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Swarm Light [Inspiration, Events]

Swarm Light is the latest project by rAndom International as a part of the Designer of the Future award exhibition at this year’s Design Miami / Art Basel. It is an experimental light installation with a real ‘collective consciousness’, subtly reacts to the viewer’s audible presence.

The installation is a contemporary example of how the arbitrary boundaries of fine and decorative art, design and utility are no longer of immediate aesthetic relevance. An apparently inanimate object, ‘Swarm‘ unites crucial aspects of rAndom international‘s continued experimentation with light, behavioural responses and interactive spatial environments. The viewers‘ presence creates a soundscape that directly alters the behaviour of the entire environment surrounding ‘Swarm Light‘. Human presence brings a basic form of artificial intelligence to life. Sounds or movement captured as light and shadow create a type of participatory and performative synæsthesia that culminates in an instinctual perception of the space, rather than a cerebral judgement.

LEDs, polished brass, custom software, custom electronics, corian top box, microphones, computer.
dim: 81cm by 81cm per cube

rAndom will take part in the Designer of the Future talks with Cedric Morisset on Thursday, June 17, from 5.50PM at the Mezzanine Level in Halle 5. Basel, Switzerland.

Project Page

Photos by f11collective.com

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Posted on: 21/06/2010

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  • Yuriko

    I want to know the name of this music.Could you tell me?Someone…please.
    この動画に使われている曲がめちゃめちゃ好きです。
    ぜひタイトルとか作者とか知りたいのですが、どなたかご存知の方教えていただけませんでしょうか？