Procedural/Portrait

Abstract

Procedural/Portrait is a 6-channel moving image ‘portrait’ of the Housemuseum Galleries. Taking over the museum’s 3D architectural models, Pailthorpe plays with digital patterns that disrupt, expand and collapse the gallery spaces as they float over a simulated version of the Western Victorian Volcanic Plains, the ancient source of the Housemuseum’s bluestone. Working with a ‘procedurally generated’ algorithm, the Galleries are subjected to a process of composition, chaos and re-composition. This allows for tens of thousands of impossible new architectural spaces to momentarily emerge within the Galleries, destabilising our usually static experience of architectural space. Show more