Watz
From Mediaspace
Marius Watz
Marius Watz is an artist concerned with generative systems for creating visual form, still, animated or realtime. His signature is a brand of visual hedonism, marked by colourful organic shapes and a maximalist attitude. Most of his works deal with drawing machines implemented in software, live visuals for music or large-scale projections of plastic visual systems. In 2003 he premiered the public art commission Drawing Machine 1-12. In recent years he has created several animated works for projection on building facades such as Neon Organic, which was projected on the Vattenfall headquarters in Berlin.
In 2005 Watz started Generator.x, a platform for generative art and design which so far has resulted in a conference, a blog, a travelling exhibition and concert tour.
Watz currently lives in New York. His tools of choice are Java, Processing, VVVV and Flash. He continues to edit the Generator.x blog and prepare future Generator.x events, as well as teach workshops in computational design and generative art.
Stockspace
At mediaspace_09 Marius Watz will show his 2008/2009 installation of 'Stockspace' prints. The 'Stockspace' visualizations are generated from specific generalized stock market data input.
For most people the stock market is a world of mythology, populated by slick traders like Michael Douglas in the classic 80's movie "Wall Street". But in reality almost all trading is now done over electronic networks. The market is no longer a place, but a networked space where changes in value can be measured with a precision of milliseconds. The "Stockspace" series interpret the complex data flows of the stock market, mapping share price fluctuations into geometric form. These images are an aesthetic exploration of intrinsic forms latent in the data sets. The resulting colorful datascapes might not present any money-making insights, but are a view into a virtual world of complex information flows.
