MORPHOGRAM 

Year: 2014

Location: Traveling 

Team: Guvenc Ozel

Initially proposed for LACMA’s Art and Technology program and currently under development, Morphogram is an airborne sculptural roof in motion. It is a physical animate diagram machine, designed to respond to human form, consciousness, motion and emotion through inputs from sensory devices, actuated by drone technology, translating the digital and virtual into the physical. Morphogram is a surface made up of triangulated cells that are connected through a web. The surface is carried by a grid of software-controlled quadrocopters that act as actuators transforming the shape of the surface. As the quadrocopters change their location in 3D space, the surface morphs its geometry based on predetermined or live input iterations like a complex, computer controlled marionette.