SIJANJE / THE SHINING — premiere of the ISOLABS project at the EPIC Center

Premiere of SIJANJE / THE SHINING by Biederman, Peljhan & Warnecke. December 2, 2025 at 19:00, EPIC Center Nova Gorica.

SIJANJE / THE SHINING
Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan, Pierce Warnecke

The project is part of the ISOLABS EMBEDDED S3 (SCIENTISTS, SORCERERS, SHAMANS) program and will premiere on December 2, 2025, at the EPICenter in Nova Gorica.
Opening at 19:00; the exhibition will remain open until December 7, 2025 according to the following schedule: Tuesday–Sunday: 10:00–18:00, Thursday–Friday: 10:00–22:00

SIJANJE / THE SHINING is a project in a series of situations based on remote-sensing data of the Soča River basin with a resolution of 3 cm/px, collected as part of the SPEKTR-Z laboratory activities from 2022 to 2025.

THE SHINING is computationally and procedurally designed using Gaussian splatting. The process begins with acquiring remote-sensing data using satellite and unmanned aerial vehicles, followed by preprocessing steps such as radiometric correction, geometric alignment, and camera pose estimation using the Structure-from-Motion method. These procedures produce cleaned and georeferenced data along with a sparse 3D point cloud.

Each point is transformed into a three-dimensional Gaussian primitive containing position, shape, transparency, and color; these primitives serve as the initial structure for scene reconstruction. The Gaussian elements are optimized through discretized rendering until they form a 3D radiance field. Through real-time processing, these fields evolve so that the original scenes in THE SHINING never mathematically repeat, continually generating new views, processes, and outcomes.

In addition to the visual layer, THE SHINING includes a sound composition, using recordings created during residencies by participating artists QOA, Segundo Berceteche, Dimitry Morozov, Marko Peljhan, and Antti Tenetz. The procedural sound processing and its integration with the visual system were created by Pierce Warnecke, Matthew Biederman, and Marko Peljhan.

The presentation within GO2025! marks the first showing of the project and its ongoing processes, which will continue in 2026 and beyond, both within the SPEKTR-Z laboratory and in further presentations linked to the continuation of the ISOLABS project.

Expert collaborators: Jernej Moderc (Ronin Institute), Martin Lamut (TIMTEC)
In collaboration with: European Space Agency EO-FUSER Project, Soške Elektrarne, VICOS Laboratory of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of California Santa Barbara, Systemics Laboratory, TIMTEC
Support: 4Design
Production: Projekt Atol Institute