In Vancouver are these awesome spot lights that ANYONE (with internet access and a laptop aka on this side of the digital divide) CAN CONTROL and move. Click here to participate in this virtually immersive experience.
have fun,
zee
(from the page)
Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada. Using a three-dimensional interface, this web site lets you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay. A web page is made for each participant with photos of their design from four cameras located around the city.
check out the You Tube Video
from the skinny blog: http://heavyworld.com/theskinny/?p=514
People interested in visiting Vancouver during the 2010 Winter Games will have an added incentive to explore the city during the two weeks of athletic competition. In celebration of the Olympic games, the city of Vancouver will welcome Vectorial Elevation, a large-scale interactive light installation created by Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The work, which has been previously staged in Spain, Ireland, France and Mexico, features twenty 10,000-watt searchlights which move in concert to create a silent, shifting canopy of light. Vectorial Elevation is one of the world’s largest interactive artworks.
from Mark Tribe @ Brown: https://wiki.brown.edu/confluence/display/MarkTribe/Rafael+Lozano-Hemmer
Technologies: 18 robotic 7kW xenon searchlights, 4 webcams, TCP/IP to DMX converter, Java 3D interface, GPS tracker, linux web and e-mail servers.
Keywords: public, spectacle, telepresence
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