Light Bug
Interactive Light Art Swing
Light Bug is a digitally enhanced swing that brings responsive light, colour and sound to galleries, festivals, events and future playgrounds. It invites people of all ages to play, through digital interactivity, in both imaginative and physical ways.
Created by
Tine Bech Studio
Photos by Max McClure, Paul Blakemore, Seth Giddings and Tine Bech
Originally commissioned by REACT Play Sandbox
Presented at
Playground, Millennium Gallery Children’s Media Conference, 2018
REACT Rooms Festival, Bristol, 2015
Play Sandbox launch, Pervasive Media Studio, 2015
It was magic sitting on a swing with lights and seeing colours change around me."Participant visiting Light Bug at the REACT festival ‘The Rooms’ in Bristol
Swinging triggers light and sound reactions, the whole swing is programmed to respond to play, and to suggest different kinds of play activity and experience. Light Bug works with light, rhythm and sound to create a welcoming environment for the interactive light art.
Light Bug takes the art of the swing to the next level to show us a glimpse of the future of the creative playground and create a truly immersive and mesmerising experience that will thrill and delight children and adults of all ages.
The playground swing is one of life’s simplest pleasures. Feeling your suspended body move through space, rising and falling in a fixed arc that flows first with then against, the pull of gravity, is both thrilling and reassuring. It remains a peerless, timeless invention and an open invitation to play, for children and adults alike.
