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Posted January 24th 2009 under Installations, Kinetic, Light, openFrameworks
Beacon is a kinetic light installation with a mind of its own. An array of emergency beacon lights interacts with visitors, tracking their movement through the space, creating an immersive and playful experience.
A collaborative project between myself (Chris O’Shea) and Cinimod Studio.
The installation exploits a transfer of technologies from existing industrial products. The beacon lights have had their internal parts replaced with custom hardware, enabling the rotation of the reflector and lamp brightness to be individually controlled. Thermal imaging cameras have been adapted to track the participants’ movement through the space.
‘Beacon’ is orchestrated in real-time by a bespoke control system, which uses tracking information from the cameras to coordinate an interactive and highly responsive behaviour.
Electrical Design and Engineering by White Wing Logic
Comments
(January 26th 2009)
Chris, this is amazing! Just watched the clip on Vimeo - really really like it (some great footage of that boy running round the light!) shame it’s in Dublin though! :(
Anyway well done mate!