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Optical Earth (2024)

Date: 2024
Medium:
LED Video Walls, Android Software, 1+km Adhesive Vinyl designs, site-specific.
Dimensions:
Various, immeasurable.

OPTICAL EARTH was a large-scale video and print installation at Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, in 2024. Commissioned by Meta Media and Swire Properties as part of the HKRI Taikoo Hui public art programme, it featured over one kilometer of designs throughout the building, and live computer generated videos, from my Procedural Landscapes for Android series, on numerous video screens. This architectural intervention used one of my generative video artworks, built inside a customized video game world, as a means to produce a seemingly never-ending sprawl of printed designs over walls, windows and floors, throughout the four floors of the new building development in Shanghai. Working with a team of designers from Meta Media and an installation team of over 20 people to realize this massive installation, this project was on view for two months in Shanghai’s busiest shopping district.

OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China
OPTICAL EARTH (2024) at HKRI Taikoo Hui, Shanghai, China

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