Pulsing Airbag Installation Is Simple But Irresistible .
The current "Voice Array," by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, is a companion piece to his "Pulse" installation at the Hirshhorn, and is on display until Jan . 31
Pulsing LED installations, streaming with texts by the poet Anna Swir about her experiences as a resistance fighter in the 1939 Siege of Warsaw, cast a lurid purplish-blue glow on the paintings, lit just so they're legible.
Those who lingered were drawn to the video installation's lush images and pulsing soundscape, although many glanced away periodically at their phones, texting and e-mailing and posting photos, as though they hadn't quite got the message.
Their installations incorporate the refuse of digital culture, both hardware and software, into bright and pulsing environments.
The gong-winning installation, Experiment, is a menacing Garden of Eden whose monster flora run the colour spectrum from vein blue to liver brown, pulsing orange and the softest membrane pink.
The currently untitled project will have the artist embed Hong Kong's iconic, 490-meter-high International Commerce Center on the Kowloon Harbor with a light installation that will pulse and blink in a synchronized frequency.
Despite its innovative materials and technical look, there doesn't seem to be much zip to "Pulse 48," a light and sound installation by Bill Jones and Ben Neill.
By tweaking, bending, and wiggling tubes controlled by an infrared laser sensor and X-Agora's Scanner CV, visitors can induce the installation's illuminated tubes to pulse with light and sound.
Often shot from a great distance, the images in the video installation pulse and shimmer with heat distortions, the surreality heightened by Frank Kruse's sound design.
