Perpetuum Inefficiens is an audiovisual real-time installation that interweaves financial markets, sustainability indicators, and live weather data into a complex system. It is a poetic system of rules—less a model of markets than a translation of signals into behavior. Temperature, air quality, and climate values shape sound and motion—as direct resonance of global conditions. At its core, speculative financial circles and indicators for planetary viability engage in a fragile balance. The work responds to real-time data and human presence—via camera detection and an interactive web interface. Stability remains elusive. The piece asks whether a growth-driven system can ever come to rest—and invites the viewer to witness a dynamic, breathing contradiction.

The installation is spatially adaptive. It can unfold as a wide panoramic projection across two or three projectors on a single wall, as a triadic setup across three walls, or as a single-channel version for smaller rooms—while preserving its core behaviors and dramaturgy.

High-brightness projection is essential—because the work is meant to function as light: its color fields need to read as luminous, not merely as images on a wall.