September 11, 2004
POD (Wind Array Cascade Machine)
Nice installation from this year's ISEA:
POD consists of an array of sixty-four movement sensors on a roof in Montreal, Canada and sixty-four corresponding light sculptures at Kiasma. As the wind blows across the roof in Montreal, the sensors gather real-time data and transmit it over the Internet to the light markers in Kiasma. The lights illuminate according to the pressure waves of the wind, showing the audience a visual representation of the pattern related to the amplitude, direction and wave motion of the wind.
Video here: www.fondation-langlois.org/flash/e/stage.php?NumPage=369
[via GTA post here with good reviews of many other ISEA works]
Posted by sfisher at September 11, 2004 08:25 PM | TrackBackComments
People get artistic ideas by means of so deliberately choosed mechanism/medium as to play with the nature, which is defined by mathematicians & physicists with simple and beautiful theorems.
This "Nice Installation" is "smart" also because of its open system, namely media structure--actually as open as how the physical being of our earth has been, and it's seemingly random but so diverse and colorful visual possibilities.
Nature speaks here, we hear not by the ears, but by our eyes.
Posted by: yuechuan at September 12, 2004 05:25 PM
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