

Graphic and packaging design

Concept development for

Digital products and services

Communication projects

Data visualisation

Interactive environments

Spatial installations

Exhibitions

Brand events

Technical development & production of

Physical object prototyping and modeling

Custom software and electronics development

Mechanical and robotic components

Media and interior installations

Production management and site supervision

Administrative procedures and project

management

Short and long term maintenance planning

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FELD carefully orchestrates the use of technology in order to focus

on the actual experience. We are inspired and driven by the

possibilities of technology but also acutely aware that every machine

is merely a tool, a system created to solve a task or to stimulate the

mind of the spectator. Thus, it is important, especially as a designer,

artist or engineer, to remain in control – a machine alone does not

have intuition or creativity. The relationship between machine and

human should always result in a fruitful and inspiring dialogue.

Technology enables us to extend our

senses and to raise our awareness of

the world around us.

Kinetic Rain

Computational design process

for the kinetic sculpture at Changi

Airport Singapore in collaboration

with Art+Com

Supersign

Computational design process

and software for repurposing a

building’s lighting system at

night, commissioned by Statoil

Norway in collaboration with

Art+Com

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Digital Wooden Pipe Organ

Control electronics and devices

to operate a manual pipe organ in

a digital, non-organ like fashion

for the live shows of the musician

Nils Frahm.

FELD stands for an interdisciplinary approach that equally honours

the physical and the virtual. We want to tickle your senses, make the

invisible visible and the intangible tangible – the medium itself is of

secondary importance.

KRÄFTE and PHYSIKA

An ongoing series of exhibitions

displaying installations that

evoke a unique feel of elemental

power and energy in an

experimental manner, self

commissioned works by FELD

FELD’s experimental approach

crosses various disciplines of media

and technology to create spatial

installations and sensory narratives

designed to broaden your perception

and imagination.

Music for Diary

Exhibition installation about the lost

tapes of composer Nancarrow,

commisioned by Gallery

Neugerriemschneider for the 8th

Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

Many projects start with a simple idea and grow in detail over time.

We perform small experiments to deepen our understanding of a

topic and use our findings as a starting point for further iteration. We

also consider non-electronic materials and immaterial elements

such as processes and habitats as viable technologies and modes

of expression.

In our process, we aim to reduce complexity, focusing on the

essentially intuitive experience that we want to provoke. We are

interested in expanding human perception and imagination by linking

physical, virtual and social environments in an elegant and useful

way.

FELD finds answers in a practical

manner: an integral component of every

project is the experiment-driven

process – even if you can’t see it in the

final product.

Loads

A kinetic framework to investigate

the way we read and understand

physical phenomena of embodiment

in the interaction of space and

matter – in collaboration with the

architect Patrick Bedarf

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Possibly Colliding

An immersive spatial installation

representing the collision of

objects in time and space,

exhibited at the public foyer of

the Barbican Centre, London

Instruction For Two Pens

computational design workshop at

the Muthesius University of Arts

Notations Workshop Series

electronics and sensors workshop at the Tongji

and Tsinghua Universities Shanghai and Bejing

An important part of FELD’s

philosophy is sharing and

exchanging knowledge.

The studio is frequently invited to give lectures and talks at

symposiums and festivals around the world, while also organising

independent seminars and workshops at universities, research

institutes and private companies. The workshops offer a practical,

hands-on approach to exploring and combining new methods, ideas

and technologies. With a particular focus on the relationship

between design, technology and society, they are open to

participants from all backgrounds.

FELD is constantly looking for partners

and collaborators to develop new ideas

and projects with.

The studio regularly collaborates with people, businesses and

institutions spanning various fields. We work with clients from the

cultural sector, industry and trade, as well as science-focused

research institutes and universities. Whether you’re an artist,

musician or an architectural firm, a cutting edge tech company, a car

manufacturer, fashion designer or something else entirely – we are

always searching for new and inspiring creative partnerships!

This collaboration may be initiated by a simple idea or by a complex

problem; some are proposed and driven by the curiosity of the studio

members themselves. No matter how a project starts, we approach

our clients as partners, striving to find solutions together and in a

collaborative dialogue.

Culture

Barbican Centre London, Erased Tapes Records,

Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Woodkid, Kiasmos,

Efterklang, Erased Tapes Music Publishing,

Michael Price, STED Copenhagen, Ben Lukas

Boysen, Peter Broderick, Unpainted Media Art Fair

Munich, Erased Tapes Publishing, Manners McDade

Music Publishing, Funkhaus Berlin, Sonic Pieces,

Nonkeen

Business, industry and trade

Arago, Adidas, Mercedes Benz, AMG, ic-Berlin, VW,

Clarins Asia, Armando Testa Group, Volkswagen

Future Center Europe, Statoil, Giorgio Armani,

Art+Com, Changi International Airport, TBWA Italy,

GHB Landscape Architects Copenhagen, Triad

Berlin, Float PR, Juke Entertainment, Pigmentpol

Germany, ATMO Designstudio

Research and teaching

Wikimedia, Fraunhofer Institute, University Kassel,

University of the Arts Berlin, Bauhaus University

Weimar, Tongji University Shanghai, Tsinghua

University Beijing, Winchester School of Art,

Karlsruhe Institut of Technology

Recent collaborations

If you are interested in working with us

or would like to know more about FELD,

please contact us via email or phone

or simply drop by at our studio for a

coffee and a chat – we would love to

hear from you!

