Following the success of the multi-sensory masterpiece The Summer Palace, acclaimed digital artist Agustín Vidal Saavedra returns to Outernet today with his most ambitious project to date: The Intelligence Garden.
Through spectacular visuals on Outernet’s free, 4-storey high, 16k screen surface screens, The Intelligence Garden guides audiences on a journey from simple, early forms of intelligence to human consciousness, framing intelligence as an emergent property of complex systems.
Agustín Vidal Saavedra is Creative Director at GLASSEYE, an award-winning creative technology studio based in Ireland, specialising in the production of immersive experiences at architectural scale. Working across large-format LED environments, XR and interactive media, the agency is known internationally for combining technical innovation with strong creative vision and narrative depth, creating experiences that are both memorable and meaningful.
Agustín Vidal Saavedra, Creative Director at GLASSEYE, said: “The way we think about intelligence is changing. The Intelligence Garden is not only a large-scale visual and technical work, but a reflection on how intelligence and artistic creation itself, is being rethought today.”
Using the metaphor of a garden – a site of growth, interconnection and transformation – the experience visualises the evolution of thought, perception and creativity. Moving fluidly from microscopic life to abstract human cognition, the work unfolds as a visually rich, living and evolving digital ecosystem.
Commissioned by Outernet London – the most visited cultural attraction in the UK – The Intelligence Garden has been conceived specifically for The Now Building, a landmark 23,000-square-foot, four-storey, 360° LED environment with wrap-around walls and ceiling, rendered at ultra-high 16K resolution. Located in the heart of London’s West End, the building offers one of the most ambitious and technically advanced immersive canvases anywhere in the world.
Produced using a hybrid creative pipeline that combines real-time, game-engine-based systems with cinematic animation and compositing techniques, The Intelligence Garden blends architectural-scale visuals, spatialised sound and responsive systems to create an experience that is at once technically mesmerising, emotionally resonant and conceptually rich.
Agustín Vidal Saavedra’s previous work, the hugely popular The Summer Palace, was a beautiful combination of Renaissance paintings, animation, particle simulations and 3D visuals.
