My work explores how systems from music, code and language can generate visual structures and spatial experiences.
Rudi-Renoir Appoldt is an artist working between music, visual communication and computational systems. His work explores how structures from sound, code and language can generate images, spatial situations and performative experiences.
Trained as a musician at Berklee College of Music and working also in typography and visual communication, his practice moves between sound, generative graphics and spatial projects.
Early in his career he exhibited digital artworks exploring whether musical thinking could function as a visual system. In 2003 he realised a conceptual installation in New York centred around the word LOVE, reflecting on ideas of connection and shared experience.
Between 2014 and 2018 he founded and directed the Piano im Pool Festival Luzern (Switzerland), curating performances and collaborating with creative coders on audiovisual works.
Since 2015 he has regularly participated in the ITP Camp at NYU, exploring creative coding and experimental media. In 2024–2025 he completed the CAS AI in Creative Practice at the University Bern and ZhdK. Since 2023 he has been developing lithographic prints derived from generative Processing sketches.