Magna Mutatio / Tajo-Setubal (video)

Generative video, 4K, single-channel. Tokenized on Ethereum platform.. High-performance workstation with CUDA acceleration or dedicated 4K media player. Result is a continuous projection of water micro-world.

SeriesMagna Mutatio
ID2025-MM-TSV-01
Date of origin11.10.2025
TechniqueGenerative video, 4K, single-channel. Tokenized on Ethereum platform.
DimensionsDigital file, 16:9
Duration00:06:00
SoftwareHydroWeave Engine v1.0 (custom patch in TouchDesigner). Patch uses Script TOP (Python) for turbidity map calculation from Sentinel-2 data. This data map controls GLSL vector field directing movement of GPU particle system. Result: composition with long exposure of millions of particle traces — fibrous, woven texture.
HardwareHigh-performance workstation with CUDA acceleration or dedicated 4K media player.
Data sourceESA Sentinel-2, satellite image from July 19, 2019. Turbidity parameter in the mouth of the Tajo River, Setubal area, calculated by Se2WaQ script.
InteractionContemplative. Viewer observes autonomous, constantly evolving generative process without beginning or end.
Location of originSensing Change: Festival of Visual Art, Science, and Ecological Imagination, BioBat Art Space, New York, USA
Type of exhibitionFestival / Gallery installation
CuratorAdam Vačkář
PhotoAuthor archive / Festival documentation
Author of textKryštof Brůha
Key conceptsHydrodynamic simulation, data fabric, vector field, indexical trace of energy, non-human labor, liquid model
Text titleMagna Mutatio / Tajo-Setubal: Hydrodynamics of invisible flow
DateExhibition
11.10.2025Sensing Change – BioBat Art Space, New York, USA
SeriesRelated works
Magna MutatioMagna Mutatio — Tajo-Setubal (print) (2025) — pendant — same dataset, different medium
Magna MutatioMagna Mutatio — Flumen gen 2.0 (2022) — evolution HydroWeave Engine + Tajo
Magna MutatioMagna Mutatio — Lisbon (2022) — same location, older dataset

CONCEPT

Magna Mutatio / Tajo-Setubal is a fluid portrait of the Tagus River estuary, where satellite water turbidity data are transformed into a hydrodynamic probe of the invisible flow between land and ocean. Here, the generative HydroWeave Engine algorithm functions as a data metabolism that constructs a fibrous “data fabric” from turbidity parameters—a techno-fossil of ephemeral energies that records the labor of other-than-human forces within the landscape. The video thus does not create a map of a place, but rather an ephemeral archive of fluid topology, where each frame is an indexical trace of one possible configuration of current, sediment, and light.

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