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Illuminated Flower – public art sculpture

koibito — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:38:52 +0000

A GIANT flower designed to light up by catching energy from the wind will soon shine as a beacon on the new look Widnes Waterfront.
Plans to build a 50ft high illuminated flower out of galvanised metal, with 120 petals were approved by Halton councillors on Monday evening.
Architect Anna Liu, aged 43, who won a competition to design the public art sculpture, spoke exclusively to the World this week.

“When you do something quite bold on a big scale it does attract criticism but it also provokes discussion and makes people want to go and see it.”

The sculpture will be erected on rough pasture land beside a metal walkway and observation deck that looks over the Mersey estuary.

via runcornandwidnesworld.

Laws of Motion in Origin by Leo Villareal

koibito — Sat, 05 May 2007 14:31:03 +0000

To create this new work, Villareal integrated physicist Issac Newton’s Laws of Motion into his own computer code, augmenting his earlier explorations of rule-based cellular automata programs that were inspired by mathematician John Conway’s Game of Life. By applying principles of physics, the artist has increased the complexity of his simulated worlds. As the elements move within the large matrix of white LED’s (light emitting diodes),Villareal’s encompassing patterns evoke stars swirling in space and at other passages biological interactions deep within the body. Lively interactions between objects in Orign’s matrix generate visual stimuli pulsing with energy suggestive of specific behavior and personality.

“I am very inspired essential questions like ‘How does life begin?’ Villareal explains, referencing both studies in the birth of the universe as well as cellular processes such as fertilization and cell division in his patterning. “I liked the minimal feel of my last show Horizon, here in 2004, yet the experience of the new piece will be like seeing a very zoomed up view of my worlds. Origin’s scale within the gallery will create a sense of immersion, like being in a giant microscope or scientific instrument,” comments the artist on the relationship of the new work to his earlier installation.
You can find more about exhibition at Conner Contemporary Art .

Massive Installation Utilizes More Than 40,000 LEDs

Impressive Line of LED Embeded Hats

koibito — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:05:37 +0000

Janet Cooke Hansen is President and Chief Fashion Engineer of Enlighted Designs, Inc. that create an excellent line of hats under the name EFHED. She founded the business to create her own “dream job” as a light-up clothing designer.

Janet’s eclectic designs combine her lifelong interests of fashion,art, and technology. She learned to sew at age 7, and installed miniature lights in her own dollhouse. Over the years, her costume-making hobby began to incorporate electronics, with illuminating results.

With more than eight years of experience in this newly-emerging field, Janet is well known as a pioneer and innovator, creating unique apparel for a variety of international clients.

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The Big Round Cubatron

koibito — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:58:05 +0000

The BRC is the world’s largest 3-dimensional full color dynamiclight sculpture. It is an array of lights 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet high. It consists of 28 spokes, each of which is 24
lights wide by 9 lights high. Each light is independently controllable to display any color and brightness level and the entire display can be updated 50 times per second. There are 6048 total lights (28 * 24 * 9) made of 18,144 LEDs. The BRC was funded by a Burning Man Art Grant.

The physical structure that holds up the lights consists of two pieces, a central mast, and a circular wall of poles. The lights are strung horizontally and from the central mast to the outer posts:

The central mast is a 10 foot 4×4 inch wood pole standing vertically in the center. It is supported by 1/8″ steel cables that run from the top of the mast to the top of each outer pole.

The poles around the circumference are 1-3/8″ diameter pipe and 10 feet high. They are pre-assembled into 14 “squares” along with some 3/4″ EMT pipe to keep the squares together The squares are held to the ground in each corner by rebar stakes. The tops of the squares are pulled tight and held down with rope and rebar stakes.

The light string wires are attached to the poles at 10 inch height intervals using plastic wire ties and paper clips. The bottom string of lights starts about 3 feet off the ground.

A small viewing tower was located to one side of the sculpture. It was built from some scaffolding two tiers high (10 ft), allowing people to view the sculpture from an eye level of around 15 feet high.
check the project page for more info…
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Illuminated Flower – public art sculpture

TENORI-ON: Playing Sound and Ambient Light Patterns

koibito — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 22:10:17 +0000

Tenori-On is great LED based novel personal digital instrument for playing sound and ambient light patterns developed by Toshio Iwai.

It is operated by touching 16×16 LED switches. You could think of them as musical keyboards that respond to the subtlety of your finger touch by emitting light waves, creating afterglow, and making soothing sound sequences. The instrument knows how long and from which direction the player touches each LED switch as well as the tilt angle. ITRON is used as the computational engine that handles complex processing in real time. It has a jog dial, LCD display, hi-quality stereo speakers, and four function switches in the frame. On the back side of the device are additional 16×16 LEDs that allow audience to see the light patterns as well. Multiple TENORI-ON devices can be connected for collaborative sessions and exchanging songs.

