A long-duration audiovisual artwork by Balthasar Freitag.
This is one of 64 animated visuals — each paired with a 30-second fragment from a 32-minute soundscape composed from two decades of sonic memories. One piece, every 4 days. A slow journey through light, form, and sound. Background info: bfai.art
https://youtu.be/rR75WwvXtUk
In an era where digital formats are becoming increasingly shorter, louder, and faster, LUMAR stands as a deliberate counterpoint to the accelerating pace of consumption. While social media, streaming platforms, and mobile games fragment our attention and relentlessly feed our dopamine circuits, this work consciously resists.
Balthasar Freitag refuses to surrender art to the logic of algorithms. LUMAR does not chase instant gratification. It invites patience, dedication, and slowness. Unfolding over more than a year, the project reveals itself gradually, a rhythm that demands presence, not haste. Only those who wait, observe, and stay engaged will come to experience the whole.
LUMAR is an invitation to decelerate, to escape the fragmented rhythms of modern consumption, and to rediscover the meditative quality of time spent attentively. It is a quiet protest against the economy of constant stimuli, a work that does not burn brightly in an instant but glows steadily over time.
