thesystemis.com

• http://thesystemis.com/projects/mesa-di-voce/
• http://thesystemis.com/projects/night-lights/
• http://www.yesyesno.com/night-lights/

moving from gallery to street and watching to participating —> playful

“viewer becomes the doer””

Kimsooja

http://www.kimsooja.com/works_installations.html

esp. Lotus: Zone of Zero – http://www.kimsooja.com/projects/Lotus_Samsung_2011.html

John Powers – piece in MIT Museum

http://www.john-powers.com/home.html

Frank Malina

rocket engineer turned artist – founded Leonardo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Malina

http://www.leonardo.info/leoinfo.html

“Lumino-Kinetic art”

light boxes – like we imagine a human aura would look like

• lights on back panel
• rotating disk (rotor) in front (mask)
• painted layer (stator)
• diffusing layer

“reflectodyne system” – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kenu8DZ8Xp8

http://www.olats.org/pionniers/malina/arts/electricLight.php

Theo Jansen

a few Lego versions:

• https://ideas.lego.com/projects/17242
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpEJ-Ij0yns
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KajjY8y3j8o
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD4nkcTaVDg

Maker (3D printed) versions:

• http://www.makershed.com/products/mini-rhinoceros-strandbeest-kit
• http://www.makershed.com/products/strandbeest-kit
• http://www.3ders.org/articles/20120820-theo-jansen-3d-printed-strandbeests-here-are-the-lego-and-bamboo-version.html

“there’s the ‘human part’ and the ‘representational part’” — Jen