Datarium is a series of generative animation/video installations. In this series, I imagine a digital world inhabited by digital creatures. Many portals, some of them appear to be screens and some of them look like everyday objects, bridge the gap between our reality and the digital domain. Each portal offers a unique glimpse into specific areas of the digital world, revealing diverse ecosystems teeming with digital life forms.

Each of the portals is presented as an installation with different characteristics that comply with the narrative around them. For example, Datarium 04A53 is under wobbly water, linking the imaginary ecosystem and creatures with the submarine archetypes in nature. Datarium 055BB is filled with dark and sticky liquid, related to a leak event between the digital world and our physical world, being a metaphor for the impact of human activities on the earth. Datarium 0FF00-0FF05 is designed to resemble laboratory objects, a symbol of the ambition of human beings to control everything in our surroundings.

Datarium is the result of a sequence of extensive studies on diverse natural ecosystems, especially aquatic ones. It is a re-interpretation and re-imagination of the world we occupy, an exploration of alternative forms of organisms, and a question of the essence of life.

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