CRYPTO SIRENAS

Projection Installation for The Goethe-Institut NY
Union Square, NYC

February, 2025

Project Description

'The Goethe-Institut New York is pleased to present the first New York institutional exhibition featuring a temporary collective with Berlin-based artists Anna Ehrenstein and Sunny Pfalzer, and San Salvador-based artists Lucy Tomasino and Alexa Evangelista, in collaboration with Web-3 researcher, Josh Davila.'

In December 2024, I began working with curator Zach Feldman to design a projector configuration for a retractable curved projection screen. Using floorplans of the space, and screen design from architect Chloe Munkenbeck, I designed a configuration that favored brightness, pixel density, and cost.

In February 2025, I led a team to install four ceiling-mounted projectors, and completed the projection mapping onto the 8.5m curved projection surface.

In addition to this, I programmed a custom back-of-house GUI in TouchDesigner to control content playback and system events. The content is being fed through MadMapper via NDI, and split to each projector with SDI-HDMI micro convertors.

Thank you to Zach Feldman for curating and producing the show, as well as Seth Scoville + Charlie Gangemi for projector installation assistance. Special thanks to Max Levin for connecting the dots, and Cam Vokey for pre-production support.