Vec4(red,green,blue,alpha)

Vec4(red,green,blue,alpha) was made for the Small Museum, a tiny museum that is housed in one of the announcement cabinets on the facade of pop temple Paradiso in Amsterdam. The work is a generative virtual environment based on the urban space around Paradiso that is influenced in real time by weather conditions and the day and night rhythms of physical reality. This environment is characterised as Amsterdam’s busiest square that is constantly in motion, where different players appear, interact, disappear and make way for others again. Within these urban dynamics, the work integrates the digital dimension that is an inseparable part of our daily lives in many visible and invisible ways. By showing elements that relate to how the
computer perceives, draws and interweaves this virtual location with aspects of the physical environment, the work creates a possible new nature of which digital artefacts are a part.

Gabey Tjon a Tham explores the complex systems found in both nature and our digital world and how they influence each other through ever-evolving sequences. In her current practice, she focuses on working with site-specific experiences to
reflect on environments in which natural and digital agents operate, each with its own time cycles and behaviour: influencing a living system in the making.


This video is a compilation of the installation, the original duration of the work is 3 months. 

Credits
Concept, development, 3D graphics - Gabey Tjon a Tham
3D graphics technical support, Unity 3D development - Neander Giljam (Katpatat)
3D graphics technical support - Rob Bothof

Curation: Rosa Cherim
Production: Sanne Lohof & Tom Lavrenenko
Videography: Bobbie Wagenaar / Sans Studio Amsterdam