Astral Twin is a robotic, audiovisual installation that explores the tension and harmony between human-coded logic and machine-emergent behavior




Astral Twin invites viewers to witness a new kind of choreography—one where industrial precision meets organic unpredictability, and where meaning arises not from either machine or visual alone, but from the friction and feedback between them.


The LED wall surface acts like an invisible membrane between the mechanical and the virtual. It mediates the physical gestures of the robots and the generative content displayed on the pixels behind it. The screen does not merely respond—it evolves in real-time, translating fluid dynamics, pressure, motion, and rhythm into shifting fields of light, color, and form.




Format

Astral Twin II @ OFFF Montreal
During the OFFF Conference, Astral Twin created a special moment for the audience to step back and reflect while meditating the mechanical and virtual.
Astral Twin III @ We Belong Here in Brooklyn
For We Belong Here in Brooklyn, NY we reformatted Astral Twin for a massive square LED digital membrane. We used UFactory cobots running in real-time from TouchDesigner to create the ever-evolving, and never-repeating digital-to-physical interaction.
CREDITS:
Creative Direction: Kamil Nawratil
Media Architecture: Michael Schneider
Spatial Aesthetics: Zyia Zhang
Technical Direction: Javier Cruz
Generative Audio: Javier Cruz
TouchDesigner Artist: Wenyi Zhang
Creative Technologist: Matt Ross / Ben Forest
Computational Design / Robotics: Kiril Bejoulev
Production: Gilad Dor
Production Assist: Webb Hunt
Video Edit: Webb Hunt
AV: Crossfire