WILD WEAK ELECTRONICS: Discover Experimental Solar Installations at Mensa am Park
Until Monday, 12 May 2026, visitors to Mensa am Park can experience the exhibition »WILD WEAK ELECTRONICS«. Developed in the workshop of the same name at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the installation combines hand-built circuits and electromechanical elements that react to changing light conditions.
In the workshop »Wild Weak Electronics«, participants explored a different scale of technology—one powered not by abundance, but by scarcity. Instead of relying on stable, high-energy systems, they worked with tiny solar cells, harvesting minimal and ever-changing light from the surrounding environment. What emerged here was not efficiency, but sensitivity.
The objects displayed in the foyer windows are the result of that exploration. Hand-built circuits and small electromechanical elements gather faint light, store it briefly in capacitors, and release it in small bursts of sound and movement. This constant cycle of charging and discharging creates irregular rhythms and subtle behaviors that shift with changing light conditions—passing clouds, time of day and shadows. Electricity here is not continuous or controlled, but intermittent, reactive, and alive.
Each module is developed individually, then combined into a shared installation. Together, they form a loose network of interactions: signals interfere, rhythms drift in and out of sync, movements echo or disrupt each other. There is no central control—only a continuous negotiation between components, stored energy, and the environment.
This exhibition invites you to slow down and notice subtlety. To observe how small amounts of energy accumulate and unfold over time. To listen closely to systems that do not shout, but whisper.
Hosted by the Professorship »Interface Design« as part of the project module »Batteries Not Included – Solar Energy as Artistic Material«
Participants: Aysenur Eryilmaz, Nika Anouk Biermann, Timo Buhl, Rory John Forbes Doyle, Zarina Iarkhamova, Johannes Kretzschmar, Juyoun Oh, Melek Nur Kanau, Seoyeon Lee, Tsz Ching Pak, Konstantin Schoser, Mengzhu Shi, Maria Smirnova, Lauren Walker and Vanshika Yadav.
WILD WEAK ELECTRONICS
Exhibition duration:
4 May – 12 May 2026
Location:
Foyer, Mensa am Park
Marienstraße 15b
99423 Weimar
Opening hours:
Accessible during the regular opening hours of Mensa am Park.