Fathom
Code, motion, and architecture come together in one evolving, interactive piece at Standford's CoDa building.
Commissioned for Stanford University’s new Computing and Data Science building (CoDa), Fathom is a five-story interactive artwork by Camille Utterback that explores the deep connections between data, the body, and ways of knowing. The installation’s five triangular glass panels glow with sunlight by day and come alive at night with real-time projections that respond to movement inside the building. As part of the creative team, I supported project management, design, and engineering, helping translate the artist’s vision into physical form—bridging conversations between fabricators, technologists, and the research community. Drawing from Stanford’s archives and scientific imagery, Fathom reflects on how we’ve always tried to measure the unmeasurable—and how meaning still lives between what we can see, touch, and fathom.
