Chromatic Play
Interactive Light Installation
Several light sculptures are illuminated from the inside. Glowing, they invite you to interact and change their colour. Each has alien-like antennae fitted with interactive sensors. These reinforce a sense that the object is sentient, that is it is listening and watching as it pulses and glows.
Created by
Tine Bech Studio
Electronics by Louis Christodoulou
Commissioned by Surrey Light Project, and Miles an interdisciplinary research project at the University of Surrey
Presented at
Winter Lights, 2022
Broadgate – British Land, 2017
Banbury Museum, UK 2016
Games London at The Finnish Institute London, 2016
Roseberys Gallery, London, 2015
Victoria and Albert Museum, Digital Weekend, 2014
Microworld Arcadia, Wales 2013
Surrey Light Project, Guildford Castle, 2012
When a visitor is in close proximity to one of the objects, it detects his or her presence. It then changes the colours of the other two objects so that each is exactly the same colour.
Chromatic Play continues Tine Bech's exploration of the role of play in creating social bonds, new forms of communication, and how technology increasingly shapes our ideas of public space and the way we interact with one another. The installation is a playful comment on our ability (and inability) to communicate in an age of seemingly infinite communication possibilities.
Your work is beautiful. This is stunning."
I really liked the baby ones and discovering how I could control the creatures."
