Annika Hippler
Schwingungen (2012)

Luminogram series
2015 — 2024

Annika Hippler is a German artist who specialises in light kinetics and the interplay of movement and light. Her practice thus ties in with the tradition of light art. She endeavours to make transient light frequencies and wavelengths tangible by nature.

The ‘Schwingungen’ (vibrations) installation uses a line laser whose focussed light is projected over a moving water surface. A falling drop of water animates the horizontal projection, creating a reflection that reveals a relationship between the light beam and the water surface: any turbulence is also transferred to the reflection on the wall.

2016 — 2024
Adapted installation

This installation is a real-time projection of oscillations, vibrations and waves. They are created in the water basin in front of the projection surface, which is traversed by a laser. In 1960, physicist Theodore H. Maiman succeeded in generating laser light for the first time using a ruby, at that time without any concrete idea of the possible applications. Over the past decades, laser technology and its applications in industry, medicine, science, art and entertainment have become more sophisticated. Annika Hippler has been working with lasers as an artistic material since 2007. Her installation records - like a seismograph - the movements caused by the air or the surrounding people.