Regenerative Symphony

“Regenerative Symphony” is an immersive installation investigating the desirable future of critical minerals, which are rare essential building blocks of emerging technologies. The project utilises synthetic and natural material data through a custom AI model for regenerative purposes, imagining a future between 2030-2050 in which humankind is purely dependent on recycling critical minerals, rather than extracting them from the landscape, challenging the current extreme difficulty of recycling critical minerals on a social and microscopic level. The project prototype results in a generative projection artwork that focuses on revealing the beauty of reuse through the metaphor of sound symphonies, manifested as an immersive audiovisual canvas which can be adjusted by visitors through predictive future data of material resources via feeding parameter prompts on an iPad.

Studio Above&Below
“There is always the same amount of visual and audio material within the composition. The audience prompts an algorithm and machine through changing market demands, material innovation, and environmental regulations. This influences and controls the material properties throughout each of its life cycles, affecting properties such as the speed at which a unit (mineral) passes through space, as well as parameters like viscosity, adhesion, and cohesion, making each unit part of a collective whole.”