The Riddler’s Garden is a XR art project funded by the MIT / CSAIL, created by Director Juan Diaz Bohorquez and Creative Producer Itamar Kubovy.
The installation features an interactive digital ecosystem, that grows according to the interaction of the community and the AI powered interaction with the Riddler, stuart of the secret forest.
Creative Director: Juan Diaz Bohorquez
Creative Producer: Itamar Kubovy
Creature, Ecosystem and App Design: Juan Diaz Bohorquez
Developer: Konrad Feiler
3D Animation : Rocketframes
Presented in collaboration with the Prototype Festival, Modulation is a groundbreaking exploration of opera and theater adapting to a new format. Audience members are in control as they navigate through a landscape of new musical pieces—each with its own visual component—exploring the strands that weave together our lives over this past tumultuous and revelatory year. With themes of isolation, identity and fear, with the connection of breath, the experience brings together 13 of the most provocative and diverse voices in the contemporary music idiom.
Art & Design Juan Diaz Bohorquez
Team: Itamar Kubovy, Stefanie Sobelle, Joe Szuecs and Sherry Huss.
Imaginary Places
http://imaginaryplaces.studio/
In Boccaccio’s 14th-century Decameron, a group of friends avert the loneliness of quarantine during the Black Death by squatting together in an abandoned villa outside of Florence and telling each other stories — 10 people, 10 days, 100 tales. Their stories gave them solace. Since in this moment, global community cannot meet under one roof for comfort and insight, we wondered, how could we gather people from all over the world into one neighborhood, onto one street, where they could share their disparate responses? In this idiosyncratic, virtual place, the curious could click on a window and peek into each others’ lives, much like we had already been doing with one another.
Decameron Row is an experiment in community. We’ve been deliberate about diversity and geographic variety, but we’ve chosen to be guided more by intuition, the generosity of others, and happy accidents than by curatorial intention. The result is a quirky and incomplete record of this strange time. We hope you find it diverting. New videos will be added weekly through the summer until all the windows are occupied.
www.decameronrow.com
Concept, design and co-curation Juan Diaz Bohorquez
A collaborative project with Itamar Kubovy, Stefanie Sobelle, Joe Szuecs and Sherry Huss.
Imaginary Places
http://imaginaryplaces.studio/
