Niklas Roy

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Cardboard Plotter

The cardboard plotter is a mechanical device for drawing digital images.

Roboter Reiniger

Roboter Reiniger is a little household cleaning robot which I released in Brasília.

Perpetual Energy Wasting Machine

Perpetual Energy Wasting Machine is a rope and pulley mechanism which moves an elevator continuously between the 1st and 2nd floor of a building. The system is powered by the sliding doors of the elevator.

Ping Pong Ball Suction Constr.

Ping Pong Ball Suction Construction is a pneumatic delivery system which sucks ping pong balls, visually appealing, through transparent pipes, in order to release plenty of them, at one point, right above ping pong playing people, while they do listen to country music.

Lumenoise

Light pen which turns any cathode ray tube Television into an audiovisual synthesizer.

Developed at La Gaîté Lyrique.

Wasserklang Modulsystem

Entirely mechanical sound installation where a huge water wheel drives many mini musicboxes in an expressive setup. Built together with La belle Imira at the Technikmuseum Berlin for Berlin’s museum night.

Electronic Instant Camera

An instant camera that prints directly on thermal receipt paper.

PING! - Augmented Pixel

A 70’s style videogame ball is playing with a video signal.

My little piece of Privacy

A small robotic curtain that tries to protect my privacy by being smart.

Privéfonteintjes

A series of small private fountains that are driven by the hydropower of a large public fountain.

Erstwiderstand

A constant air stream as a first barrier in the entrance of an art space.

Vektron modular

Vektron modular

Vektron modular is another experimental synthesizer. Listen to some strange zoundz after the click.

WIA < > WIA

wia wia

“WIA < > WIA”, short for “Water in Africa < > Water in Austria”, was a commissioned work for Ars Electronica. The installation, however, was a hoax. I made Ars Electronica believe that an African artist, “Melissa Fatoumata Touré”, would have connected the public well in the Mali village “Koulouninko” via the Internet with a public toilet in Linz.

Gallerydrive: The Grand Illusion

the grand illusion

GD/TGI is an instant art museum machinery. The installation utilizes the Gallerydrive and Robotik Room technology in order to create a monumental mechanic environment through which the visitor is processed.

PSP - Pocket Sound Performer

pocket sound performer

Pocket Sound Performer is a hand held, all-in-one, highly versatile sound and music production device. The instrument dissolves the boundaries of discrete music production units like samplers, synthesizers and sequencers.

Flora and Harmony

flora and harmony

Flora and Harmony is a technoid, kinetic indoor jungle, built out of common electric household devices and a structure of stage equipment.

The installation was produced in collaboration with Wojtek Kucharczyk and commissioned by Club Transmediale.

Autohonk

autohonk

Autohonk proposes an elegant and simple way to clear messy traffic situations by honking automatically, whenever the car driver has to push the brake pedal.

The work was funded by *.artlabs.

International Dance Party

international dance party

The International Dance Party is a self transforming party in a box. While the piece appears first as a plain flightcase, it transforms itself to a disco machine if visitors start to dance.

In collaboration with Adad Hannah, funded by Interstices.

Robotik Room

robotik room

Robotik Room is a self transforming machine which sets up a white cube exhibition space within seconds. The temporary room surrounds its visitors and makes them feel like they were in an art museum.

Gallerydrive

gallerydrive

Gallerydrive extrapolates the technical capabilities of an audio guide system in order to achieve an art perception experience at a maximum level of convenience. While the system drives visitors automatically through the exhibition, it also provides great possibilities for art makers to control their audience.

Dokumat 500

dokumat 500

Dokumat 500 is an autonomous documentary robot which produces hobby videos from scratch. The robot absorbs not only the technical side of film production, but also the whole creative process which often leads to unexpected results for the viewer of those automatic produced documentaries.

Grafikdemo

grafikdemo

Grafikdemo is a physical wireframe model of a teapot inside a vintage computer cabinet. The model can be rotated by pushing keys on the keyboard. Sophisticated lighting of the model makes it hard for the viewer to distinguish whether he sees a real digital model or a fake computer screen.

Pongmechanik

pongmechanik

Pongmechanik is an electro mechanical version of the early electronic tennis game Pong. It translates the virtual game back into reality. The game is controlled by a relay computer which makes every computation visible.

Teleflipper

teleflipper

Teleflipper is a closed circuit video installation, that emulates a virtual pinball game with a real 1974 Star Trek pinball machine.

Trigon

A short feature about a man who gets lost in the media.