Vanessa Barragão

Mergulho: As Paisagens de Vanessa Barragão

Ocean-inspired project that integrates physical art, digital environments, and immersive storytelling. “Mergulho: As Paisagens de Vanessa Barragão” converted Vanessa Barragão’s textile sculptures into a phygital installation, combining physical artifacts with digital projections and interactive spatial design. Simultaneously, for Expo 2025 Osaka, we contributed “Oceano” to the Portugal Pavilion, a site-specific live artwork that uses the pavilion’s rope structures as a medium, merging sculptural elements, live performance, and real-time digital visuals into a multi-layered ocean narrative.

Iterative testing to align movement, timing, and spatial composition with large-scale projections and technical constraints, ensuring seamless integration across multiple mediums.

The projects employ AI-assisted visual generation, real-time spatial mapping, and interactive phygital systems. For “Mergulho,” digital projections were precisely aligned with physical textile forms, creating a sensorial phygital environment.

Ocean visuals and interactive sensors create dynamic, educational, and environmentally-informed experiences.

The projects embed environmental and marine system concepts directly into the work. Data-driven visuals and interactive components illustrate oceanic processes and fragility, supporting educational engagement.

Push the boundaries of phygital storytelling, site-specific performance, and interactive environmental simulation.

R&D underpins all project phases. We develop custom software pipelines, spatial interaction frameworks, and hybrid physical-digital prototypes to test scalability and interactivity before deployment. Experiments include motion-tracking integrations, AI visual augmentation, and immersive projection calibration, ensuring technical reliability and precision in large-scale installations.