Artist Statement
The future is not written, it evolves and changes based on our actions. Each of these cranes represent a person who hopes and dreams, our presence or absence determines whether the cranes take flight or remain afloat. I first started thinking about a piece like this during the summer of 2006 when it felt that all of Washington DC was being inundated by flooding and rain. Unlike other times when this had happened, there was no hurricane or specific reason for the flooding, it was just days and days of rain. I wanted to explore the intersection of hope and action through a piece that requires action on the part of the viewer to function.
Production Notes
This piece used real-time rendering using video game technologies combined with live sensor data and internet feeds. The origami cranes are repeatedly released into the environment along with the image of a person who had expressed the phrase “I hope” in their Twitter feed. As a viewer approaches the projection, sensor data triggered the flight of the cranes. Without viewers the cranes were left to drift until eventually they dissolved into the void.
Size
- maximum screen size: 1920X1200 pixels
- optimum size: 1280X1024 pixels
Media
- Mac Mini
- Proximity Sensors
- Plasma Screen display
- Software used : Cinema 4D, Unity, Processing and Arduino