Refik Anadol's new "data sculpture" unveiled at the SOM-designed 350 Mission in San Francisco
Alumnus Refik Anadol (M.F.A., Design Media Arts, '14), unveils new public work
Alumnus Refik Anadol (Design Media Arts, MFA '14), unveils his first public work this month in San Francisco. Anadol works in the fields of site-specific public art with parametric data sculpture approach and live audio/visual performance with immersive installation approach, particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts.
"The first permanent publicly-viewable artwork by Refik Anadol, a media artist known for his immersive, site-specific light installations, was recently unveiled in San Francisco. Virtual Depictions: San Francisco, a series of "data sculptures" based on a publicly-available dataset, occupies a 40 ft. screen in the lobby of 350 Mission and involved collaborations with the building's architects, Skidmore, Owings and Merill, and developer, Kilroy Realty."
"The ambient qualities of urban ecologies, as we as civilizations create them in specific geographic locations, are coming to the forefront of cultural production," Anadol told Archinect. "With the advent of digital media and environmental consciousness we now are able, more so than any at other point in human history, to access the formal qualities of the ambient environment in terms of the built, social and natural environments."
"Through sensors, databases, and visualization we can collect information on the real-time dynamics of cities: sound, light, air quality, acoustics, human movement, ecological dimensions, social preferences, and their multiplicity of interactions," he continued."
"Anadol considers his access to the data set a "critical turning point" in the development of the project. Titled, fittingly, SF Data, the platform was launched in 2009 and contains a wealth of information available for developers, residents, architects, and anyone else with an interest."— Nicholas Korody, Dec. 7
Read the full article at the Archinect website.