Lightlines
This project was produced by TAB LABS
Created for the 2018 Waller Creek Show, Light Lines is inspired by the network of waterways and storm pipes that flow throughout Austin’s urban grid. Individually, they are often overlooked, but collectively they come together to form very powerful bodies of water. Societal understanding and interaction with these waterways is important at both the micro and macro scales. By creating a conceptual representation of the movement of water using pulsating light, sound, and form, Lightlines offers an abstract immersion into water’s journey. Using an assembly of interconnected electroluminescent wires that suspend from a structural grid, Lightlines collectively forms an intense volume of changing light and ambient sound driven by over 1000 individual strands. The result is a message to viewers that the urban watershed is a system where “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” This project was created in collaboration with Campbell Landscape Architecture.
Year Produced: 2018
Dimensions: 40’x100’
Materials: 1000 strands of electroluminescent wire, custom electronics and physical computing system to drive wires, custom graphics software to drive lines, truss.
Technique: Environmental data visualization, generative volumetric graphics, octophonic sound.
Credits: Curation - Waterloo Greenway Creek Show; Collaborators: Campbell Landscape Architecture
Keywords: TAB Labs, Waller Creek, light art, volumetric, public art
