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A China of Many Senses (2012)
Todd Berreth and Bill Seaman
software mural / architectural projection
custom real-time generative software, written in C++/OpenGL
digital video/image/audio/3d model source material

documented at Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC, USA, February 2012
three Christie Roadster 18k lumen projectors
illuminating an overall wall surface of 3500 sf (32? x 120?).

also exhibited at:
China Museum of Science and Technology, Beijing, China
IEEE VisWeek Art Show, Providence, RI, USA

catalog notes...
"The artwork is driven by a software engine, written in C++ and OpenGL. In real-time, it recombinately composes a library of disparate elements, video and image content, 3d models and musical passages, into an evocative dynamic collage, media landscape and hyper-constructed assemblage. A China of Many Senses specifically juxtaposes imagery from China's past and present, highlighting the tension of a country rapidly becoming the world's industrial powerhouse, while coexistently maintaining many of its ancient modes of existence. It frames, orders and builds with these materials, using a vocabulary and grammar of designed behaviors and construction typologies, diagramming and displaying the permutations with standard modes of architectural representation. The effect is to create a projected virtual space with a dizzying sense of logic, scale and balance - an imagined organic and built landscape at once both regimentally ordered and colossally haphazard, filled with both epic and intimate construction and permeated with history.

A China of Many Senses explores the aesthetic potential of utilizing standard architectural visualization techniques and an algorithmically modulated, database-driven virtual environment to create a dynamic poetic space, which may provide suggestive and often unexpected insights into an incredibly relevant and interesting contemporary condition."