MONOCOLOR alias Marian Essl is an audiovisual artist from Vienna. In his performative and installative works, he explores the interrelationships between sound and image. His entirely generative, algorithmically generated images oscillate between flowing, organic textures and architectural structures. His focus is on the relationship between sound, image, light and space and he aims to create highly immersive audiovisual universes. His works are shown in various contexts around the world. In 2020, he was awarded the Japan Media Arts Festival New Face Award for his audiovisual fulldome performance Latent Space, created during a residency at the Société des arts technologiques (SAT) in Montréal. In 2024, he opened his solo exhibition SCREEN-SPACE in Krems, Austria.

Exchange institution: Djerassi Woodside, CA
Residence: September/October 2024