Zaha Hadid Paintings: Virtual Reality Experiences, 2016
A collaboration with Google Arts and Culture:
Zaha Hadid’s early paintings in virtual reality
On the occasion of the exhibition Zaha Hadid: Early Paintings and Drawings, a series of virtual reality experiences have been specially developed with Zaha Hadid Virtual Reality Group working in partnership with Google Arts & Culture. In the same way that Zaha Hadid's paintings served as tools for thinking through and proposing the design of new buildings, this experience seeks to translate some of the key aspects and DNA contained inside the paintings into virtual reality (VR). This is a 360° film of one of the virtual reality experiences.
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The Peak, 1982-83
"I used painting to develop my proposals for the Peak Leisure Club in Hong Kong (1982-83), a building that was to be based on the landscape, and intended as a new man-made geology or ecology…The continuous line with many trajectories on the same surface evolved in my drawings and paintings at this time; I was using different perspectives to develop distortion."
– Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid: Virtual Reality Experience 2016, The Peak: Blue Slabs, 1983
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Project credits:
Serpentine:
Artistic director: Hans Ulrich Obrist
Digital curator: Ben Vickers, Kay Watson
Chief executive: Yana Peel
Exhibition curator: Amira Gad
Google:
Cultural Institute Google: Freya Murray, Amit Sood, Laurent Gaveau, Suhair Khan
Technical programmer Google Lab Paris: Damien Henry
Zaha Hadid Architects:
Principal: Patrik Schumacher
Head of ZH VR Group: Helmut Kinzler
CTO ZH VR Group: Jose Pareja-Gomez
Consultant: Andy Lomas
Collaborators: Melodie Leung, Magda Smolinska, Aiste Dzikaraite
Novelab:
Director: Grégoire Parain
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