Markus Skraba

Sound and Media Art

About

Works

(im)permanence
Glimmers
The Popular Way
floatfloor
Striduphone
Poolbar Generator
Aquatic
Leap Motion MIDI Controller
The Scapegoat
moj mali marki
Glove FM
Armlet

Poolbar Generator

Poolbar Generator
2024
interactive visuals

Every summer, the Poolbar Festival in Feldkirch, Austria, transforms an old indoor swimming pool into a two-month-long music venue. The festival's design is created in February through the Poolbar Generator, a two-week residency inviting participants to collaborate across categories such as architecture, graphic design, spatial design, digital projects, art and literature.

For the 2024 edition, the Digital Projects Lab developed interactive visual projections. These visuals are displayed on the main festival venue at night and embody the “Hin & Weg” (“Here & Gone”) theme by reflecting the ever-changing, interconnected ecosystem created by the festival during its time. Three visual themes were created in close collaboration, each capturing a different aspect of the festival’s identity and surroundings.

My contribution to the project was to make the visuals interactive using a Kinect camera that captures the real-time movements of festival visitors and influences the visual patterns.

Shown at the Poolbar Festival 2024 in Feldkirch, (AT).

Project Credits
Luca Meusburger — Team Lead & Real-Time Visuals
Markus Skraba — Interactivity & Real-Time Visuals
Alena Joshua — 3D Design & Real-Time Visuals
Anaïs Eriksson — Real-Time Visuals
Stefan Lamprecht — Motion Design & Real-Time Visuals
Yang Ni — Real-Time Visuals