- Film & Video
- Installation
- Interdisciplinary Project
groundless - Sensing Beyond
Cemre Bayatlıer, Stratos Bichakis, Özcan Ertek, Jung Hsu, Vinzenz Aubry, Tristan Wheeler
27 June 2025 19:00–21:00
28 June 2025 14:00–19:00
29 June 2025 14:00–19:00
Sensing Beyond explores the intersection of perception and imagination, asking: how do we navigate the world when sensory boundaries begin to dissolve? The exhibition addresses shifting states of reality and fleeting experiences – through light, sound, movement, and interaction. In uncertain times, these works offer speculative ways of sensing beyond the familiar.
The Berlin-based media art collective Groundless presents works by Cemre Bayatlıer, Stratos Bichakis, Özcan Ertek, Jung Hsu, Vinzenz Aubry, and Tristan Wheeler as part of 48 Stunden Neukölln.
In line with the festival theme What the Fact, the exhibition examines how perception constructs truth – and how art can destabilize or reconfigure that construction.
Özcan Ertek’s Birds on the Wire transforms anti-bird spikes into resonant sound bodies, activated by wind and noise, creating a speculative sonic landscape that reflects on control, boundaries, and shared urban space.
Vinzenz Aubry’s Vibrations for Android features vibrating pedestals that reveal themselves only through touch – an invitation to explore alternative layers of sensory knowledge.
Cemre Bayatlıer’s Wipe Me Out of Here presents a windshield wiper endlessly cleaning a mirror – a metaphor for the exhausting pursuit of self-clarity, marked by illusion and fragmentation.
Stratos Bichakis’ A Sense of Time uses neural sonification to create spaces of emotional renewal and new temporal experiences – somewhere between science, technology, and dream.
Tristan Wheeler’s umbrella,16.13339614868164 features a mechanized paper bird performing for an artificial vision system. The work reveals the gap between organic gesture and algorithmic perception.
Jung Hsu’s Aviary presents nine standardized birdcages filled with videos, images, and sound – moments of nature captured for observation. The installation reflects on the human urge to tame and possess nature for hobby or entertainment, questioning proximity, control, and representation.
Together, these works reconfigure how we relate to reality. Sensing Beyond opens a porous sensory space where ambiguity, contradiction, and intimacy emerge as powerful tools for understanding and reimagining the world.
The Berlin-based media art collective Groundless presents works by Cemre Bayatlıer, Stratos Bichakis, Özcan Ertek, Jung Hsu, Vinzenz Aubry, and Tristan Wheeler as part of 48 Stunden Neukölln.
In line with the festival theme What the Fact, the exhibition examines how perception constructs truth – and how art can destabilize or reconfigure that construction.
Özcan Ertek’s Birds on the Wire transforms anti-bird spikes into resonant sound bodies, activated by wind and noise, creating a speculative sonic landscape that reflects on control, boundaries, and shared urban space.
Vinzenz Aubry’s Vibrations for Android features vibrating pedestals that reveal themselves only through touch – an invitation to explore alternative layers of sensory knowledge.
Cemre Bayatlıer’s Wipe Me Out of Here presents a windshield wiper endlessly cleaning a mirror – a metaphor for the exhausting pursuit of self-clarity, marked by illusion and fragmentation.
Stratos Bichakis’ A Sense of Time uses neural sonification to create spaces of emotional renewal and new temporal experiences – somewhere between science, technology, and dream.
Tristan Wheeler’s umbrella,16.13339614868164 features a mechanized paper bird performing for an artificial vision system. The work reveals the gap between organic gesture and algorithmic perception.
Jung Hsu’s Aviary presents nine standardized birdcages filled with videos, images, and sound – moments of nature captured for observation. The installation reflects on the human urge to tame and possess nature for hobby or entertainment, questioning proximity, control, and representation.
Together, these works reconfigure how we relate to reality. Sensing Beyond opens a porous sensory space where ambiguity, contradiction, and intimacy emerge as powerful tools for understanding and reimagining the world.
Biography
Cemre Bayatlıer, Stratos Bichakis, Özcan Ertek, Jung Hsu, Vinzenz Aubry, Tristan Wheeler
Vinzenz Aubry (1993, Strasbourg) is a French-German artist working at the intersection of art, design, and programming. His multimedia installations and sculptures critically examine the relationships between humans, machines, and nature, often focusing on expanded sonic experiences and interactive environments.
Cemre Bayatlıer (1996, Istanbul) is a visual artist based in Berlin and currently studying at the University of the Arts Berlin. Her work explores mechanisms of perception and self-image through visual installations.
Stratos Bichakis (1984, Athens) is a media artist and researcher based in Berlin. His practice spans audiovisual installations, engineering, and education, often investigating psychoacoustics and perception. He has collaborated with renowned artists like Michela Pelusio and Christopher Bauder and is a member of the Contemporary Music Research Center (KSYME-CMRC). Stratos co-founded the creative hub Ubique and continues to explore sound and light as mediums to probe the unconscious and cognitive nonconscious.
Özcan Ertek (1989, Istanbul) is a Berlin-based sound and media artist whose interactive installations and kinetic sound sculptures merge sonic experimentation with mechanics and new media. With a background in mechanical engineering and sound design, Ertek creates immersive works that explore the socio-political dimensions of urban environments and technology.
Jung Hsu is a Taiwanese researcher and new media artist based in Berlin. She combines interdisciplinary knowledge and artistic research to respond to contemporary social dynamics. Her metaphorical installations often examine micro-biopolitics and collective memory, offering speculative approaches to social movements.
Tristan Wheeler is a media artist currently studying in the New Media class at the University of the Arts Berlin. His work explores the relationship between machine vision, gesture, and interspecies communication. Drawing on evolutionary behavior and digital imaging systems, his kinetic installations reflect on the complexity of perception across species and technologies.
Cemre Bayatlıer (1996, Istanbul) is a visual artist based in Berlin and currently studying at the University of the Arts Berlin. Her work explores mechanisms of perception and self-image through visual installations.
Stratos Bichakis (1984, Athens) is a media artist and researcher based in Berlin. His practice spans audiovisual installations, engineering, and education, often investigating psychoacoustics and perception. He has collaborated with renowned artists like Michela Pelusio and Christopher Bauder and is a member of the Contemporary Music Research Center (KSYME-CMRC). Stratos co-founded the creative hub Ubique and continues to explore sound and light as mediums to probe the unconscious and cognitive nonconscious.
Özcan Ertek (1989, Istanbul) is a Berlin-based sound and media artist whose interactive installations and kinetic sound sculptures merge sonic experimentation with mechanics and new media. With a background in mechanical engineering and sound design, Ertek creates immersive works that explore the socio-political dimensions of urban environments and technology.
Jung Hsu is a Taiwanese researcher and new media artist based in Berlin. She combines interdisciplinary knowledge and artistic research to respond to contemporary social dynamics. Her metaphorical installations often examine micro-biopolitics and collective memory, offering speculative approaches to social movements.
Tristan Wheeler is a media artist currently studying in the New Media class at the University of the Arts Berlin. His work explores the relationship between machine vision, gesture, and interspecies communication. Drawing on evolutionary behavior and digital imaging systems, his kinetic installations reflect on the complexity of perception across species and technologies.
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