Esther Rolinson's Melt
Fri, 19 Dec 2014
The final piece in Esther Rolinson's exhibition of three new artworks at the Phoenix has been installed in the Cube Gallery. Melt is a much larger piece that the first two - Thread and Splinter - and fills the entire gallery space.
The piece consists of angled fabric columns extend from the floor and are illuminated via a matrix of lights embedded in the ceiling. As the lights switch on and off the fabric columns alternate between appearing solid and translucent. The effect is to animate the space and provide an ever changing structure that can be explored by the visitor.
As with the other pieces in the series, I have been involved in helping to design and configure the lighting system. The solution used here is based around theatrical DMX lights that are controlled via an Arduino micro controller that in turn is controlled by a Processing patch running on a Mac mini.
Pictures from the exhibition can be found here on Flickr. The exhibition runs at Phoenix until the 5th January.
