Johannes Girardoni & Harriet Girardoni

The Infinite Room, Washington, USA

Interior view

The Infinite Room, as seen on a recent site visit. The Infinite Room is a permanent sculpture sited in a building designed by Cooper Hewitt National Design Award recipient Tom Kundig of Seattle-based Olson Kundig architects. Lit solely through an oculus, the smooth curvilinear geometry of the sculpture scatters natural light to create a borderless space. The interior shifts in appearance with changing light conditions, giving The Infinite Room an ephemeral quality. The space appears to continually iterate new versions of itself.

The Infinite Room

Sensory Field, 2024
Milan, Italy

Sensory Field is a light-and-sound installation composed of translucent nodes that form an array of interrelated spaces. Each scrimmed volume is activated by a singular light source and spatialized sound — establishing a multi-layered environment in which luminous and acoustic phenomena are intrinsically linked.

Sensory Field 

Metaspace V2

Metaspace V2 is the first in a series of immersive sculptures that respond to participants and convert light frequencies to sound, making light audible via Spectrosonic Refrequencing (SSR). Perception is modulated through real-time sensory feedback, creating a symbiosis between sculpture and participant — at the boundary of biological and artificial cognition.

Metspace V2

Lumasonic Planes, a site-specific  installation that generates sound waves from light, as shown at the Berggruen Institute.

Lumasonic Planes, 2022

Artist Johannes Girardoni, neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, and Berggruen Institute’s
Future Humans Program Director Claire Webb converse about art, technology, and consciousness.

Lumasonic Planes, an experimental installation created by Johannes Girardoni & Harriet Girardoni with the studio team, has a basic form of sentience. It senses its own process of converting light into sound and allows participants to hear the sound of light, augmenting perception through technology. As part of the BERGGRUEN INSTITUTE x Chromasonic Series, the second collaborative Salon in November 2022 took place at the iconic Bradbury Building. The installation catalyzed a thought-provoking discussion between Girardoni, leading neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley, and Claire Isabel Webb, Associate Director of the Future Humans Theme. Together, they explored how the intersection of art and science expands our understanding of mind and cognition, shaping new philosophical perspectives on “the human” and our collective future.

Berggruen Institute x CS Series

Lumasonic Planes

Resonant – Red Violet, 2018

First exhibited at LÉVY GORVY in the artist’s survey SENSING SINGULARITY, Resonant – Red Violet is part of a series of chromatic resin sculptures that articulate a pixelated architecture in physical space, blurring the boundary between virtual and material content. Activated through Resonant Lens, a computational system that maps the visible spectrum onto sound in real time, the works allow participants to hear what they see, extending perception into an embodied, synesthetic experience.

LÉVY GORVY Sensing Singularity

A collaboration between artists Johannes Girardoni and Harriet Girardoni with architects Takashi Yanai and Steven Ehrlich, partners of EYRC, Spectral Bridge House embodies the concept of “art before architecture,” a philosophy advocated by Studio Girardoni in their projects that engage the built environment. Studio Girardoni creates site-specific projects that explore connections between art, design, technology, and architecture to pursue experiential states of radical presence.

Spectral Bridge

reVIBRATION No. 01 (rV01), 2004 – Study

In 2004, Johannes and Harriet Girardoni created a project abstract for an interactive installation that has since served as the foundation for the studio's work in the research of artificial sensing and its impact on perception and cognition. The room–size sculptural installation, embedded with sensors, is comprised of a field of repeating cylindrical elements suspended in a grid pattern. rVO1 is the first in a series of poly-sensory sculptural installations that explore the interface of space, form, sound, light, and experience.

reVIBRATION No. 01

Concept sketch for The Passage Room, 2009, ACFNY

The Passage Room, 2009, ACFNY
Scrims, Aluminum, LEDs, video projection, Spectro-Sonic Refrequencer
9.5′ (h) × 16′ (w) × 30′ (d)

The Passage Room is a site-specific light-and-sound installation — the artists’ first light-to-sound work — and an initial inquiry into the permeability of the senses. The work was commissioned by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York in 2009.

The Passage Room

Chromasonic – Yellow Pink; Resin, pigment, LEDs, aluminum;
94 × 4 × 3 in; 2013

Refrequencers, are a convergence of light and material, re-articulated into different physical forms. Made of cast resin, within which illumination from LEDs and natural light mesh to different degrees, these works appear to shift in color depending on the current light situation and the position and movement of the viewer. Refrequencers use sensors to capture the light waveforms emanating from the resin, and digitally convert the light information into a sound vibration, making light audible.

Chromasonic – Field Study, 2022. Photo: JG Studio

Chromasonic – Field Study was an experimental installation on view at The Lab at Compound, a cultural complex in Long Beach, CA dedicated to the intersection of art and community engagement. The installation algorithmically connects light and sound frequencies and served as a study for the development of the large-scale installation Chromasonic Field, which was first presented at Milan Design Week 2024 and later in the Downtown Los Angeles Arts District, where it was open to the public for the majority of 2025.

l to r: Joseph Becker
Curator of Architecture & Design @ SFMOMA
Artist Johannes Girardoni
Takashi Yanai, EYRC Architects

Johannes Girardoni & Takashi Yanai Speak on Art + Architecture with SFMOMA Architecture and Design Curator Joseph Becker

On January 31, Takashi Yanai of EYRC  joined artist Johannes Girardoni and Joseph Becker, Architecture+Design Curator at SF MoMA, for a conversation about integrating art and architecture. The trio discussed inspirations for their own works and Spectral Bridge House, a recent project by EYRC and Girardoni that blurs the lines of art and architecture.

Johannes Girardoni @ The New Museum, NYC

Johannes Girardoni received the 2019 Francis J. Greenburger Award at The New Museum, NYC. The award honors established artists whom the art world knows to be of extraordinary merit.

Presented by Alice Aycock, Charlotta Kotik, Lili Chopra, Marianne Boesky, and Anders Schroeder, the Award was also given to artists Ralph Lemon, John Newman, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, and Jennifer Bartlett. Past award recipients include Martin Puryear, Lee Bontecou, George Condo, and Bruce Conner, among others.