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Take a Virtual WalkThrough the Luminous GardenAs ExperiencedAt Electric Sky June 2016
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
An art and tech weekend “campathon” -- an artists’ retreat and hackathon
A mix of artists, technologists, and makers In the woods, on the river, collaboratingLearn more at
http://ElectricSkyArtCamp.com
About Electric Sky
This year we organized our creative efforts around a group installation called “The Luminous Garden”
Our basic design framework was to provide an overarching experience “taking a walk in an otherworldy garden arboretum”
We then recruited others to take on elements of the installation while also participating in the larger collaboration
About the Luminous Garden
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Event production and creative lead: Shelly Farnham
Design framework, infrastructure, and lighting: The art group Recreational Light and Magic (A Totally Legit LLC), including Jeff Larson, Shelly Farnham, Greg Larson, April Denton
Kitchen and group meal: Bevin Keely and Andy Tomacelli
Opening night bar and snacks: Indira Schlag Workshops: David Hull, Carey Christie, Jeremy
Kayes Interpretive Signs and Narrative: Jeremy
Kayes and Mary Hodder Photography: Leo Spizziri, Jole Sack Luminous Garden participants!
Special ThanksMade possible through the support of:
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
For those who could not attend Electric Sky in 2016, we created this “Virtual Walk” based on all the photos we took.
…..enjoy!
The Luminous GardenTake a walk through an otherworldly garden biosphere with luminous flora and fauna.
Imagine you have landed as tourists on an alien world, in an immersive extraterrestrial landscape.
As the sun sets on an interstellar, magically luminous garden, you will experience nature reconceived – with unpredictable flora, fauna, and architectural oddities that confound your earth-bound notions of nature.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Along your walk, the path is lit with colors.
Photo by Shelly Farnham
Illuminated interpretive signs are placed to tell you about what you are seeing.
Let’s get started!Photo by Jole Sack
The PortalJeff Larson, Shelly Farnham, and their Recreational Light and Magic crew
The entry gate to the Luminous Garden. This trans- dimensional gateway will accelerate your molecules to seven times the speed of light. If you are holding a beverage, maintain a firm grasp.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About the Portal
Jeff Larson, Shelly Farnham, and their art group Recreational Light and Magic (a Totally Legit LLC) constructed the garden entry gate — the Portal — with responsive lighting that fluctuated to indicate the entry and exit of participants, and the number of people who are inside the garden. The goal was to help create the experience of walking into an otherworldly, immersive environment.
Materials include wood, fabric, projector, and controllable RGB lights.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Smooth Jazz Fountain
Jennifer Welge and Jencat
Plantlife of the Slatook Nebula is designed to pollinate through music. The relaxing sounds of water and Smooth Jazz encourage hominidsto dance from blossom to blossom. Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Jole Sack
More About the Smooth Jazz FountainMaterials include a trombone, a fountain, lighting, and smooth jazz.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
AquaFleurChristopher Overstreet Abbey EnsonKolibri Enson-Overstreet Kevin NortnessChristina Jones
These aquatic flowers interact with hominid children on hot days of the firy planet Cinderchar IV. Pressing the mushroom caps will expel jets of water, but only the most clever know which bloom will squirt!
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About AquaFleurMaterials include fabric, rope light, water.
Photo by Jole Sack
You see on your walk, the trees themselves are works of art.
Photo by Jole Sack
Lit orbs along the path guide the way through the trees towards the riverPhoto by Jole Sack
Sensor Mote SwarmShelly Farnham & Greg Larson
A swarm of geometric,alien critters (“motes”) respond in lighting and sound to your presence. See if you can’t teach them to dance.
Photo by Shely Farnham
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Shelly Farnham
More About the Sensor Mote SwarmThe swarm included eight units, or “motes”, that communicated color state information to each other through wireless radio transceivers. Materials include vinyl, vellum, microcontrollers, radio transceivers, and neopixel RGB controllable lights.
