AI Artwork Projected on Historic Gaudí House Draws Nearly 100K People
about 3 months ago (02/11/2024)
AI Artwork Projected on Historic Gaudí House Draws Nearly 100K People Skip to content Sofia Crespo, "Structures of Being" (2024), projection mapping at Casa Batlló (photo by Claudia Maurino, courtesy Casa Batlló) BARCELONA — Architect-designer Antoni Gaudí, legend of Catalan Modernisme, is often quoted as having said, “Nothing is invented, for it’s written in nature first.” Whether or not that’s apocryphal, his legacy suggested something holier than human at work. This year, one of Barcelona’s most visited Gaudí sites, Casa Batlló, found a contemporary analog in “Structures of Being,” a new audiovisual piece by Sofia Crespo projected onto the building’s façade on January 27 and 28. Crespo, an Argentinian artist who entangles AI and machine learning with natural life forms, possesses a Gaudí sensibility about our era of digital manipulation: The aim is not to discover anything completely new, but to look at existing things in a new way.