MARIS
2024
MSC Terminal AA/AAA, PortMiami, Miami FL
Real-time Oceanic Data,
Fluid Dynamics 3D Animation,
Interior Smart Glass Facade Projection Mapping,
Exterior Façade LED programming
Commissioners:
Art in Public Places,
Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Miami-Dade Seaport (PortMiami)
Maris is both a tangible and symbolically meaningful beacon – a “Lighthouse” -where the cycles of departure and return are emblematic of the ebb of tides with each evening event, emphasizing the symbiotic relationship between human life and ocean life.
Informed by current social and environmental discourses around the human relationship to the oceans currently being investigated in contemporary art,
Maris embraces the concept of Oceanic Imaginaries, a philosophy which
Views the oceans as “sensors” that “feel, react and create”
and
Distinctly identifies “critical zones” that ask us to collectively re-imagine how we think and act.
Presented every evening at sunset, state of the art innovations in media architecture activate a dynamic, generative, 3d animation environment in real-time, communicating oceanic life to the citizenry and visitors of surrounding Miami.
The first-of-its-kind permanent commission employs an 18-projector array across a 370’ L x 53’H (113m L x 16m H), 10,816 square feet (1105 sq meters) footprint smart glass façade.
REGIONAL OCEANIC DATASETS will shape and drive a dynamically shifting animated terrain, influencing color, force, pacing and lifespans, inspiring a SYMBIOTIC ENVIRONMENT.
What Stories does this living DATA Contain?
How do we Orient ourselves towards a Fluid Future?
CREATING A TRANSFORMATIVE SPACE OF METAMORPHOSIS
Through a virtual infrastructure, the Translation and Transmission of regional Oceanic data sets amplifies invisible aspects of the oceanic biosphere impacted by the Anthropocene.
Inspiring a sanctuary of biodiversity, the projection mapping approach embraces the monumental scale of the architecture environment as its own ecosystem to create a living, virtual aquatic terrain reflecting Miami-Dade County’s deep relationship to the Oceanic expanse.