Sonic Bloom
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Category
Integrated LEDs
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Completion
2010
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Artist
Dan Corson
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Project Location
Seattle | USA
Dan Corson´s Artwork straddles the disciplines of Art, Theatrical
Design, Architecture, Landscape Architecture and sometimes even Magic.
His projects have ranged from complex rail stations and busy public
intersections to quiet interpretive buildings, meditation chambers
and galleries. With a Masters Degree in Art from the University of
Washington and a BA in Theatrical Design from San Diego State University,
Corson´s work is infused with drama, passion, layered meanings
and often engages the public as co-creators within his environments.
In the playful context of Seattle Center´s festival grounds,
Sonic Bloom is a permanent interactive art installation at the foot
of Seattle´s Space Needle and a defining entry sculpture to
the Pacific Science Center. 5 giant solar flowers absorb the sun´s
energy and express it at night with patterned LED lighting and in
the daytime with a chorus of interactive harmonic tones triggered
by people´s movement around each flower. The striped stalks
are also massive barcodes that allow inquisitive types to decode the
supersized puzzle.
For this project Kiboworks integrated its X16 LED technology into
the sculptures each the strings of dots are connected to our Mutt
protocol translator and in turn connected via RS485 to a Ethernet
Node linking everything together.
