Archinect - News2024-11-21T12:46:11-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150414683/antoni-gaud-s-casa-batll-overlaid-with-ai-informed-artwork-by-sofia-crespo
Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló overlaid with AI-informed artwork by Sofia Crespo Niall Patrick Walsh2024-01-30T11:46:00-05:00>2024-10-25T04:07:38-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/c3/c390e24e9a3bf0c7040f26c4bbb4733f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Antoni Gaudí’s <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1989106/casa-batll" target="_blank">Casa Batlló</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&enlarge=true&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/55a6a4cfe676682b712001344cac0efd.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&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&enlarge=true&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3b/3bdb55000754f65887808f6c4dce2dfb.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&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 “a spectacular setting that immersed the public in the nature contained inside Casa Batlló as well as in <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/4579/gaudi" target="_blank">Gaudí's</a> creative universe.” 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&enlarge=true&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/52/52366a4727590875e10928f5d414fa42.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&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&enlarge=true&w=1028" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/d2/d2d1b592729ec7f7867793af466d22d3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=514"></a><figcaption>Image credit: Claudia Maurino</figcaption></figure></figure><p>The artwork draws on Crespo’s interest in the boundaries of human perception in addition to her research into Gaudí’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>