Artist and Creative Director
Artist and Creative Director
AI-driven LED light sculpture
Garden of Forking Paths is a site-specific installation exploring perception and the non-linear nature of discovery.
The spatial structure is derived from the mathematical fractal known as the dragon curve. Rather than offering a single viewpoint, the work unfolds through movement. Visitors navigate the branching form, gradually becoming aware of their own position within the space and questioning the linear frameworks often applied to science, storytelling, and perception.
Embedded within the installation are texts generated by a custom machine learning system. Trained on scientific research papers from the Helmholtz Diabetes Center and influenced by nineteenth-century Romantic poetry, the system produces language that exists between scientific precision and poetic reflection.
Referencing The Garden of Forking Paths, the installation brings together branching structures in space and language. By translating scientific research into poetic language, the work shifts how the material can be read and perceived.
Following its completion, researchers at the center noted that the work gave visibility to their research by making it part of the installation itself.
Collaborators:
Commissioned by: Helmholtz Munich
AI code development: Lucija Gregov & Darien Brito
Sculpture Fabrication & LED Technology: YADA Studio
Light & Technical Advisor: 507 Nanometer
Text Animation: Simon Alexander Adams
Tech Support Touchdesigner: Markus Heckmann
LED light software & support: Madmapper
Photography: Florian Holzherr