Schlosslichtspiele Karlsruhe Unesco City of Media Arts

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Exhibition

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Christian Kirschenmann Studio Director Workplace at Ippolito Fleitz Group

6.5

Orlando Marques Founder and Director at OMstudio Lighting

Beautiful color combination and res...

6.75

Andrea Sensoli Founder and Principal Architect at Superfuturedesign*

in our days, the need to “tickle th...

5.5

Elvira Munoz Director of Interiors and EMEA Interior Design Practice Leader of Buildings + Places at Aecom

What an original idea! The result i...

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Johan Lingner Head of Store Design at H&M

6.25

Jeff Xiong Retail Space Design Director at ANTA Sports Products

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Nazanin Naeini Exhibition Designer at Guggenheim Museum

Beautiful visuals resulting from th...

Jannis Reger Managing Director at CECON Buildings

We´ve seen so many beautiful and cr...

5.25

Monica Dalla Riva Senior Vice President design and Customer Experience at Deutsche Telekom

5.75

Maarten Jamin Founder at bs;bp

5.25

Ye Zhang Founder and Chief Architect at LZA

6.25

Qiang Yu Founder at YuQiang & Partners

5.75

Nikita Morell Founder at Architects WordShop

5.25

Location

Am Tempelhofer Berg 6, 10965 Berlin, Germany

Designer

Overlapping

Client

ZKM Karlsruhe

Floor area

2890 ㎡

Completion

2023

Budget

EUR 15.000

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Scenography

Simone Serlenga

AI+GA, an award-winning Overlapping project, aim to show abstract and molecular visuals. Referring to physic formulas to simulate dynamics fluids, boundary and coloured vortex, are inspired by the behaviour of atomic particles. Sound engages and triggers the creation of generative art, mathematical codes and object oriented programming to fuse together visual patterns and beautiful colours.

AI+GA Artificial Intelligence + Generative Art is a site-specific Overlapping concept, second-prize winner of Schlosslichtspiele Festival, produced by ZKMKarlsruhe, Unesco City of Media Arts. Considering the massive projection surface w.170m, h.17m, a total amount of 16 projectors, we focused on the use of cutting edge technology to create generative art content, using mostly TouchDesigner, a node based visual programming language for real time interactive multimedia content, that allows to design high-resolution effects through scripts and complex networks. Our design approach is to show abstract and molecular visuals, referring to physical formulas to simulate dynamics fluids with boundary and coloured vortex, and inspired by the behaviour of atomic particles, aiming to represent real life in its elementary components.

In the interplay with the façade, fluids are generated from the windows, merge into clouds framing the doors, a fast, colourful smoke reacting like incompressible elements such as water or oil, blending into a colourful nebula, transforming the façade into a dreamlike landscape. A tailor-made analog sound carpet underlines and emphasises the show, holding the narrative together and creating an uninterrupted flow of visions and atmospheres.Sound engages and triggers the creation of generative art, mathematical codes and object oriented programming to fuse together visual patterns and beautiful colours.

Artificial intelligence models are also used to generate images, feeding AI towards the target aesthetic, we craft the imaginary by smoothly switching interpolating between 2D images and the latent space, a form of motion design defined as latent dreams. An AI filter to over-scale 4x the resolution in ultrahigh definition, created an overall unanimous hi-res look. https://youtu.be/CPpGsHvFrsw?si=K_Y4t9Xz4FhPCXZb

WORDS Simone Serlenga