René Christen. Creative Technologist, Artist and co-founder of Code on Canvas.






 

Earth Light Seat was a project developed with a small team for artist D.V. Rogers. The installation animates realtime seismic data across a map of the world, coloured according to the Moment Magnitude Scale Color Schema (MwLUX). At fixed intervals the piece would play a time lapse animation of all the large earthquakes from the last 30 years. See the site for more details.

The backend application was built in python by Snow from Holly / House of Laudanum, which sent OSC to a front end application I built with Cinder that then communicated to the lights using Art-net. I have done a lot of work with LEDs before but the interface for these was an ideal blend of plug and play ease and customisability for a coder. DV currently does custom fit outs of this and a variety of other LED tech through 3LED.

 

 


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Flight data turned into a sublime spatial experience.

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Electricity, water and children. Together at last!


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