Aquarium

Extravagant forms unfurl over a 270-degree canvas, immersing — or submerging — audiences in a kind of reverse vessel, where they find themselves on display to curious underwater giants, like goldfish peering out from a bowl.

Aquarium is an experiment in organic procedural generation, visually inspired by the ornate, spiny beauty of lionfish, the merged flora-and-fauna qualities of seadragons, and the hypnotic patterns of cuttlefish.

Tentacles and feelers reach out to and around digital avatars, mapped by Kinect sensors; as audiences touch the forms, the forms touch back. Each gesture triggers a real-time, generative composition, mixed seamlessly from two hours of original music. This mix of inputs — time, algorithms, people tracking — becomes a dance and a soundtrack, playfully co-created on both sides of the screen.

https://www.marpi.studio/exhibitions/aquarium