Temporal Manipulation of the Duomo
By Ian Wallace
An interactive installation where users use hand gestures to swipe between daytime and nighttime 3D scans of the Duomo di Milano, transforming the cathedral into a responsive digital lightfield. [Josette Seitz](/artists/josette-seitz) — XR Engineer — https://www.josetteseitz.com [Ian Wallace](/artists/ian-wallace) — Creative Technologist — https://www.instagram.com/ijkwxyz “Temporal Manipulation of the Duomo” explores how human gestures can interact with large-scale spatial data. Using Gaussian splat scans of the Duomo captured with an XGRIDS PortalCam during both daytime and nighttime, the cathedral becomes an interactive digital artifact. With Ultraleap hand tracking, participants swipe through time, transitioning the Duomo between day and night with the movement of their hands. The project invites participants to physically shape how digital representations of real-world spaces are experienced. Users transition between these two states, revealing architecture as something that can be explored, manipulated, and experienced through the body. Project Category (Optional) · Interactive installation How does your project express a perspective on The New Human ? A future where humans interact directly with spatial data through natural gestures comes into focus here. By swiping between day and night across a digital reconstruction of the Duomo, the body becomes an interface for navigating and shaping the memory of real-world places. What are you experimenting with or discovering through this project?