Torsten Posselt

Founder and Artistic Lead

Frederic Gmeiner

Founder and Creative Lead

FELD studio for digital crafts

Urbanstraße 116

10967 Berlin

+49 30 915 12 186

hello@feld.is

Extracts of Local Distance,

Jewish Museum Berlin, Daniel Libeskind

Series of computationally generated collages of

architectural photography with an algorithmic

synthesized perspective

Exhibitions

2016

Barbican Centre foyer, London, UK

Possibly Colliding, site-specific kinetic installation

Lichtkunstfestival Aufstiege,

Airport Tower Stuttgart, Germany

Public Face II, installation

2015

ExPost, Prague, Czech Republic

Jller, group exhibition

digital_ia.15, 13muz gallery, Szeczin, Poland

KRÄFTE, group exhibition

Sensient Geometries, Spektrum, Berlin, Germany

LOADS, group exhibition

2014

8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art,

Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Germany

Music for Diary, group exhibition

Thingworld – 3rd Media Art Triennial,

National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus, group exhibition

Philips headquarter, Vienna, Austria

Public Face II, public installation

Senatsreservenspeicher, Berlin, Germany

PHYSIKA, group exhibition

2012

gallery 22presents, Prague, Czech Republic

KRÄFTE, solo exhibition

Malzfabrik, Berlin, Germany

Public Face II, public installation

Chamber of Architects, Karlsruhe, Germany

Extracts of Local Distance, solo exhibition

Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, Munich, Germany

Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus, permanent

installation

2011

Seeing/Knowing, Graham Gund Gallery,

Gambier, Ohio, USA

Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus, group exhibition

F75 Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

Extracts of Local Distance, solo exhibition

Provinz, Lindau, Germany

Public Face II, group exhibition

Pixelache Festival, Muu Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Return of the Unexpected – Computational

Photography, group exhibition

Transmediale, CTM and Create, Berlin, Germany

Digital Art + Sound Weekends, group exhibition

2010

DMY Youngsters, DesignMai Festival Berlin, Germany

Extracts of Local Distance, group exhibition

E-Plus Headquarter, Berlin, Germany

Augmented Realities, group exhibition

IDD meets Digitale Klasse, Gallery Le Deco,

Tokyo, Japan

Extracts of Local Distance, group exhibition

Museum of Communication, Berlin, Germany

Lange Nacht der Museen, group exhibition

2009

1um1 Festival, Lisboa, Portugal

Extracts of Local Distance, group exhibition

Pixelache, Museum of Modern Art Kiasma,

Helsinki, Finland

Indie Design, group exhibition

Gallerie Flo Peters, Hamburg, Germany

Extracts of Local Distance, solo exhibition

Design Festival Berlin, Germany

DMY designtransfer, group exhibition

2008

Stedelijk Museum at Post CS,

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Sensing City, performance

International Mediafacade Festival, Berlin, Germany

Public Face I, public installation

2016

Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

Hoch und Runter, digital fabrication and prototyping

workshop

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Design Fiction For Real, summer semester course

2014

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Polyptych – From parametric arts to plastic toy

look-alikes, semester course

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Escaping Flatland, winter semester course

2013

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Growing Things, summer semester course

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Signals On Scales, winter semester course

2012

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Computational Motion, semester course

Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, Germany

Instructions for Two Pens, workshop

Tongji University, Shanghai, China

NOTATIONS workshop, data collection and

visualisation with a DIY sensor kit

Tsinghua University, Bejing, China

NOTATIONS workshop, data collection and

visualisation with a DIY sensor kit

AGORA Collective, Berlin, Germany

NOTATIONS workshop, data collection and

visualisation with a DIY sensor kit

Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

The Wizard of Oz, mock-ups and prototyping

workshop

Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

Advanced Computational Design, lecture

Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany

How to form energy flux in space?, workshop in

cooperation with Clemens Winkler

2011

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Generative Arts and Computational Design,

semester course

Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany

Physical Computing and Data Stories, lecture

Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany

Material Computing, workshop in cooperation with

Clemens Winkler

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Computational Design for Laser, lecture

2010

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Augmented Reality, Open Frameworks and OpenCV

workshop

Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Germany

Tactile Networks, workshop in cooperation with

Holger Frey

Media Lab Helsinki, Finland

Computational Photography, lecture

Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences,

Kemi/Tornio, Finland

Generative Design for Laser Projection, workshop

2009

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Paper Based Interfaces, DIY sensors workshop

Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Germany

Tactile Screens, workshop together with Holger Frey

2008

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Physical computing, Arduino and electronic basics

course

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Visual Ciphers, workshop

2007

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

White Boxes, Arduino and electronic basics

workshop

University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

Custom Design Tools, Processing introduction

course

Teaching / Workshops

FELDstudio for digital crafts GmbH

Urbanstraße 116

10967 Berlin

Telephone +49 30 915 12 186

Telefax +49 30 915 48 213

hello@feld.is

www.feld.is

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