INTERWORLD

2025

Interactive audiovisual environment · Spatial sound

Interworld - Laura Adel - Enrique Mendoza - Ars Electronica
Photo: Bogi Nagy, Sonic Saturday, Ars Electronica Festival 2025

INTERWORLD is an interactive audiovisual environment situated between material presence and virtual transformation. Emerging from remnants, debris, and geological fragments, the work brings objects, projection, and spatial sound into a coexisting, responsive system. Through direct physical contact, visitors shape both the visual and sonic dimensions of the environment.
The installation consists of six interactive objects derived from three-dimensional scans of stones—geological forms that preserve traces of the Earth’s earliest formative processes. Recreated through 3D printing, these objects reveal qualities often overlooked in their original state. Their manipulation influences virtual counterparts projected in space, while sound responds synchronously, moving within a spherical multichannel sound dome according to the object’s rotation.
Rooted in natural forms yet mediated through digital processes, INTERWORLD creates a hybrid perceptual space in which material and virtual realities reflect and transform one another.

Exhibition
  • Sonic Saturday, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AT (2025) — premiere
Credits

Concept, visuals & interactive objects:
Laura Adel

Immersive audio concept, spatial music & sound programming system:
Enrique Mendoza Mejía

Programming & interaction logic:
Laura Adel

Sensor programming support:
Dariusz Jackowski

3D scanning & 3D printing support:
Daniel Stimmeder

Technical snapshot

Format:
Interactive audiovisual environment · Spatial sound

Structure:
Six interactive objects with embedded sensors controlling sound and image

Sound:
Spherical multichannel spatial audio system

Interaction:
Physical manipulation of objects controls sound spatialisation and projected virtual forms

Installation format (variable duration)

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