Salt of the World
2022
Text
Paul Carey-Kent, ‘Salt of the world’, Seisma Magazine, 8 April 2022

‘Salt of the world’
Paul Carey-Kent

The various projects of the London-based Franco-German trio Troika – formed in 2003 by Eva Rucki, Conny Freyer and Sebastien Noel – often focus on how the ‘real’ is giving way to the ‘digital’, and the consequences. Recently, though, they have set new work into a wider, additional, narrative that forms part of their ongoing project ‘Untertage’[…]
No Sound of Water
2021
Solo Exhibition
Fundación Arte Abierto, Mexico City
‘No Sound of Water’, 2020 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Evolutionary Composite
2021
Work
Silicon wafer and flint stone, with experimental archeologist Dr. James Dilley
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
No Sound of Water
2021
Work
salt, modified industrial conveyor system, cotton polyester fabric
‘No Sound of Water’, 2020 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
To See a World Through a Grain of Salt
2021
Solo Exhibition
OMR, Mexico City
‘To See a World through a Grain of Salt’, 2020 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Maybe we should stop thinking that everything always starts from the beginning
2021
Commission
We The Curious, Bristol
'Maybe We Should Stop Thinking that Everything Always Starts from the Beginning' 2021 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Poetics of Reality (Encoded)
2021
Duo Exhibition
max goelitz, Munich
Installation view | poetics of reality (encoded) | brigitte kowanz and troika | max goelitz 2021 | Photo: Dirk Tacke
The shape of a circle in the mind of a square
2020
Commission
Zealand Academy, Køge, Denmark
‘The shape of a circle in the mind of a square’, 2020 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Real Feelings: Emotions and Technology
2020
Group Exhibition
HeK (House of electronic Arts Basel), CH
'Terminal Beach', 2020 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Terminal Beach
2020
Work
Motion Capture Animation, with space weather scientist Dr. Nigel Meredith, British Antarctic Survey
‘Terminal Beach’, 2020 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Unstable Constructs
2020
Work
Photographic slide film, perspex tubes
‘Unstable Constructs’, 2020 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Reality is not always probable
2020
Work
Algorithms and coloured dice
‘Reality is not always probable’ 2020 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Irma Watched Over by Machines
2019
Work
Paintings in 16 shades of red, green and blue
‘Irma watched over by machines’ 2021 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Solid State Fiction
2018
Work
Photographs of submerged mineral gardens
‘Solid State Fiction’, 2018 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Borrowed Light
2018
Work
Photographic film in acrylic case
Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Time seen as red green blue
2018
Work
Acrylic, dia positive film, aluminium
‘Time seen as red green blue’, 2018 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Double Image
2018
Work
Photograph on DIA positive film
‘Double Image’, 2018| Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Reality is not Always Probable
2018
Work
white dice
‘Reality is not Always Probable’ 2017 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Borrowed Light
2018
Solo Exhibition
Barbican Centre, London
‘Borrowed Light’, 2018 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Borrowed Light
2018
Text
Kiki Mazzuchelli, ‘Borrowed Light’, artist book, publ. 2018

‘Borrowed Light’
Kiki Mazzuchelli

‘Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. […] today it is the territory whose shreds slowly rot across the extent of the[…]
Segment of a Sunrise
2018
Work
Perspex, photographic film
Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Compression Loss
2017
Solo Exhibition
Galería OMR, Mexico City
‘Compression Loss’, OMR, 2018 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Compression Loss
2017
Work
Jesmonite
‘Compression Loss (Venus)’, 2017 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny
Virtual Failure
2017
Work
18,900 coloured and 1 evolutionary algorithm
‘Virtual Failure’, 2017 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Corridor III: Valdemar Daa
2017
Group Exhibition
Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, DK
‘Arcades’, 2017 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Trickle Down Aesthetics
2017
Text
Greg J. Smith, ‘Trickle Down Aesthetics – Cellular Automata in recent works by Troika’, 28 February 2017

‘Trickle Down Aesthetics’
Greg J. Smith

Cellular automata are one of the classic techniques of deriving algorithmic form, and for good reason – they o!er a great return on investment. Spawning complex and unpredictable 2D patterns from simple rules, they are the type of system that many programmers play[…]
All Colours White
2016
Work
Aluminium, copper, motor, LEDs
Life and Death of an Algorithm
2016
Work
dice, evolutionary algorithm
‘Life and Death of an Algorithm’, 2016 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Limits of a Known Territory
2015
Solo Exhibition
NC-arte, Bogotá, CO
‘Limits of a Known Territory’, 2015| Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Approaching Perception 
2015
Text
Claudia Segura ‘Approaching Perception’, interview with Troika, June 2015

‘Approaching Perception’
Claudia Segura

‘If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern.’ – William Blake, The Marriage Of Heaven and Hell Perception has been one of the most questioned concepts in the history of art. In its origins, altar painting wanted to simulate religious deeds as truthfully as possible so that people could[…]
Limits of a Known Territory
2015
Work
real-time simulation using water and controlled lights
‘Pink Noise’, Langen Foundation, 2024 | Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Cartography of Control
2015
Solo Exhibition
Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, US
'Cartography of Control', 2014 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Cartography of control 
2014
Work
Electric current on Hahnemühle paper
‘Cartography of Control’, 2014 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny
Dark Matter
2014
Work
Wood, aluminium, black flock
‘Dark Matter’, 2014 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
Electroprobe Installation
2014
Work
electronic objects, magnetic microphone, turntable
’Electroprobe Installation #5’, 2014| Troika (Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel)
Hierophany
2013
Work
Evolutionary algorithm and dice
’Hierophany’ 2013 | Troika (Eva Rucki, Sebastien Noel, Conny Freyer)
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