Our friends at Kinecity have posted some new information about the Podium Light Wall they have been working on for the facade of 7 World Trade Center.
The Podium Light Wall is located on the South and North facades of 7 World Trade Center. As people wander on the pavement below a strip of blue light gracefully follows them. This strip of blue light is 7 floors tall and is visible from Freedom Park. The Podium Wall accentuates the individual, and the patterns that are created as many pass by together. Kinecity designed the interactive element of the design for James Carpenter Design Assoc. who were the responsible for the wall as an art piece.
source: information aesthetics
Oh thanks for posting this. I sent it around to some of my colleagues. Coincidentally at least one of them had been curious about who had designed the dialog table.
Comment by bryan kennedy — 5/14/2006 @ 1:29 pm
Hey Bryan,
The first version of the Dialog Table was designed and built by the team that formed Kinecity. That version was shown in the Strangely Familiar exhibition.
The version that is up now is a joint project of the original team and the Walker Art Center (New Media department and Education Department). I worked on the visual design and interface concept with the original team, our media department shot the video and our education department wrote the content. So it was quite a collaborative process, like usually happens on big projects trying new things. It is happily still up and running today as well as it did during the launch (minus one new projector).
Comment by eric — 5/15/2006 @ 8:32 am
Dear Eric,
I know this is unrelated to your above piece but I read about your troubles finding a film for your glass installation. We are at present having the same problem. We are looking for a film to coat a pane of glass onto which text is being back projected in a darkened area. We have found a vikuiti film but this is black and we need a transparent film. I was wondering what film you used for your glass in the end?
Best,
Niamh.
Comment by Niamh — 5/19/2006 @ 8:12 am
Niamh,
I have a past post explaining the film choices here.
As I recall the Da-Lite Holo Screen material was the best quality and most transparent. It was very expensive though. We ended up using a non-optical frosted film. It works okay for our situations and designs but it is not a great solution for everyone. The Kimoto film listed in the post was also very good quality and bright, not transparent but it was translucent.
Good luck
Comment by eric — 5/19/2006 @ 8:45 am