Art and Design in Italy are closely linked. While design is based on functionality, art can freely experiment with abstract concepts, without the constraint of being useful. Antonio Barrese, artist and designer, has designed Alberodiluce (Treeoflight), a colossal kinetic and light sculpture, which exceeds 30 meters in height, that will be presented in Milan 18th December 2009.
Truly distinguishing in Alberodiluce is that the resulting visual effect can only be guessed, but not definable a priori, since it needs functioning to be set. It is only through the real time combination of the rotation and the pulse of the many colored LED lights that you can see Alberodiluce: perception and function are not separable. For this reason, a flexible, yet simple, control system is essential to realize the will of the artist.
LuxPulse has designed and built the control system of the TreeofLight, working closely with AEMI, which realized the electronics and the embedded software. The system consists of a software with a dedicated interface for the setting and the storing of different parameters related to the colors and the ignition timing of the LEDs columns. Datas are transmitted via ArtNet protocol over a wireless network, made with WiliGear devices, to a DMXPen interface which stores them permanently and pilots the AEMI control units.
More information about this work of Kinetics Light Art is available on the dedicated blog: AlberodiLuce.
Interface for the controlling software
