Debuting during the Panorama Festival, Infinity, tiles of virtual space is a self-propelled installation of interactive art and light created by New York-based designer Gabriel Pulecio.
The space creates a total immersion experience, combining light, sound and volume to introduce the visitor inside a seemingly borderless three-dimensional digital matrix, animated by interactive graphics and abysses of light and darkness, which seem to float in the middle of infinity.
Once inside, the structure immediately explodes into a constantly changing landscape, reminding us that we exist in the present and our every action has a palpable effect on our surroundings.
Thanks to the use of kinect sensors embedded in the ceiling, the visitor activates beams of light from the floor to create a new digital scenery, accompanied by sounds that generate a sensory resonance. The algorithms that create the lighting design, as well as the sounds, ensure that the experience is unique for each visitor within the installation.
The concept of infinity is used on a wide variety of levels: the lighting design features 25 custom-made laser-cut panels with a combination of bi-directional acrylic sheets and mirror, a total of 10,000 LED lights defining a hexagonal grid, with each light infinitely reflected in the darkness.
The interior of the rectangular room acts as a portal to infinity, reflecting each of the walls and floor and multiplying them in every direction. Unlike other infinity cubes using projectors or other systems to superimpose graphic effects in space, Infinity incorporates a large number of LED lights within the reflective panels, like a huge digital screen, programmed using software touchdesigner. Each of the programmed lights allows for an infinity of graphic effects, ranging from the simplest shapes or single dots, to the most total chromatic and luminous chaos, giving the visitor an experience of absolute conceptual purity.
Recently, the Infinity Cube was used for the filming of the movie Emotions portrait as a backdrop for a dance scene, in a production by the Brooklyn studio Yess Boss.
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Source: designboom.com
