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Public art commission for 350 Mission Building in City of San Francisco, California.

‘Virtual Depictions:San Francisco’ is a public art project consist of series of parametric data sculptures that tell the story of the city and people around us within a unique artistic approach for 350 Mission’s media wall in collaboration with Kilroy Realty Corporation / John Kilroy and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Architects.

The main idea of ‘Virtual Depictions:San Francisco’ is to bring 21st century approach to public art to define new poetics of space through media arts and architecture and to create a unique parametric data sculptures that has an intelligence, memory and culture. Through architectural transformations of media wall located in 350 Mission’ lobby, main motivation with this seminal media architecture approach is to frame this experience with a meticulously abstract and cinematic site-specific data-driven narration. As a result, this media wall turns into a spectacular public event making direct and phantasmagorical connections to its surroundings through simultaneous juxtapositions. The project also intends to contribute to contemporary discourse of public art by proposing a hybrid blend of media arts and architecture in 21st century.

When creating this public artwork my goal was to make the invisible visible by embedding media arts into architecture to create a new way to experience a living urban space.

6MM LED Media Wall.
Custom Software, 90 minutes long dynamic visual experience in 12 chapters.
8 Channel sound.

Music for documentation: Goldmund - Threnody (Unseen-Music)
Sound Design: Kerim Karaoglu

CREDITS
Virtual Depictions: San Francisco By Refik Anadol
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Commissioned by: Kilroy Realty Corporation
John B. Kilroy, Jr.
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In cooperation with:
The City of San Francisco
Mayor Ed Lee
John Rahaim, Director of Planning
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Project Partners:
Arup
Sensory Interactive
Sansi North America
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill LLP
Webcor Builders
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
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Art Consultant:
DPA Fine Art Consulting
Deanna Postil Krawczyk – Michelle Isenberg
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Refik Anadol Studios: Refik Anadol / Efsun Erkilic / Raman K. Mustafa
Kian Khiaban / Toby Heinemann / Rob Tom Browning / Bahadir Dagdelen / Yusuf Emre Kucur
Daghan Cam / Sebastian Neitsch / Johannes Timpernagel / Sebastian Huber / Kerim Karaoglu
Studio Management by DG Hunt & Associates, LLC
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Special Thanks: Nicole Stromsness / Sarah MacIntyre / Douglas Giesey / Craig Hartman
Michael Fukutome / Eric Cole / Josh Cushner / Eric Covrig / Jason Cox / Pat Green
Julie Goodwin / Amanda Brownlee / Shannon Knuth
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Copyright 2015 Refik Anadol Studios