MARIS
2024
MSC Terminal AA/AAA, PortMiami, Miami FL
Real-time Oceanic Data,
Fluid Dynamics 3D Animation,
Interior Smart Glass Facade Projection Mapping,
Exterior Façade LED programming
Commissioners:
Art in Public Places,
Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Miami-Dade Seaport (PortMiami)
Maris is a speculative real-time, generative oceanic animation environment presenting a ‘living’ virtual world perpetually driven by live regional ecological data sets.
A permanent commission for Miami Dade County Art in Public Places and PortMiami, the first of its kind real-time projection mapping project will be located at the MSC Terminal AA/AAA and presented to the Miami public every evening from sunset to midnight, 365 days a year.
A monumental new public project, it will be the world’s largest permanent, real-time projection mapping installation – consisting of generative, oceanic 3D animation projected across the terminal’s dedicated 10,816 square foot smart glass façade.
Regional data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) research stations, JPL, and NASA—spanning the cosmos, atmosphere, and ocean floor—will shape and drive the dynamic virtual ecosystem, changing along with the conditions of the surrounding oceanic biosphere.
Through this expansive virtual infrastructure, the translation and transmission of selected datasets amplifies both visible and invisible aspects of the oceanic biosphere impacted by the Anthropocene.
Informed by current social and environmental discourses around the human relationship to the oceans currently being investigated in contemporary art, Maris embraces the concept of Oceanic Imaginaries, a philosophy which Views the oceans as “sensors” that “feel, react and create” and distinctly identifies “critical zones” that ask us to collectively re-imagine how we think and act.
What Stories does this living DATA Contain?
How do we Orient ourselves towards a Fluid Future?
CREATING A TRANSFORMATIVE SPACE OF METAMORPHOSIS
Maris engages the architecture as an experimental media platform, and a fluid, communicative infrastructure – reorienting the greater Miami community towards its deep relationship to the Oceanic expanse.