Welcome to the imachination project space by Tim Otto Roth!

cyber-carpet MaSo N°1 21 September 2024 - 8 June 2022, Fellow Travellers, Centre for Art & Media, ZKM Karlsruhe
Theatre of Memory 10 January - 23 March 2024, Tieranatomisches Theater Berlin
[aiskju:b] - a cosmic sound laboratorium 05 December 2023 - 25 February 2024, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, (F)
[aiskju:b] chamber music 14 September - 8 October 2023, Des Abysses au Cosmos, Fort Napoleon, La-Seyne-sur-Mer (F)
Dahinter stecken viele kluge Köpfe 2022/23, Newspaper NATUR N°1 - Black Forest Kickoff in Oppenau
Nymphomania 18 September 2022, Premiere of the anaglyphic shadow opera at Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig
NATUR 24 July 2022, inauguration and Day of Open Sculpture
Heaven's Carousel - Wie ein Naturlaut (Like a Sound of Nature) 16 - 25 July 2021, opening concert on 16 July with Svea Schildknecht (Soprano), Eva Nesselrath(Alto), Bernhard Münchach (Trumpet), Franz Schüssele (Alphorn), Alte Saline, Kunstakademie Bad Reichenhall
From the Distant Past American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 2011
Peri-Sonapticon 3 October 2021, studio premiere at imachination labs, Oppenau
Cold Harmonies 28 March - 11 April 2021, St. Gertrud, Cologne
Heaven's Carousel Platz der Verfassungsfreunde, Offenburg, 5 - 20 September 2020
Logische Phantasien | Logical Fantasies Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche Aschaffenburg, 7 March - 14 June 2020 image: Stefan Stark
extended until 16 August 2020
[aiskju:b] light and sound installation with 444 illuminated synthesizers - a collaboration with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, Ludwig Forum Aachen, 6 September - 10 November 2019
Sun on Stage premiere at the 1oo years Bauhaus Jubilee Opening Festival
Akademie der Künste in Berlin 17 - 24 January 2019
Schatten im Blick? Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Köln 28 September 2018 - 13 January 2019
SMART>SOS premiere of the bio computing related 30 channel light and sound installation, IRCAM/Centre Pompidou, Paris (France), 13 - 16 June 2018
Deep Doppler meets Mathematical Socialism solo show "Circulating Sounds", Goethe Institut, Hanoi (Vietnam), 12 October - 3 November 2017
CORNER TESSERACT Premiere at "Phenomenological Lightworks", NeMe, Limmassol (CY), 30 September - 25 October 2017
LITTLE BANG THEORY or ZEROconCERN Premiere at Berthold Leibinger Stiftung, 9 September 2016
Ligth From the Other Side solo show at Goethe Institute, Washington DC (US), 9 November 2016 - 13 January 2017
Cosmic Revelation light festival Aufstiege [Ascents], Stuttgart(D), 17 September - 9 October 2016
XX oder der "Mummelsee in der Pfanne" solo show at Städtische Galerie Offenburg (D), 20 February - 29 May 2016
sterea skia an anaglyphic shadow theatre, public projection 12 x 100 m lichtsicht 5 Bad Rothenfelde (D), 18 September 2015 - 7 February 2016
> Body. Projection. Picture | A cultural history of shadow pictures past public book presentation at Cologne Art & Museum Library on 6 December 2015
Heaven's Carousel @ Globale lift off every night in front of the Natural History Museum Karlsruhe, 19 June - 9 August 2015, image: ZKM/ONUK
Heaven's Carousel Premiere on 17-20 March in the context of the HST IV conference at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome
Cosmic Revelation Cosmic ray related light installation, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (D), 2009
aura calculata Cellular automata based sound installation, Lehmann-Zentrum, TU Dresden(D), 2014/15
Imachinations Digital projection, MUMOK Vienna, 2008
Coloursex Koehler AG, Oberkirch (D), 2009
I see what I see not Kunstfassade München (D), 2004/05
Sonapticon Concert at Sounddome, Center for Arts & Media ZKM Karlsruhe (D), 2012
Videoshadows Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Karlsruhe (D), 2005
Chromology Städtische Gallerie, Wetzlar (D), 2009
Colours of the Universe Hydrogene plasma light sculpture, Illmenau (D), 2008
100 days - 100 imachinations Library of Alexandria (EG), 2005
Pixelsex KPN Telecom Tower, Rotterdam (NL), 2006
From the Distant Past Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, 2011
Music of Life Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden (D), 2008
Magica Catoptrica Blendwerk, Schloß Achberg (D), 2010
Meeresleuchten Plankton luminograms, 2007/08
Sans point de vue Verein für aktuelle Kunst, Oberhausen (D), 2009
100 Days - 100 Imachinations Triple digital projection, Kubus of ZKM Karlsruhe (D), 2004/05
facing science growing network during the exhibition WeltWissen, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2010
Les neuf portes de ton corps Sexuell, Stiftung Starke Berlin, 2001

November 2024 | "Wood a challenging matter for life" - learn more in the recent blog and 10 min video how Karlsruhe researchers helped to reveal the hidden microbiological habitat: NATUR blog.

