CUI BONO

Daniel Rautenbach

CUI BONO is a research project and interactive light installation exploring cultural production through the spatial relations of cultural organisms and ecosystems. Using a model of immersive LED panels that react to participants’ various movements – in some ways how much space they take up, and in other ways how much energy or ‘cultural activity’ they provide – CUI BONO gives user’s the opportunity to visualize and spatially experience an organism (the user) entering an ecosystem (the installation).

About the artist: Daniel Rautenbach is a cultural practitioner with proven experience in spatial experiences, curation and design. Daniel moved to New York during the pandemic to learn more about technology, interaction and light. He has worked on all kinds of exhibitions from large scale museum graphics and installations to small DIY hacks, and designed publications all along the way. An interest in the politics of culture and its manifestations of power has led Daniel to marrying design, curating, and technology into an ongoing study of the spatial user experience; using sight, symbol, and the senses.