Arizona Cycle – Marpi Studio

Remixing fantastical forms from Aquarium, Arizona Cycle brings subaquatic biologies to the edge of the Sonoran Desert.

Code: Marpi

Tech direction: Kevin Colorado

Sound design: Bent Stamnes

Documentation: Rowan Burkam

Editing: Eliza Struthers-Jobin

Producer: Jay Chen

Operations: Christian Boullon

In collaboration with: SMoCA

Part of Mutual Reality: Art on the Edge of Technology, organized by Julie Ganas at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Aquarium (Arizona Cycle) extends previous worlds into a new procedural dance.

This time, tentacles and feelers sprout from and alongside fruiting bodies on a single, large-scale canvas. Kinect sensors capture the audience's movement and gestures, entangling their digital avatars within a mass of procedurally generated, Unity built, free-floating limbs.

Launch

Mobile Touch with gyroscope

New Nature multiplayer app

Arizona phone interaction

Integration with the mobile app allows users from anywhere in the world to see and interact with the experience and the visitors in the physical space, with added real-time haptic feedback.

In this important moment in time, humans and technology are evolving together, and interactive art exemplifies this relationship.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

Aquarium (Arizona Cycle) has been on view at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Scottsdale, Arizona from June - October 2019.