The WERC Artist Talks are lively evenings full of inspiring chats with WERC's favourite new media artists. The following interview with François Wunschel was the sixth edition of this event and can be viewed here. We talked about the beginnings of MadMapper, how to cope when big live events go wrong, and planting trees in the place of art installations. 

Born 1978, Francois Wunschel fell into the realm of computing when he was a teenager. He made his first video game at 14, but graduated from architecture school. He successfully merged his passion and his studies by founding the studio 1024 architecture with his friend Pier Schneider.

Since then, the studio has focused on creating and producing audiovisual installations, fusing architecture and the visual arts in an internationally recognized body of work. From small-scale objects intended for indoor exhibitions to monumental installations in the public space, what distinguishes 1024 works is their unique approach to space through the tools of geometry, light, sound, and movement.