Felix Hardmood Beck

Hearts unite and swords decay,

Love, not war, is our way to play.

The Green Weave

Preserving Rural Artforms and Creating Circular
and Sustainable Production Practices in rural India.

2022/06 – 2024/04

research, garment production, environmental footprint, DharmaLifeLabs

Design meets Nursing – Nursing meets Design.

A 2 year long funded research project to study inter-professional collaboration of nursing and design.

2022/06 – 2023/10

research, inter-professional collaboration, interdisciplinary learning, nursing, design,

Purrfelinus Alpha

A remote feline entertainment system generates real-time cat memes.

2023/04

Cat-meme, IoT, smart object

Seven Toads.

A series of art-prints featuring individuals’ life on the country side during COVID-19 pandemic.

2021/2022

extinct species, artprints, AI, Münsterland

Workshop in a Box

Set-up and fit out of a 15’ HC shipping container as a private workshop for upcoming projects.

2021/03 – 2021/06

hobby, shipping container, workshop

Majlis of the Future

A proposal for a dynamically generated network
of meeting rooms in a virtual environment.

2022/06

research, VR, Metaverse, AI

Reactive Photowall – Etihad Museum

A 40ft wide interactive media wall shows the history of the UAE in pictures at Etihad Museum in Dubai.

2020/03

Media in Space, UX, interactive installation

Evolution of the Majlis

An AR show-case on the research results on the development of the majlis in the UAE.

2022/06

AR, installation, heritage research

Monsoon Culture Research Center

Concept to show-case an experimental boat built integrated into an open-to-public lab environment.

2020/08

concept, heritage center, research lab, exhibition

Lerchenfenster

A proposal of a »Future Living Lab« to explore sustainable residing formats for an aging population.

2022/06

research, sustainable architecture, concept, Münsterland

Wadi Al-Helo

A VR-based installation in support of Sharjah’s application to get listed as UNESCO world heritage

2018/10

research, VR, story telling, UNECSO, world heritage

Burji Al-Fanteer

Concept for a flamingo watch tower and modular boardwalk for the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi.

2019/06

concept, watch tower, sustainable architecture

Museum of Infrastructure Development

Concept for a permanent exhibition developed for UAE’s Ministry of Infrastructure development.

2018/05

concept, exhibition design

SOVAL – Better Use of Agricultural Land

Research on development and use of a sustainable, soil-ameliorating, fertilizer made of waste products.

2017/06 – 2018/06

research, soil amelioration, sustainable fertilizer, agriculture, low-cost melioration, leached soil

Traditional Weaponry Museum

Concept for using a traditional restored Emirati fortress in Ras Al Kaimah (UAE) as a museum .

2018/02

concept, exhibition design

NTSI Lab

Felix’s Lab for Narrative Technologies and Spatial Installations at NYU Abu Dhabi (since 2015).

2016/09 – 2020/08

research lab, R&D, NYUAD

Floating Cross-Sections

A prototype of a narrative tool to educate audiences about historical architectural structures.

2018/07

Pepper’s Ghost, media installation, 3D-scan

NYUAD Plastic Recycling Research Lab

An interdisciplinary design research lab with a focus on getting and sharing a holistic view onto global issues that relate to plastic and plastic recycling.

2018/01 – 2020/09

Precious Plastic, research lab, cradle to cradle

Narrative Coordinates

Concept of an audio-visual media station, sharing multiple research layers based on oral history.

2018/07

media installation, 3D-scan, 3D-model, projection

Mirage

An artistic installation based on superimposed noise patterns generated through visual encryption algorithms.

2019/10

visual encryption, noise pattern, printed pixel

Crossroads

An attempt to use the volume of the FIESP building (Sao Paolo, Brazil) as a large section scanner to visualise structures of architectural heritage.

2016/10 – 2017/06

media facade, 3D display, architecture, global heritage sites

Communal Memory

Hand-drawings are multiplied over each other to create merging visuals of a heritage site.

2018/10 - 2019/12

Hand drawings, memories, oral history, heritage

Sealevel Change Demonstrator

A prediction on the status of Abu Dhabi’s shoreline up to the year 2300 based on mathematical models and high emissions scenarios.

2019/10

research, simulation, climate change, water level, media installation

Gravel

A particle system using openFrameworks to simulate visual effects of sand particles.

2018/12

research, sand, simulation, openFrameworks, particle stream, creative coding

Interactive Climate Stations

Three reactive climate stations for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.

2015/06

climate simulation, projection mapping, media stations, ART+COM Studios

The Visuals into Auditory Images Transformer

A back-projected translucent speaker array functions as a membrane transforming lightwaves into soundwaves.

2013/01

workshop, audio-visual installation, sound + pixel = soxel

Saltation

The concept for a kinetic installation that features the drift of sand particles over time.

2019/06

desertification, kinetic installation, sand, dune, movement

Sharjah Octagon

An octagonal chandelier compiled in a workshop with students from American University of Sharjah.

2014/04

workshop, sculpture, light

Framed Orchestra

A tool for auditory compositions to awake memories and create individual images in the mind of the respective listener.

2013/05

Audio installation, sound + pixel = soxel, art

Holi Hé

A reactive floor projection refering to the trace of colours people leave behind during Holi – the Indian Festival of Colours – in Mumbai, India.