Photo by Jole Sack
PolypAndy Tomacelli and Luke Swart
The sentient, gelatinous flora of planet Nort definitelydoes not speak, but in the unlikely event that it does, don’t believe anything it tells you. It’s ill adviced to argue with it, as it is known to place ideas in your head.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About the PolypMaterials include thermal plastic and found objects.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Pixel River RocksBen Flaster
Alien seeds landed in the river 10,000 years ago, where they slowly grew into glowing rocks calibrated by the river flow, signaling to other seeds still in space.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About Pixel River RocksRiver rocks as LEDS provide a visual plot of the intensity of the river. A motor attached to a fan powered by the river generates a voltage that causes the LED to illuminate depending on speed of the current.Materials include LEDs made from scratch, resin, fans.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Now the path turns, taking you away from the river and back up into the trees.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Lighter than AirBriar Bates
This plant uses rings of lights to lure hominids to relax in it’s comforting chair-like shape so it can resequence their DNA for pollination of it’s species.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Shelly Farnham
More About Lighter than AirMaterials include acrylic plastic and LEDs.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Kids are Such PestsCarey Christie, Wilder Christie, Jeff Larson, and Workshop Pests
Don’t bug me!!! They appeared to be just kids in costume but actually they morphed into insects and bugs floating around in and out of the flora. Kids who can never return to their human state.
Photo by Jole Sack
See video at: https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AGPhFpuWAKGrfN0&id=C3A564E995D34886%21374&cid=C3A564E995D34886
More About the “Kids are Such Pests”
While the grown ups were building an art garden, through a workshop the kids created a bunch of garden pests through simple technologies and costumes. They then “infected” the garden, and wrapped up their projects by creating movies.
Photo by Jole Sack
Bamboo Lanterns Lea Willingham
Come inside this traditional Japanese bamboo festival of lanterns – where the forest spirits glow, turning into fairies casting spells on the insects in the forest.
Photo by Jole Sack
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Jole SackPhoto by Leo Spizzirri
More About Bamboo LanternsMaterials include bamboo and LEDs.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Now the path takes you back up hill into the kitchen. You stop for a drink “the Astral Confection” before continuing your garden walk.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Sunflower of SymmetryBryan Ressler
The seeds of the sunflower listen quietly and respond with light patterns. The patterns are used to manipulate mammilian minds.
Photo by Jole Sack
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About the Sunflower of SymmetryThe middle area is comprised of a circular disc of surface-mounted LEDs behind a diffuser, surrounded by handmade LDPE flower petals. A hidden computer projects symmetric animations on the sunflower that respond to the proximity presence of the viewer.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Popup ArcadeSeth Vincent, Luke Swart, and Christina Montilla
Technology and nature merged on the planet Yaphtorglam. These organic arcade machines connect young hominids to the pollination process. Luminous auditory moments breathe through the lush, mysterious arboretum.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About the Popup ArcadeThis project explores the incongruity of familiar technologies in new environments. People “play” the game by looking at the screen, which causes the tree to grow.Materials include Google notebooks, bamboo and LEDs.
Photo by Jole Sack
Anemone TentacleDavid Hull
A creature at the edge of the sea, anchored in tidal pools and under docks. More plant than animal, it recoils and changes color at your curious and invasive touch. It may nibble your finger, or inject you with nanobots of tetrodotoxin. Considered mostly safe.
Photo by Jole Sack
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About Anemone TentacleThis interactive kinetic sculpture emulates the arms of sea Anemone, with large tentacles that react to the proximity of a viewer by curling and changing color. Materials include thin flexible steel armatures, a translucent “skin” material, motors, LED lights, and electronic sensors.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Awesome BlossomBetsy Morris
These cave dwelling flowers are found on all the planetsin the Neethroo system. Found on the walls of caves and dark moons, the lights of these luminous flowers are known to hypnotically compel mammals to yodel.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Jole Sack
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About the Awesome BlossomMaterials include fabric, LEDS.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
ThunderheadNicole KistlerJosh Lind
“They watched in silence, and with them all the thousands in the streets and the towers of Diaspar, until the last cloud slowly faded from sight, sucked dry by the hot, parched air of the unending deserts.”
~ Arthur C. Clarke, Against the Fall of Night
Photo by Jole Sack
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More About ThunderheadAn artificial cloud made with a thunder and lightning-like episodes created within the cloud. Materials include recycled plastic, LED lights, speakers.
InteractiveBeanstalkJoel Walters
The drum-like seed pods ofthis beanstalk are presented to invite humanoids to nurture the beanstalk with percussion. Drum on the pods to make the beanstalk grow.
Photo by Jole Sack
More About the Interactive BeanstalkThe beanstalk grew as people banged on the drum. Materials include parachute fabric, EL wire, yoga balls, motor, and.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Wind TunnelJole Sack
A section of a arboreal feed tube from the vine hives of planet Wobnok. Objects can hover in the kinetic transport zone. Mostly safe.
