Doug Aitken / 3 Modern Figures (don't forget to breathe)
Time-synced LED content delivery system, Programming, Electronics Design2019
3 Modern Figures (don’t forget to breathe), an installation by Doug Aitken, meditates on the rapid changing face of technology framed within a relic of our modern past. The atmosphere of the desolate storefront presents a possibility that a chapter of capitalism has completed its life cycle and we are entering the next era where the world mirrors the physical one.
For the second edition of the work,
polygonfuture
was approached by Doug Aitken Studio
and NightLightLabs to create a flexible, robust, and one-of-a-kind synchronized audio-visual LED playback system for Aitken’s work.The playback system allowed allowed each individual art piece to function on its own or in unison with one or more of its sibling works. It was designed to be a hands-off, fuss free system that was easily run and maintained by collectors or institutions with little or no intervention once installed.
TECHNIQUES
Arduino
Raspberry Pi
Python
Arduino
Raspberry Pi
Python
CLIENT
NightLightLabs
Doug Aitken Workshop
NightLightLabs
Doug Aitken Workshop
Installation View:
“Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the (21st) century.” - J.G. Ballard