Whiteout

© Video 1: Opening on November 16, 2017Video 2: Aerial shots, March 2018 ; Erwin Redl (artist)

Erwin Redl

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Co-workers & Funding
Funded by the Madison Square Park Conservancy
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Description
Hundreds of transparent white spheres, each embedded with a discrete, programmed, white LED light are suspended from a square grid of steel poles and cabling. They form a luminous white carpet across the Park's central Oval Lawn. The orbs are opportunistic, gently swaying with the wind currents from their positions of two-feet above the ground plane. The white LEDs are animated in large-scale patterns superimposing a virtual movement on top of the kinetic movement of the spheres. The sequence of light is a luminous treatment of urban public space across the dark seasons of the late fall and winter.
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • ephemeral
    • installation-based
    • sculptural
    • site-specific
  • genres
    • installations
  • subjects
    • Nature and Environment
  • technology
    • displays
      • non-electronic displays
Technology & Material
Installation Requirements / Space
173 x 107 x 12 ft / 53 x 33 x 4 m (L x W x H)
Material
Kinetic Light Installation, 900 programmable white LED-spheres, steel poles, wire rope
Exhibitions & Events
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