Refik Anadol
Nicholas Boss
Efsun Erkilic
Ho Man Leung
Toby Heinemann
Kian Khiaban
Raman Mustafa
Collaborators:
Onformative
Cedric Kiefer
Thomas Kombuechen
Stefan Curow
Commissioned by:
Greenland USA in association with the Community Redevelopment Agency of the city of Los Angeles
Produced by:
Narduli Studio
Refik Anadol Studio
Art Advisor:
Isenberg and Associates, Inc, Fine Art Advisory
Project Managment:
DG Hunt and Associates
VVVV
Sebastian Neitsch
Juliana Gotz
Web Development
Onformative
Cedric Kiefer
Thomas Kombuechen
Server & API Management
Stefan Currow
Sound Design
Kerim Karaoglu
ConvergenceLA is a media installation on the façade of the Metropolis Towers in downtown Los Angeles. The canvas for the artwork is an integrated LED display, nearly 100 feet wide by 18 feet high. The artwork is a generative construct, new ways of storytelling through a platform that both expresses and responds to the spirit of Los Angeles in a seamless fusion of digital content, public space and urban life.
ConvergenceLA receives real time data from eight individual publicly available APIs and processes 4 million points of data per hour. This ever-changing cinematic narrative of Los Angeles harnesses demographic, astronomical, oceanographic, tectonic, traffic and climate data streams, social media posts and news feeds, and frames them within fragments of cultural and historical content of downtown Los Angeles. An intelligent timeline uses the incoming data to inform the generative sequencing of the artwork. While a reflection of the ongoing rhythms of the city, the collected data also holds the historical chronology of Los Angeles for the life of the artwork.
ConvergenceLA can also be explored and experienced virtually with a mobile device or on a PC. This virtual environment allows visitors to navigate through the data and experience the artwork with an audio track composed from everyday sounds of Los Angeles and its data streams.