Niklas Roy is an artist, inventor, and educator, based in Berlin. His hands-on, DIY approach to engineering, constructing, and coding has resulted in numerous installations and machines that have been exhibited worldwide. https://www.niklasroy.com
Generative Art 1€ – Democratizing art consumption and collection
Created by Niklas Roy, Generative Art 1€ is a coin-operated vending machine for unique plotter drawings. A generative algorithm continuously draws an animated black line on a screen, offering an endless stream of potential artworks. Each piece exi...
Pneumatic Sponge Ball Accelerator at the Tschumi Pavilion
Inspired by CERN's "Large Hadron Collider", Niklas Roy creates an installation at the Tschumi Pavilion in Groningen in the Netherlands that contains 1000 black sponge balls, which are sucked through 150m of transparent pneumatic tubes at high speed.
À Louer / For Rent – Shopfront installation by Niklas Roy
When Niklas Roy was invited to show My Little Piece of Privacy at Sherbrooke’s Media Art Biennia lÉspace [IM] Média, he decided that he had to modify it slightly. Surrounded by many abandoned shop fronts, his installation was to set up in one of t...
All About Cardboard – Workshop by Niklas Roy + Cardboard Plotter
Last week Niklas Roy proposed students at the School of Art and Design Offenbach build computers out of cardboard. Not really knowing at all where this will lead to, results included an information distribution knot, a mechanical NAND gate, a Spee...
PING! Augmented Pixel [Tutorials, Games]
'PING! – Augmented Pixel’ is a seventies style videogame, that adds a layer of digital information and oldschool aesthetics to a video signal: A classic rectangular video game ball moves across a video image.
My little piece of Privacy
My little piece of Privacy is an installation by Niklas Roy that detects the location of pedestrians outside and positions itself rapidly to where they are, thus blocking their looks inside.
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