LightResponsiveDevice from Brian Degger on Vimeo.

Doesn’t look like much, but I like the simple stuff. Gives me hope for my future success, as it were…if I can figure this out, I should be good, right?

These lights respond to each other, and create feedback loops. Three colored lights on the “floor” respond to a pair of white lights attached to moving arms, and it seems as though the movement of the arms is in response to the flickering of the lights below. Which influences the colored lights. Which, in turn, continues to affect the movement of the white lights, and so on.

What’s weird is how oddly similar this looks to what I’ve got so far in my Pd project. Colored balls, jerky movements and blinky lights…only this one is in physical space.

From the artist’s blurb about his mini-residency with ISIS Arts:
“Dr. Brian Degger is a new media artist and interdisciplinary researcher, with a doctorate in biotechnology. His investigations (speculative research) occur in the artscience domain (i.e. Biological art, kinetic sculptures and robotics), where artworks are also an open ended experiment. During his mini-residency he was researching interspecies communication, and building devices that communicate with each other using light and movement. The devices were exhibited during CONNECTING PRINCIPLE 08 – DIALOGUE (13-14th November, Newcastle University).”Brian Degger’s blog

Oh yeah, Beth = Bonnie, thx.