무선통신으로 연결되어 연쇄적으로 동작하는 다수의 키네틱 모듈로 구성된 대형 공간을 위한 인스톨레이션 작품 연구

Abstract

A tendency in large-scale new media installation arts is to build media façades or immersive experience environments using overwhelming amounts and sizes of light displays covering the whole area of an architectural structure, involving the intensive use of capital, materials, and technology. In this research, a different approach was taken with regard to kinetic light art installations, in which lights are used sparingly and are sparsely distributed in the space. In this appropriate installation approach, a minimalistic attitude is taken where the installation is built with simple materials and technology, and modestly takes only the appropriate amount of space at the installation site. In this approach, an installation does not intend to conquer and change the site into something new but only to signify and amplify the identity of the site space. To achieve this goal, the installation takes the form of computational media, generatively adding life to the space in real time and interactively responding to the people living in the space. An installation prototype, Waves, composed of eleven kinetically waving light wands about the size of a hand, was developed. They are distributed in a large, long corridor space and form a large moving wave of light along the space. The light wave has two modes: generative small tides and interactive large waves. To achieve the choreographic functionality, a daisy chain network topology of small wireless networks among three modules in series is used. This type of network is feasible for large-scale installations because it is self-contained and independent of the internet infrastructure, while also allowing for the easy addition of new modules. This research is unique in its approach to overlapping areas of kinetics, light, and network art. The result of this research may provide a platform for future installation works in this area, including the use of other forms of media, other sizes of modules, other methods of interaction with users, and other ways to arrange such modules in space, just to list a few.