Designboom has posted yet another rockin’ lighting installation, this time at HP’s Palo Alto office lobby. Designed by installation artists Tronic, a series of vertical video panels include sculptural back panels, and each panel automatically rotates to add a kinetic dimension to the design.
Oh yah…all digital video upfront…nothin’ but curves in the back.
Yet another sculpture + projection installation: Designboom has a post on installation called “Morphology“, which employs simple white cubes as projection surfaces. Melbourne artist Kit Webster projects extraordinary digital kaleidoscope effects on the cubes, some of which really distort visual space perspective in amazing ways.
The video is a trippy delight…
Core77 posted an installation called “Augmented Sculpture” by German artists Grosse8 and Lichtfront.
Consisting of an angular wooden sculpture surrounded by four precisely registered video projectors, Lichtfront seamlessly projects a dazzling sequence of patterns onto the sculpture.
These guys should get T-shirts made up that say: “Trigonometry rocks my world!”
I found this older post on Design Boom: Sculptor Olafur Eliasson from Copenhagen created an interesting configurable geometric system prototype for sculptural pendant fixtures.
Yanko Design posted a nice concept by designer Seo Dong-Hun for an adjustable ceiling lighting system with individually remote-controlled LED pixels. Completely doable with current technology…just cost prohibitive.
Electroland is a Los Angeles firm that focuses on interactive lighting installations for public spaces.
SEED Magazine has an interesting piece on bioluminescent organisms.
One paragraph in particular reads like Mother Nature’s version of interactive lighting control:
“Their lights have a variety of purposes: Camouflage, attracting mates, attracting (or distracting) prey have all been observed. In animals with nervous systems, in most cases, neural activity initiates the bioluminescence. But in the velvet belly lantern shark, Lynn says, researchers found that the glowing was not caused by nerve cells. Instead, it seemed, certain hormones controlled the glow: Melatonin and prolactin turned it on, and a hormone called Alpha-MSH turned it off. This makes some sense, as melatonin is activated by darkness (it helps control sleeping behavior in humans). This species of shark uses glowing as a form of camouflage.”
