simulation of changing temperature lighting

System !: Community Space Issue: Lighting Design

Every 15 minutes, different Internet users will be able to redesign a color lighting system surrounding the tables and chairs ofthe cafe hall. Wall fixtures, standing lamps and lighted room dividers purchased from IKEA will serve to divide chair/table combinations into sections providing intimacy for cafe goers. Each light will be outfitted with a lighting system capable of changing into 4-7 colors. From an Internet interactive diagram (see example below) Internet participants will be able to design a lighting arrangement which will then the immediately executed in the actual architectural space. The results will be visable through a webcam. Internet participants can create different moods or arrangements of emphasis in certain areas. This system representsa caring gesture towards individuals and the cafe as a collective space, a space which also offers itself to the community of the internet.

simulation of lighting installed in San Jose Museum cafe

System II: My Mood For You: Airflow Image

Every 15 minutes Internet users and visitors to the installation space will be able to upload an image which represents their current condition which will then be translated into the wind speeds of a grid of overhead fans. The image is thereby gently blown down as variated air currents upon visitors in the installation space. The technical process translates each uploaded image into a grayscale grid of approximately 8 x 11 pixels. The grayscale level of each pixel is then it translated into a 10% speed increment in the grid of fans (see example below). Uploading can be done remotely from the internet or directly through a computer station in the space. Visitors will be able to view the image which is currently being translated into overhead aircurrents. This system is meant to access the notion of image as encapsulatiing the mood or condition of the self. This condition is then offered to the public as an immersive space. It mirrors the fundamental sense and proliferation of websites dedicated to contributing a image of self to the public space of the net. In this activity the image condition is sent as a kind of message to unknown recipients.

simulation of 88 fans installed in cafe ceiling

visualization of fan airflow image moving downwards

Net-Gift Mood System III: Public Mood, Light Temperature

This installation/network artwork is inspired by the common wearable “mood ring,” which displays the emotional condition as color hue. At the request of remote and installation viewers, this project utilizes varying cultural color models, a search engine and data processing to find the color mood of a current public issue represented by Internet news. The color is then transferred to bays of colored ceiling lights. Viewers are immersed in “mood” lighting that is both a gift and representation of current public conditions.

Net-Gift Mood Systems: This project represents one of three Internet controlled atmospheric mood systems conceived. Each represents a variation of net-gift or net transfer of remote concern translated telematically into spacial lighting and airflow. The installations transform the directives of surveillance, home automation and open-sourced Internet applications into possibilities for network participation in architectural mood. In the process image is translated into immersive airflow, news is translated into light temperature and an individual design sensibility becomes public color space. The works explore the possibilities of redirecting economies of control into caring or gift economies. Distant optical or virtual relationships merge with tangible corporeal room conditions.