An integral part of the A-Glow-Glow Macro Interactive Media Arts Exhibition, which took place at the peripheral area of the Hong Kong Museum of Art from 11-20 April 2008, Lo's 'Phaeodaria' comprised around 80 pieces of Lighthouse's new creative video solution, LEDscape Bar, arranged to form an 8m diameter geodesic dome.
Inspired by Ernst Haeckel's illustrations of marine life forms, the project utilised wireless mobile telecommunications technologies to change the colours of the Lighthouse LEDscape Bar - thereby illustrating in lit form the wireless information culture that Lo feels is highly representative of contemporary Hong Kong life.
To achieve this, he recorded the signals outside a large department store at Causeway Bay in Hong Kong which he then decoded to form a playback signal for controlling the LEDscape Bar.
"LED is a revolutionary technology," says Teddy Lo. "It's very environmentally friendly and has a huge impact on the world. The new LEDscape bars provide me with the scale and mechanical flexibility that I was looking for."
(Jim Evans)
