FLASHLIGHTPENDULUM
2019 - Installation
8 x Flashlights, 1 x Speaker, Motor, Arduino, Relays

The Future of Light Art @ Center for International Light Art 2019


Flashlightpendulum is part 2 of a series of installations, which researches electronic flashes as an artistic medium. Multiple refurbished modified electronic flashes from disposable cameras form a dodecahedron hanging and swinging from the ceiling creating an ever changing sound light sculpture.
The installation stimulates the viewers visual senses in a radical way, resulting in a physical overwhelming experience as well as creating a captivating shadow light spectacle. A byproduct of popping and loading the flashes, are the zapping, cracking and high pitched noises coming from charging the capacitors. I harness that sound, changing the status from being a byproduct to being a main component, equal to the visual. The sounds are picked up by an electromagnetic pickup, amplified and played back into the space.
The dodecahedron pendulum body consists of 8 flashes and an inductive coil, an amp and a broadband speaker. I use the movement of pendulum and the pendulum body (flashlightsphere) to create an audio visual composition.


EXHIBITION

THE FUTURE OF LIGHT ART
08 June to 31 August 2019
Centre for International Light Art

---