Live Lighting Controls
A Launch Control XL MIDI mapped onto the sculpture: two decks, a crossfade, eight faders of fins and spikes and body, and a serpent that moves on the beat.
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Scenes, channels, patterns, effects and brushes, with thirty three milliseconds a frame on a Raspberry Pi. Plus a simulator that catches the engine's own packets so the sculpture does not have to be in the room.
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A realistic geometry
Chromatik says straight strips and clean helices. The serpent curves. An editor that bends the pixel map into the sculpture's real shape, one stackable layer at a time.
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Naga lands in Golden Gate Park
From a week in the desert to a long-term home in a public park: weatherproof lights, flex conduit and sealed NEMA boxes built for years of weather, and Ethernet through the pond.
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Naga Lighting Black Rock City
A hundred and thirty two feet of steel and mesh, lit from the inside by three different kinds of fixture, and run from a Raspberry Pi buried in one of the humps.
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Lighting and power lead on Dipo Doherty's homage to ancient Benin: 664 pixels on three buses, four eleven inch acrylic eyes, and a Raspberry Pi driving all of it from a 3D model of the pillar.
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Change Not Guaranteed
A trade of one kind of value for another, at Gray Area in 2022. Offer real, tangible change, and a Non-Fungible Change token comes into existence.
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