This year’s signature collaborative concerts with partner festival transmediale – festival for digital art and culture host the German premiere of "Double Vision", a new collaboration between shape-shifter Atom™ (aka. Uwe Schmidt, Atom Heart, Señor Coconut) and the Australian intermedia artist Robin Fox in a powerful three-dimensional assault of sound and vision. A performance commissioned by Unsound and Adelaide Festival, "Double Vision" merges Fox's synaesthetic laser-show and Schmidt's deconstructed take on pop music in an attempt to explore affective involvement in a spectrum ranging from a near scientific demonstration of audiovisual phenomena to the playfulness of pop and back.

Robin Fox Laser Show from Robin Fox on Vimeo.

The second of two collaborative concerts, this evening also features "Black Smoking Mirror", a work that forms part of the Noise & Matter trilogy by Dutch artists Gert-Jan Prins and Martijn van Boven. Conveying the rudimentary elements of light, electronic frequencies, and chemical transformations through heat, capture, and storage in elementary media-technological materials, the work is presented on a fixed screen of inflammable canvas that is gradually engraved by a laser, causing combustion. The principle of reflection and the material processing of images is rendered frighteningly physical, a symbolic expression about the transformation time of resistance, friction, and obstruction of the canvas. What remains after the performance – the last, scortched image frame.