by Jason mcDermott, Liam Ryon, and Frank Maguire for the Vivid 2011 Festival
This project is an innovative light artwork and also a community of friendly intelligent lights that influence one another. The fireflies are programmed to respond to light from their neighbours. In this community, popular fireflies become highly influential, whilst isolated ones must work harder to reach their friends. People can speak the same language and influence the interaction between community members by shining lights on these fireflies.
Technology: This project uses a bunch of fabrication methods including SLA 3D printing, plywood, acrylic laser cutting, polystyrene vacuum forming. It contains 95 components in each unit and eventually there are over 4800 parts for one tree decoration. The electronic part is Arduino Pro Mini.
Interaction: These devices are set up on any physical trees and perform as real fireflies. The people who walk around them have some influence on them and they shine lights according to the surround variants.
Value: This project proposes a more physical way to simulate other creatures' behaviours and explores the beauty of our interaction with our friends who also live on our planet. It gives us some ideas on how to apply fabrication methods to record human's dynamic and casual interaction with creatures which may be helpful for human being to better understand biology. This will be the perspective my final project will stand on and dive into much deeper and further.
Project #2: Firefly
by Jason Krugman for the Flashlight Nuit Blanche event in New York 2011.
The Firefly wind light system constructs a lot of arrays of small LED/switch pairs which sense the wind to light up when wind blows through.
Technology: Adopting LED/switch that sense wind on a small circuit unit. It's principle is that as the wind blows to an electrified wind chime it will contact with the metal gong and close a circuit.
Interaction: It is an huge art installation which is supposed to sense the immediate environment. The wind blows it will change the states of those LED/switch.
Value: This is another project related to fireflies. It shows how to make something belonging to art by using simple sensing technology to react to environment. My reflection to this art installation is that some stimulus can make a tangible design different.
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