We observe the sun and moon, converting astro-data into waves you can see.
Sound was never just something we heard.
On Saturday, it became something we watched. 🌊 🎛️

Before the physical workshop took place, in late 2025, we came together across Taiwan, Germany, and Vietnam to explore questions emerging from our individual artistic practices and shared curiosities. This process gradually assembled into a transnational initiative—one focused on knowledge exchange, collective insight, and the sharing of resources across borders.

Few of points we focus:

• Data-driven approaches
• Visual–audio experimentation
• Astronomical phenomena and cosmic narratives

CYMATICS Workshop at The Visual 084 unfolded as a live experiment—where sound carved water, code pulsed through speakers, and invisible vibrations decided to show themselves.

Together with sound artist Maria Wildeis, we stepped into the collision zone of physics, coding, and visual art. Frequencies turned liquid into geometry. Algorithms hummed. Motors listened. Light responded.

What happened wasn’t a class.
It was a reminder:
data-driven visualization is a way to extend perception,
and rethink how we understand nature.

Participants explored cymatic principles through water, built digital audio environments using Max/MSP and PureData, and stepped inside Arduino systems—where vibration meets control. Somewhere between logic and intuition, acoustic energy slipped into performance.

A huge thank-you to everyone who showed up curious, skeptical, and ready to get their hands wet: visual artists, creative coders, and all the minds working in between.

This was about learning, yes—but also about unlearning.
Unlearning the idea that data and frequency are cold or abstract, when in fact they move our bodies, stir our emotions, and carry us through invisible journeys.

Organizer: Visual084, Vietnam Media Lab
Artist: Maria Wildeis
Supported by Goethe Institut
Initiated by SUAVEART