Photo by Jole Sack
Photo by Jole Sack
More About the Wind TunnelCreated to illustrate properties of various objects in the wind. People could insert whatever object they chose. Materials included wood, acrylic tube, fan.
Photo by Jole Sack
The path takes a final turn through the field, passing by some of the biggest projects in the garden.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Solar SunflowerBee Wilkerson & Ron Ellington
This very dangerous specimen is the master sunflower controlling all the other sunflowers. The solar petals follow the sun, but can be distracted by delicious small humans. Observe from a distance.
Photo by Shell Farnham
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Shelly Farnham
More About the Solar SunflowerA 500 Watt solar generator in the form of a flower with actuated petals follows the sun. Power generated during the day lights the flower at night. Materials include acrylic, arduinos, actuators, servos, RGB controllable lights.
Photo by Shelly Farnnham
Square of AirOxogenus Mop
Air transforms into carbon dioxide with each breath you take, but also this square of carbon dioxide transforms into air by each tree in the forest.
Photo by Shelly Farnham
More About the Square of AirDesigned to convey that an art piece is as much in the concept as in the material. Materials include air.
Photo by Shelly Farnham
ChameliobusShelly Farnham & Greg Larson
This alien creature forms a symbiotic relationship with humanoid travelers. Sinceit is hunted by predators eager to devour the delicious passengers, it resonates with the environments it traverses, altering its skin to blend in with its environment.
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
More AboutChameliobusPainting based in images taken in the area. Materials include house paint, bus.
You are HereSarah Fansler Lavin
A celestial coordinate system using laser light levels. The lasers are placed on the xand y axis creating a grouping of stars or constellations mimicking the night sky. One can see the planets and the milky way. The constellations will serve as a map for the “tourists just landing in the extraterrestrial world”.
Photo by Shelly Farnham
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Photo by Shelly Farnham
More About You are HereThe grouping of lasers and stars mimic constellations in the night sky. Materials include Black and Decker laser light levels, LED lights, plywood sign.
Photo by Shelly Farnham
Now you have reached the end of your walk in the Luminous Garden! Thanks for joining us.Continue to see more photos from Electric Sky 2016.
Photo by Shelly Farnham
SCENES FROM
ELECTRIC SKY 2016
THE ENVIRONMENT
FieldPhoto by Shelly Farnham
River Photo by Shelly Farnham
ForestPhoto by Shelly Farnham
RainPhoto by Shelly Farnham
SunPhoto by Leo Spzzirri
THE CREATIVITY LAB
Meeting Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Coordinating Photo by Shelly Farnham
Making Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Making Photo by Shelly Farnham
Making a Mess Photo by Shelly Farnham
Projects in Progress Photo by Shelly Farnham
More Making
Photo by Shelly FarnhamPhoto by Shelly Farnham
ElectronicsPhoto by Shelly Farnham
Random Projects Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Random Projects Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Projecting All Night Photo by Leo Spizzirri
WORKSHOPS
Wearable Arduinos
Photo by Shelly Farnham
2D Cutters
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Kids are Such Pests
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Kids are Such Pests
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Kids are Such Pests
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Cartooning
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Cartooning
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
CNC RouterPhoto by Shelly Farnham
CNC Router
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
CNC Router Photo by Shelly Farnham
BUILDING COMMUNITY
Introductions andCoordinating Meeting
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Group Activities
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Group Meal
Photo by Joel Walters
Group Meal
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Opening Night Party
Photo by Shelly Farnham
Collaboration
Photo by Leo SpizzirriPhoto by Leo Spizzirri
Collaboration
Photo by Leo Spizzirri
PROJECT SETUP
Solar Sunflower Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Polyp Photo by Leo SpizzirriPhoto by Leo Spizzirri
Lighter than Air Photo by Leo Spizzirri
The Portal Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Thunderhead Photo by Leo Spizzirri
AquaFleurPhoto by Leo Spizzirri
Portal Sensor Mote
SwarmPhoto by Leo SpizzirriPhoto by Leo Spizzirri
The Portal Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Solar Sunflower Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Solar Sunflower Photo by Leo Spizzirri
Popup Arcade Lighter than AirPhoto by Leo SpizzirriPhoto by Shelly Farnham
Not much time for relaxing! Photo by Leo Spizzirri