Meet the artist
Calin Segal is a Romanian computational artist working at the intersection of architecture, generative systems, and research-based art. Trained in architecture in Paris, he shifted from spatial and humanitarian projects toward computational media, using algorithmic models to explore how ecological, social, and technical systems behave when reduced and recomposed. His practice treats analysis as a creative act, focusing on interaction, feedback, and emergence rather than representation.
His work takes the form of installations and sculptural environments that function as simplified, experiential models of complex systems. Segal has exhibited at events such as Nuit Blanche Paris, LEV Festival Madrid, Geneva Mapping Festival, the G7 Forum Bologna, and Ars Electronica, and has taken part in international research residencies including V2_ Rotterdam and S+T+ARTS VOJEXT.
SciArt collaboration at JRC
Calin Segal will start his artistic residency with the Disaster Risk Management Unit at JRC.
Between January and June, Calin will be working with Tom de Groeve's team in Ispra (Italy), focusing on the act of modelling natural systems under threat, not only as a technical practice, but as a cultural language that shapes what institutions can see, fear, and act upon.
Under this umbrella, his artistic focus is on, as he calls "doomsday equations", which are the minimal mathematical forms used to describe escalation, tipping points, cascading failures, and compounding uncertainty. I am interested in how these equations translate messy geophysical reality into decision-relevant signals, what assumptions are embedded in their parameters, and how those assumptions are reflected in public narratives of risk, preparedness, and inevitability.