UK artist John Munro has created a screen-based digital art installation to mark the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum’s Digital Tech & Innovation Expo, TRANSFORMERS, in support of the UN’s Stockholm+50 conference.
Munro, Immersive.International founder and pioneer of experiential and crypto art, created the artwork using detailed data sets that relate to the position and size of forms in different crucial ecosystems. The data illustrate the achievements and impact of the UN’s Environmental Program in key biomes over the last fifty years. As well as these successes, the installation also highlights data showing destructive trends on the extraction of raw materials over the past half a century. The installation was built using Unreel 5 with some elements rendered in Maya and Blender. It is playing through the Swedish software-based media server BLOCKS from PixiLab, running on Intel NUCs over a local network. Displayed on 5x Samsung 55" The Terrace QLED 4K Outdoor TVs.
Audio composition by sound artist Giovanni Agusta was created through 3x Seeburg i4 ceiling mounted satellites and 2 subwoofers with technical system designers and AV system integrators from Adapt.se.
The installation ran continuously from June 1-3 in Kungsträdgården St, Stockholm.