# Water Over Clouds Studio

> A cultural studio and artist collective in New York City. A space for creative research and cultural innovation. Art de vivre.

Water Over Clouds Studio is a practice-led cultural studio and artist collective based in New York City, founded by Richie Adomako. The studio works across mixed media art, AI systems, cultural narratives, film, photography, spatial installation, and architectural study. Art is treated as investigation, and investigation as material.

## About

Water Over Clouds is an evolving body of work spanning painting, research, spatial installation, and architectural study. Written research informs constructed environments. Installations extend drawings into space. Architecture becomes a way of thinking through culture and technology. Nothing is separate; it is one continuous practice.

## Founder

- Richie Adomako: Mixed Media Art, AI Systems, Cultural Narratives. Bridging ancient wisdom and future design through computational creativity.

## The Collective

- Dominique Lopez: Artist & Curator. Medium: Art, Installation, Curation.
- Steve Chen: Film Maker & Producer. Medium: Film, Video.
- Open Call (YOU): The collective is open to artists, researchers, and thinkers working at the intersection of culture and technology.

## Current Research

- On Interface Dissolution (2025, Ongoing): Investigating how ambient computing dissolves the boundary between interface and environment.
- Diaspora Memory as Material (2025, Ongoing): Exploring cultural preservation through constructed environments, symbolic systems, and digital archives.
- The Architecture of Attention (2024, Ongoing): Examining spatial design as a method for shaping collective awareness.
- Generative Systems & Cultural Code (2024, Ongoing): Studying how machines inherit, interpret, and reproduce cultural memory.
- Notes on Modular Intelligence (2024, Ongoing): Building systems that think in components yet operate as cohesive wholes.

## Published Essays

- The Workplace OS: From Apps to Agents (2025-2035) (2024): https://medium.com/@Radomako/the-workplace-os-from-apps-to-agents-2025-2035-f7808ed09c94
- Food Communism: The Ethics of Eating Meat (2023): https://medium.com/@Radomako/food-communism-the-ethics-of-eating-meat-95220674094b
- The Future Work Space, As Convention Would Have It (2015): https://medium.com/@Radomako/the-future-work-space-as-convention-would-have-it-1472cfa9cd36

## Areas of Study

- Spatial Intelligence: How environments shape thought, behavior, and cultural memory.
- Cultural Systems: Frameworks for preserving and transmitting meaning across mediums.
- Generative Practice: Machine-mediated creation as cultural expression.
- Architectural Thinking: Space as a method for investigating culture and technology.
- Future Studies: Research into emerging cultural, technological, and spatial futures.

## Practice & Partnership

Water Over Clouds partners through commission, collaboration, and advisory across four fields:

- Cultural Systems: Identity architectures, narrative frameworks, cultural positioning, multi-channel system design.
- Spatial Works: Interactive art environments, spatial intelligence design, sensor-based systems, mixed reality architectures, museum installations.
- Generative Instruments: Augmented interfaces, generative visual systems, real-time responsive installations, AI-based creative instruments.
- Future Studies: Cultural pattern analysis, scenario construction, white papers, narrative worldbuilding, institutional advisory.

## Contact

- Website: https://wateroverclouds.studio
- Email: hello@wateroverclouds.studio
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wateroverclouds.studio
- X: https://x.com/wateroverclouds
- Location: New York City, NY

## Links

- Homepage: https://wateroverclouds.studio
- Practice & Partnership: https://wateroverclouds.studio/practice
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