Life Forces
Merge with Nature in Tin&Ed’s Digital Dioramas on RockefellerCenter.com
Inspired by the dioramas of natural history museums, ‘Life Forces’ by Tin&Ed was a digital installation at Rockefeller Center that rendered the audience complicit in its creation. Erected in honor of Earth Day 2021, each of the three LED screens installed featured an interactive landscape: a live, infinitely scrolling realm of mossy rocks, twiggy clusters, fungi, trees and flowers. The forms were generated from 3D scans of plants abounding in US forests, meadows and deserts, paired with 3D sculptured lifeforms by the artists.
‘Life Forces’ is Tin&Ed’s urgent, joyful reminder of the interconnectedness of every living thing, and the fragile, complex bonds linking our every action to natural systems, like a network of invisible veins.
Since the Rockefeller Center installation, ‘Life Forces’ has been shown at the Barbican Center in London and is currently a part of the Barbican’s ‘Our Time on Earth’ exhibition. It was later displayed at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts.
CREDITSDIGITAL ARTWORK, DESIGN, AND CREATIVE DIRECTION Tin&Ed
CLIENT Rockefeller Center, Tishman Speyer
TECHNICAL INSTALLATION Boum Creative
PRODUCTION & ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT Gina Polverini
AGENCY Hugo & Marie