Ash Eliza Smith & Rachel Pearl
Force Majeure: One
Force Majeure: One
This piece is an excerpted loop from Force Majeure, an ongoing immersive project that transforms meteorological data into haptic, sonic, and visual experiences using real-time systems. The inaugural prototype of the project, it lays the groundwork for a broader investigation into atmospheric perception and embodied data.
Utilizing archival wind data from a hurricane, the work drives a Gaussian splat of a windmill site, digitally reconstructing and gradually dissolving the location through real-time particle systems, data-driven soundscapes, and haptic feedback.
Ash Eliza Smith & Rachel Lee Pearl
Sound Design: Malou Van der Weld
TouchDesigner, Unreal Development: Christie Lau
3D Imaging Capture & Processing: Alex Gee
Ash Eliza Smith is an artist and researcher who uses storytelling to rehearse new realities. Working across cinema, extended reality (XR), performance, and games, she builds narrative environments centered on embodiment, collaborative play, and more-than-human design. Her practice asks how the frameworks we inhabit shape how we world together. https://asheveryday.com/
Rachel Lee Pearl is an interdisciplinary researcher, creative producer, and speculative designer based in London. Her work spans the material and philosophical entanglements of ecology, technology, and society. She is a graduate of the Material Futures program at Central St. Martins, where her thesis project focused on a speculative system of adaptive reuse of industrial marine infrastructure for ecological enhancement and scientific study. Her process follows a deep curiosity and is highly collaborative, engaging scientists, designers, technologists, and academics to explore multi-disciplinary futures and provoke new lines of inquiry. rachelleepearl.com