Immersive Installation Director — Pull of the Moon Premiere, Art Basel Miami (2014)
Agency: Vortex Immersion Media
Artists: Ai Weiwei & Bert Benally
Albertico served as Lead Builder for the immersive dome installation premiering Pull of the Moon, a collaborative film by Ai Weiwei and Bert Benally, during Art Basel Miami. Produced by Vortex Immersion Media, the project transformed a custom-built dome into a cinematic exhibition space that merged architecture, light, and motion to present the film as a fully immersive experience.
Working closely with the Vortex team, Albertico oversaw the structural build, projection alignment, and on-site integration, ensuring visual precision and immersive continuity throughout the dome interior. His leadership and technical expertise were central to realizing the installation’s atmosphere — bridging the physical and digital to bring this cross-cultural collaboration to life within one of the world’s most celebrated art events.
TIME 2014 / Pull of the Moon is an experimental immersive film based on the 2014 collaboration between renowned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and Navajo artist Bert Benally, inspired by their ephemeral land art performance in rural New Mexico. The film digitally reconstructs the remote site of Coyote Canyon using cutting-edge CGI techniques — including aerial drone mapping, photogrammetry, and gigapixel panoramic imaging — to reimagine the performance as an interactive, spatially dynamic experience.
