BION - between non-living and living matter
“Bion” is an interactive installation that explores the relationship between humans and artificial life. “Bion” makes reference to an individual element of primordial biological energy identified as orgone by the scientist Wilhelm Reich.The installation is composed of hundreds of mass-produced, 3-dimensional glowing and chirping sculptural forms. Each bion, measuring approximately 4×3x2 ½ inches is an synthetic “life-form” fitted with an audio speaker, blue lights (LED’s), and multiple sensors. The bions are suspended by fine gage wire connected to panels that are attached to the ceiling. When installed the panels form clusters of bions arranged at different elevations. Each bion has the ability to communicate with the others and with viewers that enter the space.
When a viewer approaches the installation space she will witness a dynamic array of blips of sound and blue light emanating in cloud like patterns from all parts of the room. She notices that the source of the light and sound come from hundreds of small organic shaped forms called bions . The bions are communicating, unaware of the approaching visitor.
There is a video…
via WMMNA
Night Writer
One more great “How To” is comming from The Graffiti Research Lab. The Graffiti Research Lab is dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artist and protestors with open source technologies for urban communication.
The night writer extends the functionality of LED throwies by allowing a writer to catch a tag in lights. It’s cheap, easy to make and writes 12-inch glowing letters 25-feet in the air on any iron or steel surface…if you stand on a turned over garbage can.
Graffiti Research Lab could introduce you in multimedia street art, animation on walls, larger projections etc, but the night writer could show you a way and tools to create your own wall animation.
via: Makezine
White Light
In Judith Fegerl’s White Light installation, red laser beams, light projections, and blinking LED’s, irritate our sight, as the artist transforms the automatic process of seeing into a definite experience, exposing light as the source of our vision.
The installation is made of three parts that represent red, green and blue light, whose different wavelengths combine to produce ‘white’ light. Each work takes as its starting point objects that alter or influence our sight, such as contact lenses or floating particles in the vitreous jelly of the eye. Reactions to these objects are then extracted and reproduced for the viewer, tangibly dissecting the process of sight.
The triptych consists of:
- Read Only Memory: the artist’s contactlenses are being scanned by moving lasersystems. The monochromatic light gets irritated by organic sedimentation combined with the deformation of the lens. An abstract self-transforming pattern is then projected. The contact lens, once a prosthetic device, turns into its opposite- a unique object with authentic optical and visual information, generated by the interaction with an organic body,
- Teardrop Floaters: the visitor’s eye movements are video tracked and algorithmically transferred onto the floater objects,
- and Will-o-the-Wisp: the light of the leds is glaring in the darkness and once it is off a shining circular mark remains on the retina. Similar pictures are additionally projected via videobeam inside the dark room.
Perceptual disturbance is produced by organic irritation and is combined with the virtual version of this characteristic.
White Light, at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London, from 5 April till 4 May, 2006
Private view: 4 April, 6 - 9pm and artist talk: 8 April, 3pm.
from: wmmna
Field under:abstract installation interaction laser led light
John Madejski Garden
Great pieces from the transvision night was a responsive LED sculpture by United Visual Artists. Installed in the John Madejski Garden, from afar looked like people worshiping the arrival of an alien spaceship, whilst up close you could feel the warmth of all those LEDs. As you approached it, custom camera tracking software detected your presence and reacted by changing the visuals and booming out some granular synthesis sounds through the large speakers. This project created a great atmosphere in the garden and had an aura about it. For a better explanation, watch the video.
The design allows the garden to be used both as a simple courtyard garden and as a stage set for display, theatre, parties and events. The terraces on the south side are designed to accommodate cafés and bars.
At night the garden will be dramatically transformed. The lighting has been specially created for the garden by Patrick Woodroffe, lighting designer for the Rolling Stones.
from: Pixelsumo
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