Digimag 55 June 2010, a monthly magazine which focuses on the impact of new technologies and modern sciences on art, design, culture and contemporary society, contains an article on the audiokinetic sculptor, Herman Kolgen: Radiography of the Matter: Herman Kolgen and the Sound Perception with text by Enrico Pitozzi and image courtesy of Herman Kolgen. Mimi Pena & Jessica Williams, translators.

Among the interesting figures of the artistic panorama, Herman Kolgen lives in Montreal (Quebec, Canada). Audiokinetic sculptor, he works starting from the relationship between sound and image creating, from their divergence, works presented as installations, performances, sound sculptures, videos and cinematographic works – for example Silent Room (2005), film, installation and live performance created with the collaboration of the video artist and photographer Dominique [t] Skoltz with whom he founded in 1996 the multi-discipline cell Skoltz_Kolgen (followed by DigiMag several times in the past).

Since 2008 Herman Kolgen has inaugurated an individual path of radical interrogations about audiovisual systems. His versatile work is characterized by an approach that we could define “radiographic” towards audio and visual material, in which the dimensions of the invisible and inaudible take its’ form by manifesting itself to the spectators sight. Attracted by the organic dimension, Herman Kolgen is inspired by the internal tension that lives the matter (tras)formation; this process brings him to create works where at the center the notion of time is placed.

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