Memor by Lumus Instruments and Dammes Kieft
- katazynajankovska
- Apr 18
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 29
The installation featured in the film directed by Dutch filmmaker Dammes Kieft was created by Lumus Instruments, the multidisciplinary studio powered by the combined talents of Timo Lejeune, Julius Oosting, and Timothy Hendriks. Their visionary art combines light, sound, engineering, and creative coding to create multisensory landscapes that engage and inspire their audience, challenging their perception of space and time. Lumus Instruments’ projects are highly collaborative and sometimes feature fellow artists and filmmakers. Their works appeared in digital art exhibitions, concerts, and festivals, as well as brand activation and placemaking campaigns.
The title of the short film is the Latin adjective mĕmŏr, meaning ‘mindful’, or ‘unforgetting’, representing the artists’ intention to invite the viewer to reflect upon the need to preserve the meaning of memory in a high-paced society. Memor symbolizes the journey of the mind from scattered glimpses of memories from the past to a luminous vision. Lumus Instruments and Kieft believe in a future where - rather than pushing upon us a hectic, meaningless lifestyle - technology has a positive synergic impact on the human experience. For Koelhuis Eindhoven, Memor is also a visual metaphor for the transformative experiences that the venue will offer its future visitors through immersion in space, light, and sound. At the same time, Memor also represents the approach that Koelhuis Eindhoven will apply to the renovation of the building: mindful of the industrial past and projecting into a luminous future as the new hub for curiosity and contemporary culture.
Memor plays with the rhythmic space and futuristic retro atmosphere of the building. The work represents everything Koelhuis Eindhoven stands for - cross-seeding of different art forms, media, and technology, collaboration, accessible culture, and a glocal approach aimed at enriching the local cultural landscape while connecting it to the global movement of new media art and immersive technologies.