San Francisco's Carpenters Workshop Gallery is staging an exhibition of works by Studio Drift that aim to showcase the "intersection of nature and technology".
DRIFT: About Nature, Technology and Humankind features site-specific installations that explore the intersection of nature and technology
DRIFT: About Nature, Technology and Humankind features site-specific installations and video presentations of projects by the Dutch artistic collective.
Suspended from the ceiling in Carpenters Workshop Gallery is the interactive piece Flylight, an installation made up of 300 cylindrical glass tubes, each intended to represent a flying bird.
The piece incorporates software that responds to stimuli in its immediate environment to simulate the behaviour of a flock of starlings flying through the sky as a collective unit. Among these is Flylight, an installation is made up of 300 cylindrical glass tubes that are intended to represent a flying bird
It comprises glass tubes filled with a sensor and lights that sense visitors as they approach and triggers the light will follow them around them ? similar to movement pattern used by swarms of starling birds.
"It consists of delicate glass tubes that light up in an unpredictable way, partially responsive to external stimuli," Studio Drift said. "The patterns, in which the installation lights up, is not pre-programmed but has an interactive compound: just like a real flock of birds."
Also on display is the Dutch...