June 2024 | The German Musikfonds has published a catalogue featuring selected projects of the funding period from 2020-2023. The Mahler production Wie ein Naturlaut with the Heaven's Carousel for Bad Reichenhall in 2021 is among the selected productions (pp 104-107), see digital version.

more news

15 – 28 February 2024
Theatre of Memory, MPI for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankurt a. M., opening 15 February 19h, registration requested

12 Januray – 23 March 2024
Theatre of Memory Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin Mitte, opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday 14-18 h

5 December 2023 – 25 Febuary 2024
[aiskju:b] - a cosmic sound laboratorium, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris, artist reception: 5 December 16:30 h

17 July 2023 Theatre of Memory is one of the 3 selected artist projects for the new ReSilence S+T+ARTS program by the European Comission.

14 July 2023 NATUR – Vergängliche Monumentalskulptur von Tim Otto Roth, one day excursion with students of the seminar by Prof. Dr. Jens Hauser, KIT, Department of Architecture, 9:30-16:30h.

7 May 2023 Art & Astronomy, special studio guest at Sibylle Anderl's Space Night science, ARD Alpha, 19h CET

Newyear 2022/23 NATUR N°1 newspaper has appeared featuring the sculpture's "Black Forest Kickoff in Oppenau". Learn more...

18 September 2022 Nymphomania, shadow opera, premiere in the context of the Kulturmeile, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, 20-22h.

24 July 2022 Tag der offenen Skulptur We celebrate the inauguration of the first NATUR sculpture on the top of the hill Kleinebene, Oppenau (itinerary), 11-19h.

8 April 2022 Wo Natur drauf steht, ist auch Natur drin, Kick off exhibition for NATUR in the context of the Museumsnacht Oppenau, 17-24h. Electronic concert When the bee gets the beat with Kaspår (Strasbourg) on 22:30h.

29 October 2021, 14 Meter hohe Natur-Skulptur auf Schwarzwaldhöhe geplant, by Rüdiger Knie, Acher Rench Zeitung

3 October 2021 premiere of the Peri-Sonapticon in the imachination labs with Yérri-Gaspar Hummel as guest musician

Feburar/March 2021imachination projects receives two Neustart Kultur production grants by the Musicfonds to compose the new program "Wie ein Naturlaut" for the Heaven's Carousel to be presented in mid July at the Art Academy Bad Reichenhall and by the BBK to produce the new TP version of the neuro-acoustic Sonapticon.

20 July 2020 Video record of the public talk with Maria Cecilia Barbetta at Museen Aschaffenburg is now online as 6 minute version with English captions and as full lenght video on .

further recent news in the news archive:

21 September 2024 – 8 June 2025 Fellow Travellers, ZKM Karlsruhe, opening: 20 September 19:30h

6 December 2023 - 25 Febuary 2024 [aiskju:b] - a cosmic sound laboratorium Musée des Arts et Métiers, Paris , opening 5 December

12 January – 23 March 2024 Theatre of Memory, Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, opening: 11 January 18:30h

14 September – 8 October 2023 [aiskju:b] chamber music at the show Des Abysses au Cosmos, Fort Napoleon, La-Seyne-sur-Mer (F)

29 June 2023 [aiskju:b] chamber music, IBZ TU Dortmund

18 September 2022 Nymphomania, shadow opera, premiere in the context of the Kulturmeile, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig, 20-22h.

8 April 2022 Wo NATUR draufsteht ist auch Natur drin, imachination labs, Museumsnacht Oppenau, 17-24h.

16 - 25 July 2021 Heaven's Carousel - Wie ein Naturlaut, Alte Saline, Kunstkakademie Bad Reichenhall, D. Every night 21-23h.

