Cellular Scapes is a live video performance that explores self-organizing digital systems through generative algorithms based on cellular automata. The visuals, entirely monochrome in black and white, evolve dynamically through programmed rules that govern the interaction between individual pixels. Rather than following a predetermined composition, each scene unfolds autonomously, creating ever-changing formations shaped by localized interactions within a structured grid.  The video projections combine animated elementary geometries with dense digital textures, where shifting and sliding shapes influence pixel movement, triggering new reactions within the cellular automata. Each scene operates under slightly different rules and parameters, altering how the environment responds. The visuals transition between distinct configurations—sometimes highly pixelated and rigidly digital, at other times fluid and organic, crystalline, linear, or wave-like. The performance unfolds in long cycles of repetition and transformation, creating a hypnotic and suspended atmosphere. Some sequences progress with extreme slowness, evoking a sensation of waiting, as large masses oscillate endlessly under invisible gravitational forces. In other moments, shrinking and expanding shapes generate subtle variations in composition, playfully behaving like living elements within a fictional microscopic world. This perpetual motion, caught between structured order and organic flow, reinforces a sense of time being stretched and dissolved. Aesthetically, the work is rooted in a pure, graphic language, playing with two-dimensional compositions that recall early experimental moving images. The interplay of form, motion, and contrast creates a visual landscape that is at once minimal and complex, evoking the precision of algorithmic systems while embracing the unpredictability of emergent behavior. Presented as both a video installation and a live performance, Cellular Scapes has been shown at various venues and electronic music festivals, immersing audiences in an evolving field of structured algorithms and ever-shifting digital landscapes.

two-channels video projection
video format: 3840x1920
live performance and installation

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digital animations
generative graphics

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