2024-05-09T20:22:46-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150414683/antoni-gaud-s-casa-batll-overlaid-with-ai-informed-artwork-by-sofia-crespo Niall Patrick Walsh 2024-01-30T11:46:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c3/c390e24e9a3bf0c7040f26c4bbb4733f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Antoni Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1989106/casa-batll" target="_blank">Casa Batll&oacute;</a> in Barcelona has served as the host for a major projection mapping artwork by Sofia Crespo over the weekend. Titled <em>Structures of Being</em>, the event drew 95,000 visitors across its showing on January 27th and 28th.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/55a6a4cfe676682b712001344cac0efd.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/55a6a4cfe676682b712001344cac0efd.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image credit: Claudia Maurino</figcaption></figure><figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3b/3bdb55000754f65887808f6c4dce2dfb.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3b/3bdb55000754f65887808f6c4dce2dfb.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Image credit: Claudia Maurino</figcaption></figure></figure><p>Created by Crespo with music by Robert M. Thomas, the project is described by organizers as &ldquo;a spectacular setting that immersed the public in the nature contained inside Casa Batll&oacute; as well as in <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/4579/gaudi" target="_blank">Gaud&iacute;'s</a> creative universe.&rdquo; Created with the aid of <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/2221366/archinect-in-depth-artificial-intelligence" target="_blank">artificial intelligence</a> and the Barcelona Supercomputer Center, the project used data on the behavior of marine currents.</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/52/52366a4727590875e10928f5d414fa42.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/52/52366a4727590875e10928f5d414fa42.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image credit: Claudia Maurino</figcaption></figure><figure><figure><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d2/d2d1b592729ec7f7867793af466d22d3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d2/d2d1b592729ec7f7867793af466d22d3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a><figcaption>Image credit: Claudia Maurino</figcaption></figure></figure><p>The artwork draws on Crespo&rsquo;s interest in the boundaries of human perception in addition to her research into Gaud&iacute;&rsquo;s own sources of inspiration. The resulting methodology saw Crespo use artificial neural networks to extract visual patterns from data inspired by the bra...</p>