Benjamin Samuel Koren

Benjamin Samuel Koren (*1981 in Frankfurt) is a German architect, computer scientist, He lives and works in New York.
Biography
Koren grew up in Frankfurt and Miami. He studied architecture, film and music for his student project Harmonic Proportion in Amorphic Form: A Music Pavilion in Hyde Park, London at the President's Medal Awards of the Royal Institute of British Architects. He worked for the Advanced Geometry Unit of the British engineering office ARUP which specializes in building complex geometries. With his company, he worked eight years The interior of the hall consists of 10,000 unique gypsum fiber acoustic panels with a million acoustic 'cells' which were calculated algorithmically on the computer. The concert hall was inaugurated on Jan 11, 2017. Koren's company also worked on the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Philharmonie de Paris by French architect Jean Nouvel and the European Central Bank by .
Computer Art
He creates new media and computer art under the nom de plume 'Benjamin Samuel'. He creates visual works, sculptures and light installations. In his two works Goldberg Variationen and Diabelli Variationen he translated the entire musical notes of the two variation pieces, 75.730 lines of MIDI code of Johann Sebastian Bach's work and 67,770 lines of Ludwig van Beethoven's work. In the two works Deutscher Aktienindex and Dow Jones Industrial , he translated the stock exchange prices of German and US stock markets in the crisis year 2008. In the two works Shakespeare and Poe he translated the entire text of the first folio edition of William Shakespeare's works as well as all the complete tales of the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. In 2015, his solo exhibition Arrays of Light took place at the Heussenstamm Gallery in Frankfurt, which is run by the Heussenstamm Foundation.
Publications
"Arrays of Light" catalog of works, DISTANZ Publishers Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95476-126-5

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