城市是一个活生生的实体，一个不断变化的整体，能够记住和学习自己的运动。与任何生物一样，它有自己独特的节奏，有一定的潮起潮落，这取决于它的许多网络和城市生态系统之间的关系。它的人，物质和环境的相互作用构成了它的本质，一种难以察觉的舞蹈，直到现在大部分都是看不见的。对于首尔Haemong, Refik Anadol工作室与DDP和首尔市合作，创造了一个公共艺术装置，展示了这个无法控制的灵魂。
使用扎哈·哈迪德建筑师事务所的DDP建筑作为画布，表演与机器的思想合作，挖掘这个结构的物质性，探索记忆本身的建筑。在揭示DDP的建筑形式后，该建筑为探索一种新的地形记忆奠定了基础，揭示了城市的集体历史。这部作品的编舞始于以市民故事的形式从城市中收集1100万份公共数据。这些视觉故事以档案、个人照片和文件的形式出现——个人和公共叙事，为过去和未来的希望提供了一扇窗口。利用机器思维(AI)来观察这些亲密的视觉记忆之间的联系，表演将观众从有限的地方感带入了多维空间之旅，从而可视化了对空间和时间的无形理解。同样，在综合这些记忆的基础上，想象出了首尔的另一种现实，揭示了基于这些个体相互联系的城市集体意识。
A city is a living entity, a constantly changing whole that is capable of remembering and learning its own movements. As with any living being, it has its own unique rhythm, a certain ebb and flow, that is dependent on the relationship between its many networks and urban ecosystems. The interplay of its people, physicality and environment makes up its essence, an imperceivable dance that until now has remained largely invisible. For Seoul Haemong, Refik Anadol Studio collaborated with the DDP and City of Seoul to create a public art installation that showcased this otherwise uncontainable soul.
Using the Zaha Hadid Architects’ DDP Building as a canvas, the performance collaborated with the mind of a machine to unearth the materiality of this structure and explore the architecture of memory itself. Upon unveiling DDP’s architectural form, the building set the stage for the exploration of a new kind of topographic memory, revealing upon its face the city’s collective histories. Choreographing this piece began by collecting 11 millions of public data from the city in the form of the citizens’ stories. These visual stories come in the form of archival and personal photographs and documents – individual and communal narratives that offer a window into the past and hopes for the future. Using the machine mind (AI) to see the connections between these intimate visual memories, the performance transported viewers from a limited sense of place into a multi-dimensional spatial journey that visualized an otherwise intangible understanding of space and time. Likewise, upon synthesizing those memories, alternate realities of Seoul were imagined, revealing the collective consciousness of the city based on the interconnectedness of those individual ones.
