Filip Roca
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About the Artist
Filip Roca is a digital media artist known for his highly visually stimulating video-mapping artworks. Based between Barcelona and Lisbon, he spent over a decade working in animation, motion graphics, and art direction. In 2015, he began to work on his personal projects, focusing on architectural video projections, projection mapping, and live generative visuals.
Known for his unique transformations of architecture worldwide, he created artworks for festivals and institutions like Signal Festival, Fete des Lumieres Lyon, Tokyo Lights, Illuminate Adelaide, Intervals, Thyssen Bornemisza Madrid, Noor Riyadh, Wonderspaces, Fjord Oslo, Genius Loci Weimar, iMapp, Krug Sveta Moscow. During these years, he collaborated with collectives and artists like Animalux, The Macula, Hyperbinary, Bordos Artworks, and Tigrelab.
Since 2022, Filip has been represented by Animalux.
About the Work
Crystal Resonance
Crystal Resonance is a projection mapping installation envisioned for both 425 Folsom Street and Annie Alley, transforming each façade into a glowing crystalline landscape.
Inspired by the formation of snowflakes, the piece explores how complexity and beauty emerge from simple structures and natural symmetry. The visuals are shaped by generative algorithms, specifically the Lindenmayer system (L-system)—a method that mimics the recursive branching patterns found in nature.
From a single point, geometric forms begin to unfold and multiply, creating evolving patterns that echo crystalline growth across the surface of the building. The animation blends algorithmic logic with an organic sense of flow, shifting between precision and spontaneity. A subtle ambient soundscape accompanies the projection. Layers of soft tones and crystal-like textures create a calming atmosphere, encouraging viewers to slow down, breathe, and take in the experience. Together, sound and image form a contemplative space—immersive but quiet, rhythmic but still.
Rooted in scientific ideas yet open to intuitive interpretation, Crystal Resonance offers a moment of stillness within the urban landscape—an ephemeral architecture of light and sound shaped.