Minh Duc grew up in Germany, and his origins are in Vietnam. He studied mathematics and computer science. After a residency in Brussels in 2015, he collaborated with performers and choreographers and worked for different exhibitions, performance projects, art festivals and art institutions like workspacebrussels. So he participated in a collaboration project with Gregory Sholette, workspacebrussels and Sale Docks Venice, during the Biennale di Venezia in 2017. With the knowledge of mathematical and computer science-based concepts, he is interested in interdisciplinary art forms between art and science. His works consist of hybrid and mixed art forms from several genres, including installations, performances, projections and sound art. In 2018 he created a new concept for ongoing installation and performative works based on the mathematical concept of cellular automata, supervised by professors Stefan Schmidt and Andreas Deutsch of the Mathematical Institute and Centre for Information Services and high-performance computation in Dresden. His works consist of hybrid and mixed art forms from several genres, including installations, performances, projections and sound art. During his residency in 2019 in Montreal, Canada, he dived more into the electronic music scene, artistic computation, and electro-acoustic performances. From 2020 he was active in a small art and cultural NGO in Germany. Recently, he has been focusing more on photography and personal documentation while researching experimental musical experiments while intersecting modular synthesis and piano.

Dresden

In this installation, different materials are used to create an unnatural emergence of light.

woodframe, silver reflective fabric, micro controller, leds, copper cable, screws

In this installation, different materials are used to create an unnatural emergence of light. The specific setup of leds and reflective fabric will create different kinds of reflection and allows the observer to see shining emergence which can not be seen normally. A micro controller puts the leds in a particular sequence to increase the intensity of this magical appearance. The box holds the construction of the fabric and leds. The cables are lined outside the box that are connected to the micro-controller which is attached also on the outside. The inside of the box installation stays therefore very clean and the inner sides are painted in black. In this case, an own artificial space is opened to the observer. Through different angles of observation, the people in front of the installation are able to change the shining behaviour of the leds.

halo-scope