Sai Karlen
Digital Playground, 2022-2023

Digital Playground, offers a unique experience that blends elements of the natural world with cutting-edge digital technology. The project takes inspiration from patterns and forces found in nature, such as wind flows and organic growth, and transforms them into a visually stunning digital ecosystem.

Visitors are invited to engage with the artwork through their own body movements, which are detected by various room sensors that influence the generative computer program. The result is a dynamic and ever-changing display of particles that grow, move, appear, and disappear in response to the audience's interaction.

Digital Playground sits within the field of 'creative coding,' where the focus is on artistic expression and exploration rather than purely functional purposes. The soundscape, created through a similar generative process, adds an immersive dimension to the experience.

The room is also filled with smaller compositions that showcase the aesthetic potential of Sai's generative systems, making Digital Playground a fusion of play between artist, artwork, and audience.

Digital Playground was showcased as a part of Museum of Brisbane’s show Play Moves (10 December 2022 – 16 April 2023) on a collection of local and national participatory artists, inviting people of all ages and abilities to surrender themselves to the sublime art of play.

Images supplied courtesy of Museum of Brisbane.
Photographer: Katie Bennett

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