Final Year Studio - Research - SPOTS - Sensor

Image courtesy of www.spots-berlin.de, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).

Created by Carsten Nicolai 'Sensor' was and installation that reflected the movement, density and frequency of its urban enivronment. Based on sensors located around the media facade Nicolai's visualization constantly regenerated and redesigned itself. Such parameters as traffic, time of day, brightness and noise level all decided what was shown on the facade. These attirbutes as well as infared signals then determined the various light gradients and modulations shown to turn the facade into a 'mirror image' of the city.

This specific installation I thinks directly targets how we move around our cities at various times of day. Very much like new archtecture, with its glass walls, reflects its predecessors, Sensor interperates its surroundings. It tries to make sense of them and in turn changes our perception of what exactly our environment is there for. Due to SPOTS media facades shape it gives the impression of touch and makes you feel like you can internally explore it, widening its 'Informaion Bandwidth.' Also using Edmund Burke's notion of 'Gradual Variation' this urban building is turned it something that is natural and beautiful in its being.

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