SKYLUM/ European Council, Justus Lipsius Building, Brussels, Irish Presidency and Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada 2012/13
SKYLUM/ An interactive installation for Justus Lipsius Council Building, Brussels.
and in CPC Toronto for Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada 2012/13
This fifteen-meter-long inflatable/vessel with its own inner intelligent lighting and multi-layered sound system, which reacted to the proximity and the movement of people below where four camera-based motion detectors were positioned around the area of the installation, tracking their movement and collating patterns within the Atrium to compose a unique and ever-changing sequence of light and sounds which were drawn from a library of prerecorded sound samples. Elements of inhabitation, performance and monumentality are brought together to expand on the dialogue between the natural world and the human-made environment. The theatrical qualities of the work enhanced their experience by both drawing out and extending the boundary between one and the other; evoking ephemerality and reflecting on the relationship humans have with their environment.
Computer programmer and software designer Erik Kearney