David Mrugala is a German architect, educator and an award winning intermedia artist who lives and works in South Korea. He takes inspiration from urban culture and architectural spaces to create visual narratives and events. He launched “thedotisblack”, a platform for research design that develops design knowledge through generative and procedural drawings and animations made with code, focusing on motion, geometry, natural science studies, sound analysis and digital fabrication.

This video work is composed of several sequences of various human silhouettes that overlap and create continuous, yet distinct visuals. Enhanced by changes of color and form, each sequence is controlled by a custom-made algorithm, an autonomous system that analyzes and translates images into numbers that change the size, speed and direction of movement. With each sequence, the work becomes a narrative of intricate movement, a generative portrait that is in constant motion.