28 March - 11 April 2021 Cold Harmonies, St. Getrud, Köln, D

5 September – 20 September 2020 Heaven's Carousel, Platz der Verfassungsfreunde, Offenburg, D

28 March - 11 April 2021 Cold Harmonies, St. Getrud, Köln, D

07 March – 16 August 020Logische Phantasien, solo show at Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg, D

5 May – 25 June 2020 das erste mal zum zweiten mal. 20 Jahre, group show at Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg, D

~~20 March – 6 April 2020~~ ~~Heaven's Carousel @ World Science Festival & Curiocity Brisbane presented in the plazza of Queensland Museum, Brisbane, AU~~ canceled due to Corona measures

6 September – 10 November 2019 AIS³ [aiskju:b], a sound laboratorium in collaboration with the IceCube Observatory, Ludwig Forum for Internationale Kunst ,

Aachen, D1 June – 27 July 2019 From the Rocket to the Moon, group show featuring Cosmic revelation, Galerie Parrotta Contemporary Art, Burg Lede, Bonn, extened until 31 August

11 May – 25 August 2019 Aufgeblüht und abgelichtet: Blumen in der Fotografie, group show featuring Flora domestica, Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, D

2 – 31 March 2019
© No.9: im-raum-stehen, group show, COPYRIGHT, Berlin, opening: 1 March 2019, 19h

9 – 10 Feburary 2019
AIS³ [aiskju:b], a sound laboratorium in collaboration with the IceCube Observatory, Reaktorhalle, München

16 – 24 January 2019
premiere of Sun on Stage, commission for the exhibiton "Licht.Schatten.Spuren" at the Opening Festival 100 Years Bauhaus at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, D

27 September 2018 – 13 January 2019
Schatten im Blick?, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Berlin

17 October 2018
presentation of SMART>SOS, in occasion of the jubilee "10 years Fraunhofer ENAS", Chemnitz, D

29 August – 16 Sepember 2018
AIS³ [aiskju:b], a sound laboratorium in collaboration with the IceCube Observatory, St. Elisabeth, Berlin-Mitte, opening: 28 August 19h

8 September 2018
Symphonia Galactea, an electronic concert in collaboration with SFB 956 at the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope, (on invitation only)

12 October - 4 November 2017
Circulating Sounds – Deep Doppler meets mathematical socialism, solo show, Goethe Institut Hanoi, Vietnam, opening: 12 October 18h

30 September - 25 October 2017
Phenomenological Lightworks, group show, NeMe, Limassol, Cyprus

12 November 2024 Nachhall aus den Tiefen des Universums - Kunst & Wissenschaft im Universum der kleinsten Teilchen, public talk with astroparticle physicists from KIT/KCETA, Naturkundemuseum Karlsruhe, 18:30 h

19 June 2024 Die unsichtbare Natur - Heimspiel Wissenschaft, public conversation with Dr. Andreas Haungs (KIT/APPEC), imachination labs, Oppenau, 19h.

26/27 January 2024 Theatere of Memory - a transdisciplinary symposium on neuron aessthetics, symposium co-chair and moderator, Charité & HU Berlin..

11 June 2024 Das Materielle der NATUR, excursion to the NATUR sculpture with a joined seminar by KIT and HfG Karlsruhe.

20 February 2024 How did you do you that?, public talk at MPI for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankurt a. M., 18h

20 January 2024 Theatre of Memory - Künstlergespräch, public conversation at Tieranatomisches Theater, Berlin, 16h, admission free.

12 September 2023 Theatere of Memory - a nervous sound laboratory, lunch talk at MPI for Empirical Aesthetics (not public), Frankurt a. M.

20 July 2023 Theatre of Memory, presentation at the plenary meeting of the ReSilence S+T+ARTS program, Casa Paganini, Genoa/I

14 June 2023Wenn Kunst und Wissenschaft zusammentreffen, public talk and conversation with Matthias Neubert and Peter Kiefer, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz, 18h

1 June 2023 Round Table "Art & Science" Part II, panelist together with Chiara Santini Parducci, Lilian Lijn and Attila Csorgo, Symposium Stavros Katsanevas, University Paris Cité, Laboratoire APC, Paris, 17:15h

24 April 2023 Ingenuity ex machina, guest presentation at Creativity Unleashed hybrid workshop, Crosslabs, Kyoto, 1PM CET/ 7AM EST

20 March 2023 Theatre of Memory, guest speaker at 3rd Berlin-Bochum Memory Alliance Symposium 2023, Charité Crossover, Berlin

14 March 2023 [aiskju:b] chamber music – how scientific data inspire new composition concepts, guest presentation at 2023 Spring IceCube Collaboration Meeting, SuperC, RWTH Aachen

2 March 2023 A new kind of science – a new kind of art? Towards an aesthetics of complexity, opening lecture as invited speaker at Second Asean Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology (ASCAT), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India, 6 AM CET

30 November 2022 Physik der Kunst, Institut für Physik, TU Chemnitz,11-12h

14 September 2022 artist talk, with Thomas Richter (HAUM), Andreas Beitin & Holger Broeker (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg), Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum,17h (Facebook)

January 2024 Simulating, exploring and optimizing the spatial sound scene of the Sonapticon, by Bernhard U.Seeber, Johannes Kurz, Tim Otto Roth, in: Proceedings of the 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association Forum Acusticum 2023, pp. 4321-4325 (2024).

