January 1, 2024

The Rennaissence of New York

In the heart of New York, Mercer Labs is a bold hub for contemporary art and technological innovation. Curated by Roy Nachum in collaboration with LedPulse Collective Mind, The Dragon Room dissolves the boundaries between physical and higher dimensions through immersive volumetric light. In April 2025, the “MAESTROS” exhibition introduced LYRA, a dedicated AI model that enables real-time co-creation, deepening the symbiosis between human intention and machine intelligence.

USER
Mercer Labs
Location
NY
America
eVENT / VENUE
Mercer Labs
Body
DRAGON O²
Mind
LYRA AI
TouchDesigner
Soul
Infinite reflections, human and machine

Project DNA

Introduction

Dates
January 1, 2024
LOCATION
NY
America
Event / VENUE
Mercer Labs
Integrator
Electrosonic

More than half a million LED•Neurons are floating in a surreal space of 600 cubic meters completely covered by state of the art mirrors. This Environment uniq amplifies the immersion merging the audience in a dimensional trip. The audiovisual mutation of the space hacks the conventional filters of perception.

A challenge for perception

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Hardware

The Body of The Dragon

MODEL
DRAGON O²
Size / Voxels
84 Modules - 504,000 LED Neurons - 600 m³ / 6m High - 10x10x6

504,000 LED•Neurons in 600 Cubic meters (10X10X6)

Box room

Totally covered by Mirrors

Software

The Mind Of the Dragon

Software Tools
LYRA AI
TouchDesigner
eXTERNAL tOOLS
Mirrors
INTEGRATIONS
Sound & Music Interactivity

Dragon Room in Mercer  Labs Is the first system embracing LYRA. An AI model that understands and interprets the geometry of a  "voxel made" body. An artificial system with self recognition of its own MATRIX and the capacity of crate content without render engine interfaces.

Content

The Soul of The Dragon

CONTENT
Immersive
SOUL
Infinite reflections, human and machine
PERFORMER
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ENVIRONMENT
Museum
DIRECTOR
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EXHIBITION
Permanent

For the new exhibition MASTERS, we worked with complex collective systems exhibiting organic behavior. Every particle of light represents an individual with its own pattern and sense of “self-determination,” while simultaneously forming part of a larger system that itself performs as a single entity. To explore the mysterious and fractal relationship between the collective and the individual, we collaborated with LYRA, our DragonAI model, feeding SWAMP as a living dataset.

LYRA does not impose form, but listens, interprets, and translates patterns into volumetric light behavior. Through this collaboration, the system reveals emergent structures where individual agency and collective intelligence coexist, continuously negotiating balance, tension, and coherence in real time.