Daniel Palacios

Exhibition of the first series of works produced under the ‘Measuring Berlin’ project, works developed specifically for EnBW showroom.

EnBW is located in an office building on the banks of the river in Friedrichstraße (Berlin). From the windows of the gallery you can see a scenario where there is a continuous traffic of people inside and outside the building, cars, trams and boats… a scenario that could be said that in essence is the always the same, but is in a steady stream of updates.

A receptive environment is that one we can affect, that one which is listening to us and accepts our presence, it changes, it adapts itself to us. Unknowingly modeled by us.
Measuring the surrounding environment of EnBW, logging all representative data collected from the outside of the gallery as well from the inside, the main building and their surroundings, that information is used to develop sculptures, engraved pictures on birch sheets and real time visualizations, however the representations are far away from the digital imaginary but closer to something as natural as vegetal growth patterns.

LED screen behind the wall. Floating along the entire wall, pixels moves slowly changing the behavior and shape of the flow generated according to the data captured in real time from the outside of the gallery (temperature, humidity, air quality, light and sound levels).

‘Whatever happened, Happened’ using movement data from the outside (through the windows) and the gallery itself to generated growth rings on a piece of wood during the two months that the exhibition will be open.

Sculpture composed of 300 layers, related to the motion data collected in the main hall of the building during a day, modeling the perimeter of the shape (90x28x17cm).

Sculpture composed of 520 layers, related to the motion data collected in the main hall of the building during a day, showing its trace on a temporal sequence (130x75x11.5cm).

Sculpture composed of 60 layers, related to the motion data collected in the main hall of the building during a day, setting relations between influence points (24x24x30cm).

14 pictures engraved on birch sheets, generated by the site environmental data collected during the two weeks prior the exhibition (45x45cm).