October 2022 In Search of Textile Roots of Computing: The Genesis of the First MaSo Carpet in India, by Tim Otto Roth, chapter in: A. Adamatzky (ed).: Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy, pp. 271-279 (2022)

25 June 2021
About the robustness of 1d cellular automata revising their temporal entropy by Tim Otto Roth, in Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Volume 425, November 2021.

March 2020
Logische Phantasien, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche Aschaffenburg, exhibition catalogue with contributions by Sebastian Baden, Thomas Richter, Miriam Seidler, Barbara Maria Stafford, Kehrer Heidelberg, 96 pages.

December 2021, The Charme of the Discrete Error – When Mathematical Socialism Becomes Art, by Tim Otto Roth, Journal of Cellular Automata16.1-2, p. 153-171

November 2020 Takte, Skalen, Daten, Algorithmen. Tim Otto Roth im Gespräch, Interview by Rainer Bayreuther, MusikTexte 167

3 July 2020
Roth, Tim Otto; Scheurmann, Konrad: Spectral Revision – a colourful conversation, in: Science and Art: The Contemporary Painted Surface (Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing) 2020, pp. 390–403.

27 September 2018
Schatten im Blick?, exhibition catalogue edited together with Thomas Ketelsen, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 56pp.

7 June 2018
Cover story in EIKON: Roth, Tim Otto: Fact or Fake – A Conversation on Physics, the Imagination and Magical Images, in: EIKON #102, pp. 57-67.

November 2018
Roth, Tim Otto: Ni Coup de Dés Ni Hasard. Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Zufall, in: Bild, Kunst, Medien. Resonanzen auf das Denken von Hans Ulrich Reck, Köln (Herbert von Halem)2018, pp. 135-140.

December 2017
Roth, Tim Otto; Scheurmann, Konrad: Spektrale Revisionen – ein Gespräch, in: GesprächsStoff Farbe (Böhlau) 2017, pp. 214–223.

January 2018
Roth, Tim Otto: Almost Bursting – Between Shadow and Lens Images, in: David Fried – Far From Equilibrium (Kerber) 2018, pp. 156–159.

October 2015
Roth, Tim Otto: Körper. Projektion. Bild – eine Kulturgeschichte der Schattenbilder, Paderborn (Fink) 2015

What is imaging today - imachination interview series

4 October 2024, Wo Natur drauf steht, ist auch Natur drin, interview by Wolfgang Huber, Ortenau Journal

20 September 2024, Werke von Tim Otto Roth bei "Fellow Travellers", by Ralf Burgmaier, Badische Zeitung

22 June 2024, Unsichtbares wird sichtbar gemacht, by Katharina Reich, Acher-Rench-Zeitung

27 February 2024, Das Verstehen des Musikverstehens, interview of Helga de la Motte-Haber by Thomas Groetz, featuring Theatre of Memory (min 43 ff), Deutschlandfunk Kultur

24 January 2024, On croit rêver le son des abysses, by I.V., Télérama, p. 4

20 January 2024, Wenn Lautsprecher hören, Offenburger Tageblatt

7 October 2023, Geister tief im Eis, by Sibylle Anderl, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Bilder und Zeiten, p. Z 6.

7 May 2023 Art & Astronomy, special studio guest at Sibylle Anderl's Space Night science, ARD Alpha, 19h CET

February 2022, Große Bühne für die Natur, Mein Schwarzwald, full page feature, edition 13, p. 40

29 July 2022, "Hollywood" im Schwarzwald: Die beeindruckende "Natur"-Skulptur von Tim Otto Roth, by Andreas Langen, SWR2 Kultur

23 July 2022, Vom Werden und Vergehen, by Rainer Braxmaier, Offenburger Tageblatt

27 October 2021, Vernetzt wie Nervenzellen, by Rainer Braxmaier, Offenburger Tageblatt

17 July 2021,Wenn Töne fliegen: Ein Gespräch mit dem Komponisten Tim Otto Roth, by Maximilian Klapper, Bad Reichenhaller Tageblatt

21 July 2021, Heavens Carousel in Bad Reichenhall, Regional Fernsehen Oberbayerns.

4 June 2020, Verwechslungsgefahr Folge 9: Gemeinsam stark, by Wolfgang Ullrich, Halle4

11 May 2020, Licht, Schatten und Bewegung. Tim Otto Roths "Logische Phantasien" in der Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche sind wieder zu sehen, by Christoph Schütte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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