ICC





Preface
Admission
Works




"I/O Bulb"
"Strata/ICC"
"TouchCounters "
"ClearBoard-1"
"PingPongPlus "
"Pinwheels"
"Triangles"
"MusicBottles"
"Curlybot"
"HandScape"
"InTouch"
Participation Artist's
Related Events




Artists' Talk
Symposia
Symposia
Catalog

June 23 (Friday) - July 9 (Sundayday), 2000 [Finished] Gallery A





Works


"Triangles "
Matt Gorbet, Maggie Orth, Ali Mazalek, Tim Lu, Will Arora, Emily Cooper, James Hsiao, Ishii Hiroshii





Pinwheels is an ambient display that spins in a wind of digital information(bits). The spinning pinwheels allow people to feel the flow of bits representing human activities or happenings in the natural world in their peripheral vision while they concentrate on other activities (such as conversation) in the foreground. For example solar winds. An astronomer following the activities of a solar corona could install these pinwheels in his or her home in order to monitor them in the background. Being peripherally aware of subtle changes in solar activity leading up to significant events could help the astronomer time periods of intensive observation. The basic concept is to make solar winds of ionized particles and all kinds of other information flows perceptible in architectural space as a "wind" driving old-fashioned pinwheels.