Selected Exhibitions

2016 "SMARTSLAB," Palazzo Clerici, Milan. 2015 "Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau," Swiss Institute, New York. 2015 "ROBOCHOP," CODE_n, Hannover. 2014 "BIG DATA," CODE_n, Hannover. 2012 "R18 ULTRA CHAIR PUBLIC BETA," Palazzo Clerici, Milan. 2012 "MULTITHREAD," Nilufar Gallery, Milan. 2010 "Hyperlinks," The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago. 2010 "OUTRACE," Trafalgar Square, London Design Festival. 2009 "THE DOUBLE CLUB," Fondazione Prada, London. 2009 "Just in: recent acquisitions from the collection," MOMA, New York. 2008 "VTOL: Vertical Takeoff and Landing," Lichtenstein Palace, Vienna. 2008 "Economies of Scale," Sotheby's, Vienna. 2008 "Flexibility," Ex-Carceri/Le Nuove, Turin. 2008 "VENDÔME," Design Miami/ Basel, Basel. 2007 "30-Year Anniversary show of the Permanent Collection," Centre Pompidou, Paris. 2006 "BREEDING TABLES," Tank Installation, Design Museum, London. 2005 "Jung & Deutsch," Goethe Institut Berlin and Tokyo. 2005 "La Raccolta," Spazio Krizia, Milan. 2004 "Content," Nationalgallerie Berlin, Germany. 2003 "Architecture, Media, Industrial Design for PRADA," Ospedale degli Innocenti, Florence. 2001 "Stealing Eyeballs," K/Haus & Museum in Progress, Vienna.

Selected Clients & Consultancies

About

Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram’s work redefines cutting edge design. They have been referred to as “the vanguard of the next generation of digital designers” (FORM magazine) and “the poster boys of a new breed of designers” (International Herald Tribune). Their projects span from software development to process design, from product design to architecture. Weisshaar and Kram’s work focusses on the vanishing line between the digital and the physical, always remaining committed to “redesigning design” (Arch+ magazine).

Clemens Weisshaar (DE) was born in Munich. After an apprenticeship as a metal worker he studied product design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and the Royal College of Art in London and was an assistant to Konstantin Grcic for three years before founding his first office for design in 2000.

Born in the United States, Reed Kram (SE, US) now lives and works in Stockholm. He studied computer science and design at Duke University and MIT where he co-founded the Aesthetics and Computation Group led by John Maeda at the Media Lab. Kram won the Fulbright for Art & Design for the Netherlands in 1998 and started his first office for design in 1999.

Their work has been exhibited worldwide and can be found in the permanent collections of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Contact

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Office North

Kram/Weisshaar AB
Söder Mälarstrand 17
11820 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Office Atlantic

Kram/Weisshaar Atlantic, LDA
Rua Francisco José o Caturrinho nº 18
A Bairro da Estação de Grândola
7570-261 Grândola
PORTUGAL

Hypersky

The installation HYPERSKY is a 21st Century digital fresco, seamlessly integrated into the entrance hall ceiling of a private residence. An augmented reality skylight, HYPERSKY reveals all natural and man-made phenomena above the house in realtime: birds and weather patterns; position, origin and destination of airplanes; location, speed, altitude and owner of satellites, stars, constellations and galaxies.

HYPERSKY does not require human interaction beyond observation. Each mode of video imagery displayed on the giant LED screen provides the viewer with a further layer of reality that would otherwise remain unrevealed. This imagery is created by converting data into video animations, so that natural phenomena and man-made objects combine to create a multilayered visual collage in an unprecedented real time experience.

Size3 x 4m

MaterialsLED DISPLAY 5mm PITCH BLACK FACE, Aluminium Structure, Roof mounted sensors including Beacon Catcher, Rain Sensor, Wind Sensors, High definition Camera, Computers, Custom developed Computer Code

Date2009

LocationCologne

Throughout the day HYPERSKY displays a live video feed of the sky above the house including all weather and light changes and the flight patterns of birds and airplanes.

In the hours of darkness HYPERSKY automatically switches to a view of the stars in the night sky. Due to the light pollution that masks the stars and planets above most cities, their coordinates are calculated and animated in real time on the screen in order to create a live map of the astronomical conditions above.

Throughout the day HYPERSKY displays a live video feed of the sky above the house including all weather and light changes and the flight patterns of birds and airplanes.

During heavy winds HYPERSKY automatically switches to a thermodynamic visualization of the wind currents streaming around the house.

During rainfall HYPERSKY shows abstract displays of rain drops falling onto a virtual liquid surface.

During heavy winds HYPERSKY automatically switches to a thermodynamic visualization of the wind currents streaming around the house.

During rainfall HYPERSKY shows abstract displays of rain drops falling onto a virtual liquid surface.

A radar system picks up signals sent by airplanes, revealing their current position, origin and destination.

A satellite tracking system confers with online databases to show the location, speed, altitude and owner of each satellite as it passes by, hundreds of kilometers in space.

A radar system picks up signals sent by airplanes, revealing their current position, origin and destination.

A satellite tracking system confers with online databases to show the location, speed, altitude and owner of each satellite as it passes by, hundreds of kilometers in space.