Commissioned for Milan 2010, Jason Bruges Studio’s latest creation is a captivating artwork featuring Lumiblade OLEDs.
Mimosa is an interactive artwork displaying behavior that mimics responsive plant systems.The piece was inspired by the Mimosa family of plants, which change kinetically to suit their environmental conditions.
The studio has used the slim form of individual OLEDs to create delicate light petals, forming flowers, which open and close in response to visitors.
MAB 2010 is a production of the MAI – Media Architecture Institute, Vienna
Sunlight and new media are fascinating! Let’s redirect and pixelate natural light! Pixel Sonne integrates the unchangeable dynamic and ephemeral beauty of sunlight to form a media façade.
It is a responsive yet subtle medium that uses the universal language of natural light to spark communication amongst people. Pixel Sonne is based on high-tech devices but evokes a feeling of only slightly touching digital aspects.
The concept Pixel Sonne is about combining natural conditions of public spaces and today’s technologies. This is a way of taming natural light up to a certain extent. The ingredients are: The Sun / People / Mirrors / Microcontrollers / DC Motors / Sensors / Photovoltaics / Internet / Smart Phones
BLIP’s new installation for the artist Daniel Canogar marks the opening of the Spanish Presidency of the EU. Between 28th and 30th December 2009 BLIP completed this major art installation in the Council of the European Union, Brussels. Collaborating with Daniel Canogar, BLIP has used its P37 display and PixelBus technology to realise a 37m LED sculpture suspended 10m above the ground in the atrium of the Justus Lipsius building. Conceived as a looping strip of display visible in daylight, the installation allows Canogar’s work to reflect in the glass and marble surfaces of the atrium, creating a very large field of moving imagery depicting migration and the transforming population of the EU.
Daniel Canogar said of the project: “The sculptural screen, [...] has an undulating shape and includes a full loop [...] long and thin, it resembles a pathway suspended in mid-air. The screen displays videos of people walking or crawling, taken with an overhead camera. The images mirror the constant flow of people that cross the atrium. The workers, politicians, advisers and visitors of the European Council animate the building and, consequently, the European project. The sinuous forms of the installation create multiple perspectives as the figures climb over the loop in the display – appearing and disappearing through the length of the screen. The imagery is also reflected on the building facades and the glass ceiling of the atrium, amplifying the visual effect.”
via/by: blipcreative.com
by: danielcanogar.com
The moon project was designed for the Xiamen City Park,
during the Xiamen Expo.
The steel structure is coverd with glued glass an has a diameter of 36 meters and a total surface of 1788 M2
The design idea originated from the orbit wich is drawn by the moon while circling around earth. Led´s used were deliverd by AHL – in total 80,000pcs of the S-9 type has been used.
By/via: ledahl.net
The shopping mall Zeilgalerie is famous well beyond Frankfurts city limits and since its existence has formed a central part of the town centre of the city. The commission includes the comprehensive redesign of the façade and the public areas of the interior.The most significant feature of the redesign is the complexly composed façade with its dynamically programmed light orchestration. The softly pulsating light ornamentation of the media façade includes a large variety of aesthetic light images: Clear-cut geometrical patterns transform fluently into organic interplays of light and shadow; delicate linear accents alternate with striking large-scale effects. The interplay of several diversely designed façade levels makes for fascinating overlaying effects and visual depth.The interior design concept takes up the original idea of a vertical urban structure and realises it in a contemporary visual design idiom.
by/via: 3deluxe.de, leuro.com
Light sails are used as guiding symbols for the state exhibition around the Millstaetter Lake, Austria. The objects are abstract sails, as a “light-space-installation”. The objects are orientated to the lake. The lake Millstaetter Lake is getting a tribune out of water, because the energy of the lake is trapped, converted and reflected as light. So the sails are working as a transmitter and receiver at the same time. The illumination of the light sails itself is reacting to the surrounding – the more people approaching the sails the more vibrate light. The illumination is also reacting to the temperature – they are constantly changing their color. The colder the temperature the warmer the color of light is getting and inverse. In the dawn the integrated moving heads start their show. They elevate from water surface of the lake. The cone of lights raise and drop, they pulsate, they are reflected by the water. They connect and show the way from one light sail to another one.
via: nait5.com
by: soehnepartner.com
Sea Organ and Greeting to the Sun are two public installations by architect Nikola Bašic on the coastline of Zadar, Croatia. Sea Organ consists of 35 musically tuned whistle openings facing the sea. The moving tides push air through the tubes and plays a random harmonic melody, augmenting the sound of the sea and emphasising the ambient sounds of the coast. Greeting to the Sun has sensors which store energy for a light show at night.
via: nait5.com, tzzadar.hr
by: Nikola Bašic
After having seen a video of the well known Led Throwies, Motoi Ishibashi decided to make something similar to brighten up everyone´s smile!
The Tampa Museum of Art commissioned digital light artist Leo Villareal to design an installation for the façade of the new museum. The exterior of the new facility features programmable light emitting diodes (LEDs), 45 feet high and 300 feet long, embedded within two-layers of perforated aluminum panels. In daylight, the museum’s façade creates a moiré-like pattern, and in darkness Villareal’s LED installation will illuminate downtown Tampa.
“As we finalized the plans for our new building, we became more committed to the incorporation of a permanent public art component as part of the building,” Todd D. Smith, the museum’s executive director recently commented. “LED lights were always a part of the overall design of the museum’s architect Stanley Saitowitz. As our museum opens its doors, it was vitally important that we make a statement about the nature of what visitors can expect from the museum experience.” “Leo is one of the pioneers in utilizing light media within the context of architecture. We wanted a bold pronouncement that one of the new directions for our collection and exhibition offerings will be in the arena of new media, and we could not think of a more appropriate artist to launch our commitment to this area than Leo Villareal.” “I am inspired by the building’s clean, minimal expanse,” said Leo Villareal. “The Tampa Museum of Art is ideally situated in a dynamic city surrounded by beautiful parks, the riverfront and university. “Sky (Tampa)” will reflect the life and activity around it, functioning as a mirror to a diverse audience.”
by: leo villareal
via: karmatrendz.wordpress.com, tampamuseum.org
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