http://www.justinlui.net Pursuing responsive media in the physical world, by exploring the intersections between media technology and architecture to create objects, installations, and building surfaces which are dynamic and intelligent. Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:16:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past two weeks or so, I've been building a full-size test in the DMA installation room. Here's a look at it so far. The fibers are looking good (thanks to the hired help of many undergraduate students), though they can feel a little sticky when walking / wading ... http://www.justinlui.net/2009/05/03/construction-testing/ http://www.justinlui.net/2009/04/24/fiberfield-measured-drawing-v2/ Narrowing down to material specifics now. Here's a measured drawing showing the basic massing and shape of the fiber-optic volume, frame/screen system, and unistrut hanging structure. This drawing is already being superseded by an updated version (to be posted soon). http://www.justinlui.net/2009/04/18/fiberfield-measured-drawing/ A final scheme was finally decided last week - this installation will interact with people by creating trails of light as the physically engage and pass through its thicket of fiber-optic filaments. http://www.justinlui.net/2009/04/18/fiberfield/ 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 ... http://www.justinlui.net/2009/03/30/fiber-optic-filaments-longer-v_02/      http://www.justinlui.net/2009/03/18/fiber-optic-filaments-longer/ A slight adjustment to the LED canopy, changing the heights of the LED+rods, making a more random LED arrangement which moves a step away from the grid.                 http://www.justinlui.net/2009/03/17/led-canopy-v02/ Here finally is a new post after a long absence (I've been busy working on the project).  After several experiments with various materials, I've settled on the arrangement from the fiber-optic schemes, but with LEDs attached to acrylic rods, instead of fiber-optic filaments. The presence of people triggers the LEDs to ... http://www.justinlui.net/2009/03/15/led-canopy/ Here's a scale model of of what the Tensile Mylar Curtain could look like installed.  The idea is to install it with the t-wall in the Wight Gallery.  The t-wall emphasizes the separation between each side of the wall, as it extends the journey required to move from one side ... http://www.justinlui.net/2009/02/25/tensile-mylar-curtain-model/ Our class had a deadline today for an in-progress rough draft of our thesis paper.  The class is taught by Peter Lunenfeld, and in a meeting with him, it became clear to both of us that I had not yet honed in on a specific critical position on media+architecture.  What ... http://www.justinlui.net/2009/02/23/in-search-of-a-thesis/