A realtime simulation. 

2023 - 2024 

Role: Art Director, Lead Technical Artist 

Liminal is an empty vessel receiving invisible information in real time through sensors present in the physical environment, or stimuli from the outside. The human form makes subtle gestures, a language which is read by the inhuman entity. In reaction to these gestures, the inhuman entity responds by imparting different behaviors to the humanform. The inhuman entity evolves as it searches for stimuli, as it learns. Its memory is thus amplified over time, beyond the exhibition and the human realm. A brain organoid located in a lab made of few synthetic neural circuits, gives the human form a residual sensory function. As a gatekeeper, subject to pain, the human form rejects unwanted information, thus influencing the learning process of the inhuman entity.

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Credits

Pierre Huyghe
Liminal

Curator: Anne Stenne

All works are courtesy Marian Goodman, New York; Hauser and Wirth, London; Esther
Schipper, Berlin; Chantal Crousel, Paris; Taro Nasu, Tokyo

Additional Support by Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul

Production Credits
Pierre Huyghe Studio
Studio Manager: Anne-Sophie Tisseyre
Head of Production and Exhibition: Paola Ravagni
Production Manager: Elise Blanc
Assisted by Valentin Gillet, Fabian Elio, Laura Estévez Aguirre, Eduardo Pérez Infante,
Rocio Guerrero Marin, Sofia Jirón Arcos

Produced by Pierre Huyghe Studio, Anna Lena Films, Pixels
Pixels

Real Time Simulation and AI: Pixels Pixels 
Art Director, Lead Technical Artist: Shuruq Tramontini  
Technical Director: Ivaylo Getov 
Narrative and AI Creative Director: Sara Simon  
AI Design & Development: FLOAT 
3D real time Unreal Engine Artist: Jake Couri 
3D real time Unreal Engine Artist: Belen Benavides
Motion Animation Consultant: Tom Wandrag 

Motion Capture and Animation Team
Producers: Florence Cohen, Anna Lena Vaney

Scan 3D: Sample & Hold
Sam Jackson

Scan 3D: A New Design Studio
Sefki Ibrahim

Motion Capture Team: Mocap Lab
Remi Brun
Robin Gaune
Frank Vayssettes
Alexandre Gomis
Châu Kim Nguyen

Skinning & Rigging: Karlab
Ali Hamdan
Laurent Guittard
Angélique Corli
Marine Roques

Hole, Lighting, Ground: Virtual Lighting Studio
Sébastien Mizermont
Gilles Deschaud
Joël Baz

3D artist: Francisco Cangas
Consultant Lead 3D artist: Valentin Gillet

Brivanlou Laboratory of Synthetic Embryology
The Rockefeller University

Dr. Ali H. Brivanlou
Dr. Laurent Jutras-Dube
Dr. Francesco Piccolo
Jean-Marx Santel
Prashant Nasseir