Structures of Being
Casa Batlló, designed by Antoni Gaudí, is a beautiful house in Barcelona teeming with natural forms.
The Casa Battló team invited Sofia Crespo to present a projection mapping piece that integrated with the building and with Gauidi's work.
Sofia very kindly invited me to contribute a 30 second sequence to the project, and provided vital art direction and guidance during development.
Her piece traces the journey of Gaudi's life and work. The sequence I contributed was an attempt to depict his embrace of natural form.
The entire piece integrated closely with music by generative composer Robert Thomas.
Across several showings in January 2024, around 100,000 people viewed the show in person.
Collaboration with Sophia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick. Full video and credits.
CUDA, C++, OpenGL, NanoVDB
Early exploration
Egg and Arch concepts
Drew Zeiba writes in Document Journal:
"One of the most exciting moments of Structures of Being sheds imagery as inputs and uncovers something more essential, indeed nearly 'natural,' in the process of digital-image generation itself.
At first I took it as imagery trained from MRIs, or maybe scans of bacterium–colored waves and rods bulging and morphing.
However, the movement had no image-signal. Generative Artificial Life, as the process is known (here done by artist Arsiliath), creates AI imagery from the shader noise of GPUs themselves; rather than being abstract, it's perhaps the most literal digital media can get."
Stories from the performance
