Justin Lui

Sketches showing the proposed full-size installation in the Wight Gallery, by the T-wall.  The overhead structure is made of modules of window screens, which hold individual fibers in place.

The filaments now hang longer, and formally they have a ‘flow’, evolving from a more regular system up top, to a more organic and naturally-accumulating mass at the bottom.  

For the lighting animation, I looked again at fireflies.  In this video, the fireflies have gradually synced their light pulses, in order to collectively attract mating partners.

These videos show my current fiber-optic arrangement with a very preliminary firefly-like lighting sequence.  I’d like to have the animation fluctuate somewhere between that of an autonomous firefly light pattern, and a responsive one that is activated by people’s localized presence (like my end-of-quarter LED installation).