Electric Echos
At the heart of Israel's architectural heritage lies the Tiberias Power Station: an historic landmark and testament to industrial ingenuity.
“Electric Echos” transforms this historic space into a portal connecting our world to an unknown digital universe, populated with bizarre organisms, drawn to the emanating life force of the structure and its historical role.
Challenging viewers to see beyond the mundane, Electric Echos is an invitation to explore the boundless possibilities that lie at the intersection between imagination, history and technology.
“Electric Echos” transforms this historic space into a portal connecting our world to an unknown digital universe, populated with bizarre organisms, drawn to the emanating life force of the structure and its historical role.
Challenging viewers to see beyond the mundane, Electric Echos is an invitation to explore the boundless possibilities that lie at the intersection between imagination, history and technology.
Process
Tools
• Gravity VR • Houdini • Cinema 4D • Redshift
About the Process
Combining VR sculpting and hard-surface modelling and working across a suite of different programmes including Gravity VR, Cinema 4D and Houdini, Electric Echos takes an historic landmark and reconstructs it within an atemporal 3D space.
Procedural landscapes generated in Houdini, mimic the actual topography of the land surrounding the plant at the time it was closed (back in the 1940s) and vellum simulations inject life into the abstract lifeforms that inhabit the space.
Procedural landscapes generated in Houdini, mimic the actual topography of the land surrounding the plant at the time it was closed (back in the 1940s) and vellum simulations inject life into the abstract lifeforms that inhabit the space.
Exhibitions
Overview
"WATT?" at Architect's House Gallery
29 February, 2024
Curated by The Architect's House Gallery
Exhibition Details
Displayed on a single, 9:16 LED screen, Electric Echos (2024) is delivered in a simple geometric form befitting of the Tiberias power mill, which itself imposes a strong, geometric presence on the rolling hills of the surrounding countryside.
Celebrating the architecture of the nation, the WATT? exhibition invited a variety of artists to explore specific historic landmarks through the lens of their creative practice.
Information
Tools/Materials
LED Screen
Metadata
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 3840x2160
Frame rate: 25fps
Codec: h.264 mp4
Dimensions: 3840x2160
Frame rate: 25fps
Codec: h.264 mp4
Special Thanks
Dmitry Kulikov and Indrajit Sarkar for their assistance with the look development.
Clem Shepherd for modellig the power mill.