LIGHT DRIFT
LIGHT DRIFT is a collaboration installation art project between the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and artist J. Meejin Yoon They placed a temporary interactive lighting installation along Schuylkill Banks between Market and Chestnut Streets from October 15 to 17 in the year 2010. The project created a field of lighting elements that drew viewers into a playful engagement with the artwork, the river, and each other.
J. Meejin Yoon used the lighting elements that are shaped like orbs or buoys and equipped with electronics that allow them to respond to a viewer and to communicate with each other. The orbs on land use sensors to detect the presence of a person and relay a radio signal to the corresponding orbs in the water, allowing visitors to transform the lighting behavior and color of the orbs in the river.
As viewers come and occupy the orbs along the park, the grid of lights in the water will interact to the land of where people are crowding the place. Multiple viewers can create intersections of linear patterns that can encourage viewers to ‘play’ with each other. These orbs bring the community together by providing gathering spaces for watching the river turn into a flickering constellation, creating new connections on the river’s edge.
The technology of making the electronic to detect the presence of living life can be a little bit tricky to me, since it involves a very precise electronic tampering to the equipment and lots of trials and errors before a successful project becomes truly appreciated. In this project, it really shows how well the efforts of teamwork, since the artist has made a collaboration with the others.
Plus, this kind of works can bring a lot of people together to have some fun, in the same time appreciating the nature.
Site source: http://muralarts.org/explore/projects/light-drift-0
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