Waken

Generative Form/Dynamic Systems 2005
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 2005.
This is a project that won a juried competition for work that addressed art and architecture. With Waken, a multi-media installation that included sculpture, 18-channel generative sound, and 3D animation, we designed a system that would be generative across different forms: sculptural, audio, video, and spatial. We worked with metaphors of a natural system in which patters of swarming, pollination, and decay all factored into the build environment. Hive City, the sculpture fabricated from cardboard, resin, and polymers. For the sound design we used Max/MSP as the engine, with handmade speaker arrays. We reimagined the museum site was to create a calm, secluded environment for the piece.