2016/03

camera tracking, floor projection, media installation

High 5

Concept for a contemporary metropolitan architecture using five 40′ shipping container.

2011/08

concept, architecture, shipping container

Soxels – An Auditive Media Facade

The Prototype of a 5m speaker wall feeding in live pictures to control the position of sound output.

2010/06

auditive media facade, 1000 speakers, sound + pixel = soxel

Royal Jelling

Concept and realisation of an experience-rich permanent exhibition on Vikings in Denmark.

2013 – 2015

exhibition design, vikings, ART+COM Studios

T-Gallery

Design Direction for ART+COM Studios for concept and realisation of the T-Gallery Future Forum of Deutsche Telekom.

2008 – 2010

show-room, Media in Space, ART+COM Studios

Mategon

A redesign of the traditional Yerba-mate drinking vessel.

2012/05

New Media Accessory, geek tool, CNC, wood, polygons, product design

F-Light

Case study for an OLED lamp.

2013/09

concept, product design, lamp, OLED

Eyelight Dot Me – Little Brother is watching you

An experimental object that simulates the end node of a global surveillance system in your home.

2009/06

media art, demonic monocular, thing that thinks, LED-lamp, smart object, IoT

E27 + More

An update to the ubiquitous E-27 screw: a basis setup for media installations in space and many bright applications to come…

2013/10

workshop, IoT, smart object, Arduino Nano

Inkdrops to the Origins

A media-based interactive art installation for the Hansol Museum (Wonju, South Korea).

2011/11

interactive installation, paper, sculpture, ART+COM Studios

Zoanthroid

A kinetic object to emulate a bioautomaton.

2011/02

kinetic object, tech-organism, audio, media-art, Meisterschüler, UdK Berlin

Augmented 3D-exhibits

An installation using AR to introduce to products and machinery of Reifenhäuser Group.

2013/10

AR, iPad app, 3D-prints, industrial fair, ART+COM Studios

Evolution of a Tuning Fork

A series of laser-cuts and a capacitive tuning fork as sculptural art work .

2012/01

tech-organism, audio, sculpture

Living Cartography

A dynamic map provides information on the specific flora, fauna and geology of the region of Vatnajökul National Park (Iceand).

2010/07

media installation, interactive map, ART+COM Studios

Touchable Trains

Two media installations reveal insights into the high speed technologies of Bombardier trains.

2008/11

media installation, projection, industrial fair, ART+COM Studios

BeBerlin Interactive Map

Berlin-shaped, four-square-metre interactive media-table that displays information on history, interesting places and cultural sites.

2009/01

interactive map, media table, ART+COM Studios

Formation of Hamburg

An interactive media table to allow visitors to undertake an interactive journey through time and space, exploring the development of Hamburg.

2012/06

media installation, interactive map, history mapping, ART+COM Studios

Baltic-Sea Mediatable

An interactive media table on topics all around the Baltic-Sea for the German Oceanographic Museum.

2008/07

media installation, interactive map, information visulisation, ART+COM Studios

Geø Cane

A technological interpretation of a traditional walking-cane becomes an instrument to be used to embrace new and unknown paths.

pilgrimage, GPS, geolocation, tactile interface, haptic feedback, Diplom, Digitale Klasse, UdK Berlin

2007/01 – 2007/06

Digital Camera Obscura (V01 - V04))

Four different iterations of digital pinhole cameras were developed be Felix Beck at the University of the Arts Berlin from 2004-2007.

2004/06

camera obscura, digital photography, camera hardware, UdK Berlin

ccuadra Tisch

An open-source wooden quadratic table that can be pulled apart to be rearranged in several variations.

2010/10

open-source, creative common license, product design

My little Soundbombs

A series of handmade sound-objects to record audio and then activate it through a motiondetector.

2006/04

audio object, New Media Accessory, non visual graffiti

iRauch – Highway to Heaven

A device that proposes an update to sacral liturgy.

2006/06

sacral design, inscent, USB, hardware, Digitale Klasse, UdK Berlin

The Hackset (Hack Check & Hack Stop)

An alarm light docked to the networks ethernet wire warns from unauthorised access. A Buzzer gives the option to manually interrupt the connection.

2006/06

hacking, alarm light, hardware, scareness-awareness, Digitale Klasse, UdK Berlin

Workbook 2 – Earning as a student

Examples of commissioned visualisations, small design projects and paid jobs to finance my life and projects during Felix’s studies at UdK Berlin.

2002–2007

architecture, exhibition design, visualisations, Photoshop

The Visualizer

A temporary pavilion examining social communication between strangers.

2003/09

concept, spatial design, Klasse Ausstellungsdesign, UdK Berlin

VR Port

Concept for the German Computer Game Museum of a simulation of a computer generated world (the „matrix“) in the physical world.

2004/09

VR, exhibition concept, Computer Museum Berlin, Klasse Ausstellungsdesign, UdK Berlin

Betonia Colonia

A monolithic concrete floor lamp as a statement against cheap and disposable seasonal furniture.

2004/09

product design, lamp, concrete furniture

Puerta Conectora

A virtual door to connect the city centres between Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (both Canary Islands, Spain).

2005/01

concept, media installation, competition, Canary Islands, Universidad de La Laguna

Workbook 1 – Learning as a student

A wild mixture of unrelated works from the student days at the Berlin University of the Arts.

2002–2007

UdK Berlin, student work