Inspired by the dioramas of natural history museums, Life Forces by Tin&Ed was a digital installation at Rockefeller Center that renders the audience complicit in its creation. Each of the three LED screens installed featured an interactive landscape: a live, infinitely scrolling realm of mossy rocks, twiggy clusters, fungi, trees and flowers. The forms are generated from 3D scans of plants abounding in US forests, meadows and deserts, paired with 3D sculptured lifeforms by the artists.

Life Forces is Tin&Ed’s urgent, joyful reminder of the interconnectedness of every living thing, and the fragile, complex bonds linking our every action to natural systems, like a network of invisible veins.

Artwork, Design and Creative Direction by Tin&Ed
Client: Rockefeller Center, Tishman Speyer
Production and Technical Installation by Boum Creative
Production and Account Management by Gina Polverini at Hugo & Marie

The installation was later shown at the Barbican Center in London as a part of the ‘Our Time on Earth’ .