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    WDCH DREAMS

    Project commissioned by Los Angeles Philharmonic to celebrate their centennial season; consisted of an experiential live public art performance on the exterior of WDCH, that ran in September 2018, and an accompanying installation inside the Gershwin Gallery that ran September 2018 – September 2019.

    From project brief:
    The Los Angeles Philharmonic collaborated with media artist Refik Anadol to celebrate our history and explore our future. Using machine learning algorithms, Anadol and his team has developed a unique machine intelligence approach to the LA Phil digital archives – 45 terabytes of data. The results are stunning visualizations for WDCH Dreams, a project that was both a week-long public art installation projected onto the building’s exterior skin (Sept 28 – Oct 6, 2018) and a season-long immersive exhibition inside the building, in the Ira Gershwin Gallery. More info: http://bit.ly/WDCHDreams

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    01: Credits

    Client: Refik Anadol Studio LLC

    Team: LA Philharmonic, Google AMI, AnalogNative, Bahadır Dağdelen, David Gann, Gökhan Doğan, Kenric McDowell, Kerim Karaoglu, Kyle McLean, Parag K. Mital
    Robert Thomas, Ross Goodwin, schnellebuntebilder, Yusuf Emre Kucur

    02: Details

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    Date:
    October 14, 2018

    To actualize this vision, the team employed 42 large scale projectors, with 50K visual resolution, 8-channel sound, and 1.2M luminance in total. The resulting patterns, or “data sculptures” formed by the machine’s interpretation of the archives are displayed directly onto the undulating stainless-steel exterior of Walt Disney Concert Hall.

    Inside Walt Disney Concert Hall, in the Ira Gershwin Gallery, is an immersive and interactive companion installation, offering a unique, one-on-one experience for each gallery visitor. The exhibition presents the entire LA Phil digital archives in a non-linear fashion. The visitor, via a touchscreen interface, can interact with the archives in multiple ways: via a sunburst timeline; through curated moments highlighting milestones in the LA Phil’s 100-year history; and by delving into to the entire data universe that can be uniquely manipulated by each gallery visitor. The space will be re-imagined as a mirrored U-shaped room with two-channel projection. Visuals will be projected onto the mirrored surface giving the visitor a truly immersive, 360-degree experience.

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