Benjamin Samuel Koren

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Benjamin Samuel Koren (* 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German architect , artist and musician. He heads the company One to One (also 1: One ) and works as an artist under the stage name Benjamin Samuel . He lives and works in New York .

Life

Benjamin S. Koren grew up in Frankfurt am Main and in Miami, USA . He studied architecture, film and music at the University of Miami , the New York University of the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. In 2005 he received a Bronze Medal Commendation at the President's Medal Awards of the Royal Institute of British Architects for his student project Harmonic Proportion in Amorphic Form: A Music Pavilion in Hyde Park, London . He worked for the Advanced Geometry Unit of the British engineering firm ARUP in London and for the architects Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and Hamburg.

In 2009, Koren founded One to One in Frankfurt am Main. He worked with his company for eight years on the acoustic inner skin, the so-called "white skin", of the Great Hall of the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. In 2016 he opened a branch of the company in New York.

Visual arts

Under the artist name "Benjamin Samuel", Koren creates works of art, sculptures and light installations.

His series of light installations with the title Arrays of Light deals with pairs of images that draw from the cultural fundus and contemporary history by compressing tens of thousands of data, notes, still images, literary texts, comic strips or daily stock exchange prices using programmed computer algorithms. In 2011 the German Film Museum in Frankfurt acquired its two light installations, Hitchcock 30 and Kubrick 13 + 9 + 10 , a condensation of 283,500 still images from 30 films by Alfred Hitchcock and 107,445 still images from 13 films by Stanley Kubrick .

In his two works Goldberg Variations 30 + 2 and Diabelli Variations 33 translated the entire notes of the two musical variation works with a total of 75,730 lines of MIDI code from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations and 67,770 lines from Ludwig van Beethoven's Diabelli Variations .

In the two works Deutscher Aktienindex 30 + 1 and Dow Jones Industrial 30 + 1 he translated the stock market values ​​of the German and US stock markets in the crisis year 2008. In the two works Shakespeare 36 and Poe 69½ he translated the entire text of the first folio Edition of William Shakespeare's dramas and all of the accomplished stories by American writer Edgar Allan Poe .

In 2015 his solo exhibition Arrays of Light took place in the Heussenstamm-Galerie operated by the Heussenstamm Foundation in Frankfurt am Main . In 2015 a catalog of works on this series was published by DISTANZ Verlag Berlin.

Koren's series of sculptures with the title Harmonics is based on the software program Formensynthesizer , which uses basic harmonious rules to create geometric bodies in space. The shapes of the sculptures are based on vibration relationships based on the Fibonacci number sequence and the golden ratio .

Publications

  • Arrays of Light . Work catalog. Distance Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95476-126-5
  • ... like the rings of Saturn . In: Henry Keazor (ed.): Hitchcock and the arts . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2013, pp. 33–47, ISBN 978-3-89472-828-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DISTANZ Publisher: Benjamin Samuel . ( distanz.de [accessed on January 9, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b c Expert Lecture: Benjamin Koren | Institute for Computational Design and Construction. In: icd.uni-stuttgart.de. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: Acoustics in the Elbphilharmonie: Where ten thousand tones get under the white skin. In: FAZ.NET. April 9, 2016. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Wiebke Tomescheit: The Elphi Insider - Part 1: The "white skin" is his work . In: MOPO.de . January 2, 2017 ( mopo.de [accessed January 9, 2017]).
  5. ^ A b c Benjamin Samuel: Press release exhibition opening Arrays of Light. (PDF) August 20, 2015, accessed January 1, 2017 .
  6. ^ Warp Interactive: The Presidents Medals: Winners. In: www.presidentsmedals.com. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  7. ^ AA School of Architecture: Benjamin Koren - 1: One | Computational Geometry. September 18, 2015, accessed January 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ One to One: The One to One company celebrates its five-year anniversary. (PDF) January 31, 2014, accessed January 1, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Sound architect Benjamin Koren - How does the "white skin" sound? In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . ( deutschlandradiokultur.de [accessed on January 10, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Contact | One to one. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Hitchcock 30. In: deutsches-filminstitut.de. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Tom Cheshire: Bach, mapped: 75,730 notes of 'Goldberg Variations' visualized . In: WIRED UK . (English, online [accessed January 9, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Benjamin Samuel: Beethoven and Bach looking at: Notes become pictures. (PDF) January 25, 2012, accessed January 1, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Dieter Bartetzko: The demiurge on the computer. (PDF) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, July 10, 2010, accessed on January 1, 2017 .
  15. ^ Benjamin Samuel: Shakespeare in color. (PDF) March 3, 2016, accessed January 1, 2017 .
  16. ^ Heussenstamm Foundation: Benjamin Koren: Heussenstamm Gallery. In: heussenstamm.de. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  17. ^ DISTANZ Publisher: Benjamin Samuel . ( distanz.de [accessed on January 9, 2017]).
  18. ↑ Benjamin Samuel: Harmonic Formsynthesis. (PDF) November 25, 2010, accessed January 1, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Koren, Benjamin Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, artist, musician and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main