在沙特阿拉伯利雅得由扎哈·哈迪德设计的一座非凡新建筑中，KAPSARC（阿卜杜拉国王石油研究中心）作为一个独立的能源研究中心运作。FIELD受邀为该中心中庭的两层数字画布创作艺术作品，以表达KAPSARC的目的和愿景，探索合作、自然和探索这三个核心主题。
这是一个包含三个不断变化的生成艺术作品的永久装置，设计作为科学研究精神的隐喻：持续探索的决心；对复杂性的着迷；以及认识到我们的星球是多么脆弱和美丽。
千人千思（A Thousand Minds）
“合作”这件作品渲染出无限序列的独特火花时刻，表现为色彩丰富且高度复杂的网络可视化。通过将人类连接组项目开源的大脑扫描数据带入生活，这件作品既代表了相互交织的网络结构，也展现了人类互动的复杂性。
太阳航海者（Solar Sailor）
从绕地球运行的卫星视角出发，《Solar Sailor》观察到无穷无尽的日出与日落景象，这是通过对地球大气中的光折射进行物理实时模拟实现的。“自然”这件作品提醒我们“大局”，所有关于清洁能源的研究最终都是为了延长我们在地球上生存的时间。
未知领域（Unknown Territories）
“探索”这件作品带领观众进行一场穿越生成洞穴的无尽旅程，从抽象的冰洞到色彩鲜艳的沙漠洞穴，深入未知领域。在引导灯光的带领下，穿过地下洞穴和碧蓝色的岩洞，艺术品象征着KAPSARC研究人员正在探索的未被绘制的学术景观，以及所有学科研究人员共同拥有的持续深入探索的决心。
信息墙（Info Wall）
在主要艺术装置对面，FIELD创建了一个动态信息显示屏，该屏幕聚合了来自多种新闻和社交媒体来源的内容，以及实时视频，成为一个不断演变的多语言信息点，供宾客使用。工作人员可以使用定制的iPad应用程序和内容管理系统（CMS）持续监控、管理和更新内容。
技术
除了创意工作，FIELD还负责探索使一切顺利工作的技术，并在整个三年的项目完成过程中直接与AV供应商合作，设计并实施了整个定制硬件解决方案。
FIELD开发了一个高精度、低级别的多屏幕同步和渲染节点管理框架，使其能够同步用于每秒60帧渲染1.6亿像素视频（80倍高清分辨率）所需的20台计算机，每天工作10小时，几乎无需人工干预。
A permanent installation of three ever-changing generative artworks, designed as metaphors for the spirit of scientific research: The persistence to keep exploring. The fascination for complexity. And the realisation how fragile and beautiful our planet is.
In an extraordinary new building by Zaha Hadid in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, KAPSARC serves as an independent centre for energy research. For a 2-storey digital canvas in the atrium, FIELD were invited to express KAPSARC’s purpose and vision in artistic metaphors – exploring Collaboration, Nature and Exploration as core themes.
A Thousand Minds
The “Collaboration” piece renders an infinite sequence of unique spark moments as colourful, highly complex network visualisations. Bringing to life the neural activity of open-source brain scan data from the Human Connectome Project, the piece represents both the intertwined network and the complexity of human interaction.
: A permanent installation of three ever-changing generative artworks, designed as metaphors for the spirit of scientific research by FIELD.IO
: A Thousand Minds — KAPSARC’s neurons firing through MRI scan data from the Human Connectome Project by FIELD.IO: A Thousand Minds — KAPSARC’s neurons firing through MRI scan data from the Human Connectome Project by FIELD.IO
Solar Sailor
From the perspective of a satellite orbiting Earth, Solar Sailor observes an infinite succession of sunrises and sunsets, achieved through a physical real-time simulation of light fraction in the Earth’s atmosphere. The piece for “Nature” is a reminder of the “big picture”, and the fact that all research into cleaner energy is ultimately an attempt to prolong our time on this planet.
Unknown Territories
The piece for “Exploration” is an infinite journey through generative caves, from abstracted ice caves to brightly coloured desert caves, infinitely travelling deeper into unknown territories. Lead by a guiding light through subterranean caverns and aquamarine grottos, the artwork represents the uncharted academic landscape being explored by researchers at KAPSARC, and the persistence to keep going deeper that researchers of all disciplines have in common.
Info Wall
Opposite to the main art installation, FIELD created a dynamic information display, which aggregates content from a variety of news and social media sources, as well as live video, into a constantly evolving, multi-language information point for guests. The content can be constantly monitored, managed and updated by staff using a bespoke iPad application and CMS.
Technology
In addition to the creative work, FIELD was in charge of exploring the technology to make everything work smoothly, and throughout the three years that it took to complete the project, it collaborated directly with the AV suppliers to design and implement the entire bespoke hardware solution.
FIELD developed a high-precision, low-level multi-screens synchronisation and render-node management framework that allowed them to keep in synch the twenty computers needed for rendering a 160 mega pixels video at 60 frames per second (80 times HD resolution), ten hours a day, everyday, with almost no human intervention.