Interface:
The Instrument contains acceleration sensors. The software can calculate direction of finger movement.
It has two built in speakers, a clear button, 12 function buttons on the outside. Small LCD display. Volume control and headphone output. The 16Ã—16 LED matrix on the rear side acts a display only (not input).

Multi-user:
Tenori-On uses the Midi protocol and can communicate with other Tenori-On, synchronizing them. Remote mode allows you to control Tenori-On from a PC or another Midi instrument.

Don’t miss to check this video & see some photos here
via vmmna i pixelsumo

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LoopScape: Playing Around Cylindrical LED Screen

koibito — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:37:10 +0000

LoopScape, by Ryota Kuwakubo, is a game for 2 players with wireless controllers. It is a very classic shooting game. But instead of battling on a flat screen, you have to run around the cylindrical LED screen to follow your spaceship. Another consequence of having a 360Â° is that once your missile is fired, it will fly round and round until it hits something: hopefully it will hit your opponent’s rocket but you might also get shot down by your own missile if the enemy manages to avoid it.

LoopScape –together with Unreflective Mirror, by Masaki Fujihata, A-Volve by Sommerer/Mignonneau, FragMental by exonemo, and works by five other artists– is part of the Art & Technology Zone, an exhibition area where one can investigate the dialogue between technology and art. The show opens on June 6 and runs until September 9, at ICC, Tokyo.
NTT is also hosting the lovely Kodama installation by Hisako Kroiden Yamakawa.
via WMMNA

Playing Xbox 360 @ Giant Cowboys Stadium LED wall

Contemporary Led Space Design

koibito — Sun, 28 May 2006 21:11:11 +0000

Japan Media Arts Festival is a “Contest” in which authors praise creative media art works utilizing the latest expression technology and also Festival in which organizers support creative activity and broadly present various art works.

“The world of media arts is expanding with increasing speed every year.
notion mold is a space design in which feelings stirring behind the creation such as wishes and expectations of artists existing in the background of works which had made an entry into the Festival were replaced with forms as a design metaphor.Symbolic figures reaching out from the entrance were created with see-through fabric. They proceeded organically farther into the exhibition hall folding upward and downward. The areaâ€™s award-winning works were exhibited where the audience stepped in, as if he or she were guided by something, were lighted softly with category color zone by zone. A function was interwoven into the color which gave a vague hint of a contact point between an work which the audience was facing and the audience themselves.

LEDs were added to captions of works exhibited the same as last year. In my space construction, those lights were the same number as the artists who created works and asserted themselves gently in the semi-darkness of the exhibition space.”
TANIGAWA Junji, JTQ Inc.
from official site Japan Media Arts Plaza

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The Cubatron – LED PingPong 3D Display

koibito — Sat, 06 May 2006 18:10:13 +0000

The Cubatron is the world’s largest true 3D color graphics display (until the BRC is built in August 2006). It is 8x8x8 feet in size. It consists of 729 voxels (3D pixels) arranged in a 9x9x9 matrix, spaced 10 inches apart from each other. Each voxel is a 40mm diameter ball that can be independently set to display a 21-bit RGB color. The entire display can be updated about 30 times per second. The voxels “float” in space so that the viewer can see through the cube and have a view of most of the voxels from any position.

There are 729 voxels. Each one has a microcontroller on it. There are 27 strings of 27 voxels. The voxels on each string have an address of 1 through 27. They are sent commands using a special synchronous protocol which consists of a frame which contains RGB data for each of the 27 voxels on the string. A frame is sent on every string about 30 times per second. The voxels take the last RGB value they got and PWM the RGB LED to display the proper color.

A PC running FreeBSD generates the patterns to display. The PC converts the RGB data into the 27 streams of data to be sent to each string of voxels. It sends this data across an ethernet connection to an ethernet printer server. The printer server’s parallel port outputs data to the voxel driver board. The voxel driver board has a PIC18F452 which demuxes the incoming data and sends it out to the 27 voxel strings while maintaining proper timing for the synchronous protocol. The Cubatron requires 100K bytes of data per second.
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Massive Installation Utilizes More Than 40,000 LEDs

Geek Graffiti Takes on New York

koibito — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:39:38 +0000

NEW YORK — The group of 12 graffiti artists surrounds its target, a sculpture in Manhattan known as The Cube, and waits for the signal to begin tagging it up. It’s a daunting task — the 15-foot sculpture in Astor Place was recently coated with anti-graffiti paint.

But within seconds, The Cube is covered in LED Throwies, the latest innovation from the Graffiti Research Lab, or GRL, an open-source think tank dedicated to developing new methods and tools for street artists.

LED Throwies, which cost only 75 cents to make and stay bright for two weeks, are one of several DIY, street-ready technologies that the GRL has dreamed up since its inception in February.

Another development is the Electro-Graf, a technique that lets street artists embed LEDs, motors, solar panels or other electrical objects into a wall using conductive spray paint. Electro-Graf techniques give traditional tags a vibrant shine or even moving parts.
via: wired & makezine