Kinetica Art Fair 2014
Thu, 16 Oct 2014
I was invited to join Genetic Moo at Kinetic Art Fair this year to show work as part of their Microworld exhibition. I used the opportunity to show two new pieces from my current cycle of systems artworks.
The first was a pair of interacting colour grids of the type I showed at the GV Art exhibition earlier in the year. The difference here being that rather than two systems running on one computer and shown on the same screen, I used two dedicated Raspberry Pi with HDMIPi screens to run the systems. The screens were then placed next to each other on the gallery wall and able to interact with each other via the Raspberry Pis' WiFi connections. I was very pleased with this setup - it was working well and looking good. That was until i managed to crack one of the screens!
The second piece was a pair of framed 8 x 8 LED grids that were able to respond to their environment (and each other) via light sensors. These also worked very well and offered an alternative way to explore the algorithms I have been developing recently. Luckily there were no breakages with this piece and it remained part of the exhibition for the whole show. I like the idea of using LED lights rather than LCD screens, and this is definitely a form I intend to explore further.
There were, of course, plenty of other artworks on display at Kinetica, and it would take many blog posts to describe them all. I have uploaded my pictures from the exhibition here on Flickr and you can find out more on the Kinetica Art Fair website.
