Mass Migrations

Inspired by intricate ornaments of Japanese fighting robots, Mass Migrations is a generative, interactive, initially VR experience, presented without a headset.

Set up for multiplayer interaction via HTC Vive controllers, it allows players to collaboratively create giant, glittering compositions, bringing Cosimo Galluzzi's digital painting to life.

Each session begins with a procedurally generated sky and visual seed that can be extruded, extended, and augmented with the controllers. Using their controllers, players are able to paint in 3D space, with a different brush shape and color appearing with each trigger press.

Gestures are automatically mirrored, so a symmetrical image emerges, like the face of a Rorschach inkblot. Working side by side, players create enormous and complex mecha sculptures, strung together in rippling shapes that could be three-dimensional calligraphic flourishes, crystalline beads, or robotic vertebrae.

https://www.marpi.studio/exhibitions/mass-migrations