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

Storm Room,Cardiff and Miller, 2009

[Artist’s website]

Have you ever found refuge from a summer shower under the eaves? This piece shows that it is not safe even under a roof. Lightening and shadows of trees surround the windows. It shows you things normally not visible, creating a storm that can really be felt.

A computer controls the flow of water, the lights, the strobes, and the fans, etc. An ambisonic sound track plays through 8 hidden speakers and 2 hidden subwoofers. The piece begins as the storm approaches, with no water hitting the windows, then proceeds to the incredibly loud, floor shaking climax. As the storm dissipates the sound of someone moving and coughing in the next room is heard and then the piece starts again. This work was created in a deserted dentist’s office in a traditional Japanese house near the city of Tokamachi, Japan as part the Echigo Tsumari Art Triennial 2009.

All Photos from: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2009 | Takenori Miyamoto + Hiromi Seno

 

Pulse Room, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, 2006

Pulse Room in Aarhus, Denmark,2009

Pulse Room 2006

About 100 (analog/classic) light bulbs are hung from ceiling of the installation site.

The bulbs plays a sequence of blinking. Every singe bulb represents and actually repeats heartbeat of past participants as 1 by 1 correspondence.

Sequence of how new participant joins is as following.

One of audience grabs a handle which heartbeat sensor is embedded.

It takes a short while until the sensor stabilize its readout. When it is done, whole order of pulses of bulbs shifts 1 (the oldest is now gone). And the new beat joins.

(Aug 2011)