Through all the research on Unusual materials and then on Blingcrete and material experimentation I came up to an idea for an installation. It would be an interesting way to examine how people respond to an interactive artwork in a city.

The installation would be a high wall of hundreds of small led lights. Using a light sensor, it would turn on its lights progressively when the sun started to go down and as it got darker would light more. At the end of the night it would be full of lights. The next step of the Lighting Wall would allow users around the city to send a message on a specific number. This number would enable the message to be shown on the Lighting Wall and illustrate the letters, like a digital display. It would be made out of cement to blend in with city environment that is full of concrete and lights.

So, I used the materials to make prototype of my installation idea. I used cement and sixty small lights. To succeed this I made a rectangle made of cement. Then I opened holes with a straw before it gets dry. After it dried I passed through sixty small lights and stuck them with plasticine. I turned them on and the result was fascinating. When I did that I actually thought of lots of things that you could do with that kind of

lighting like decorating a minimal house with this unusual lamp or even have a smart lighting in a bar , by your drink.

The photographs show the materials and development of the idea in mock up style. I took lots of photographs because it was fascinating to play with the lighting effect on the camera. Then I edited some in Photoshop to show how it would actually look in the real installation, I did patterns and tried to make it look like rhythmically moving.

Because of money cost I did the experiment with cheap materials, but definitely with a more solid plan it would be great to see the idea come alive at somepoint. The real installation would be big enough to be in a city’s centre.

With much more lights and special ones to resist weather conditions. The interactive user would achieve showing his message by sending a text to a particular number, The best medium I would use to do that is by Arduino or Processing.

Link: http://charapitsillidou.gdnm.org/category/hand-made-high-tech-design-museum-brief/

Hand Made High Techinspired by Blingcrete material

Development of the final artifact The Light Wall