Christian Moeller

[Artist’s website]

Christian Moeller is an artist working with contemporary media technologies to produce innovative and intense physical events, realized from handheld object to architectural scale installations. Over the past two decades, his body of work represents one of the original and most complex investigations of what is possible to be revealed by the intersections of cinema, computation, music and physical space.

Scenarios for Ars Electronica Center

TOPOFILIA.

Overrall concept is: By connecting place and the lighting system interactivery, put the building into the broad experience happens the area. Hence make the building from Background to Foreground of the life.

1)Twitter Pulse/ Mood

Con: Currently speed of the flow of related #tag is quite slow.

Pulse(with speed of flow) with color of mood(of the content)?

2)Light message for locals

Package of light.

2-1)

By Slit-scaning a picture from a phone. This effect adds time-axis to a picture. User may draw a pattern onto paper and take a shot of it.

Slit-scanning method creates linear pattern and a bit boring. So how about adding ‘twist’ effect? (by whom?)

2-2)

Audio message. Lighting visualizes the audio as histogram? User should be on site and wait a bit for the light is going to morph to the audio message.

a)QR code is sent. Receiver shall go visit the museum facade and show QR code on mobile phone’s screen and put it at scanner. Then audio (just for around the scanner) and histogram-animation( on the facade LED) appears.

3)Useful lighting

should include ‘unexpected encounter’ and/or ‘familiar stranger’ function into the app

->Simplified.

Light culumn corresond to the proole nearby

When you simile at the building, the light column arise.(Distance from the building arise)

Kiss, Paul Cocksedge, International Festival of Lights, Milan, 2009

[Article from ‘Designboom’]

[International Festival of Lights]

Kiss, Paul Cocksedge, International Festival of Lights, Milan, 2009, Rendering
Kiss, Paul Cocksedge, International Festival of Lights, Milan, 2009, Rendering