GeneraCity is a framework for site-specific works that treat the city not as a backdrop, but as a living instrument. It is designed to be re-authored for each location, with its own inputs, constraints, and visual grammar.
Instead of “illustrating” data, GeneraCity metabolizes it. Streams of numbers—environmental signals, mobility patterns, infrastructure rhythms—are translated into compositional parameters: density, tempo, contrast, repetition, drift. The work does not depict the city; it behaves like it.
The result is an artwork that continuously reconfigures itself, operating on the boundary between system and poem. It preserves a coherent aesthetic identity while remaining open to fluctuation—an image-world that is never finalized, only sustained, like weather.
Warsaw-specific incarnation of the framework: a work composed with the city’s own cadence as its score. It is explicitly anchored in local data sources and tuned to Warsaw’s particular tempo—its accelerations, pauses, and daily cycles.
The project is a collaboration between Piotr Czerski and Martyna Wędzicka-Obuchowicz. Together they shape a shared authorship: not a single “style applied,” but a negotiated language in which algorithmic procedure and artistic intent remain visible, inseparable.
Here, Warsaw becomes both subject and medium. Data does not arrive as raw evidence; it arrives as a pulse—an urban breathing that modulates form. The aesthetic is shaped to resonate with the city’s spirit: the nervous clarity of transit, the layered textures of districts, the quiet shifts that accumulate into a recognizable, unmistakably Warsaw presence.