2024-12-03T13:38:07-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/142842054/refik-anadol-s-new-data-sculpture-unveiled-at-the-som-designed-350-mission-in-san-francisco Nicholas Korody 2015-12-07T20:12:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/to/toz3wafr23wqj9v9.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The first permanent publicly-viewable artwork by <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/114130154/art-architecture-refik-anadol-at-walt-disney-concert-hall" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Refik Anadol</a>, a media artist known for his immersive, site-specific light installations, was recently unveiled in San Francisco.&nbsp;<em>Virtual Depictions: San Francisco,&nbsp;</em>a series of "data sculptures" based on a publicly-available <a href="https://data.sfgov.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">dataset</a>, occupies a 40 ft. screen in the lobby of <a href="http://www.som.com/projects/350_mission_street" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">350 Mission</a> and involved collaborations with the building's architects, <a href="http://archinect.com/som" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Skidmore, Owings and Merill</a>, and developer,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.kilroyrealty.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kilroy Realty</a>.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/cv/cv9ejla6fftafw5f.jpg"><br><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/x0/x0o2w04ssyzefkrx.jpg"></p><p>"The ambient qualities of urban ecologies, as we as civilizations create them in specific geographic locations, are coming to the forefront of cultural production," Anadol told Archinect. "With the advent of digital media and&nbsp;environmental consciousness we now are able, more so than any at other point in human history, to access the formal qualities of the ambient environment in terms of the built, social and natural environments."&nbsp;</p><p>"Through sensors, databases, and visualization we can collect information on the real-time dynamics of citie...</p>