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Outrace [Events]

The London Design Festival has commissioned Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram to design this year’s Trafalgar Square installation.

From September 16 to 23, their project entitled OUTRACE, will empower the general public to take control of eight industrial robots on loan from Audi’s production line. Both visitors to the square, as well as a global web audience will be able to interact with the installation online. Each robot arm weighing over 1200kg with maximum reach of 3.1 meters is fitted with fluorescent lamp controlled to “draw” a letter. Logging in to http://www.outrace.org/ with a mobile device or computer, a global audience will be able to send text messages to the robots, directing the paths of the lights held by the robotic tentacles into the letter forms of the user’s text message. Long-exposure cameras capture these interactive light paintings and will email them back to the original author and the project website.

In the weeks leading up to the event, the OUTRACE installation is being built up and tested in a hall at Audi’s Ingolstadt headquarters.

Dates: 16 – 23 September, Trafalgar Square, London, UK.

Follow the development on OUTRACE Facebook page.

(Thanks Pieter)

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