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janet echelman and google weave an interactive sculpture in the sky all photos by ema peter courtesy of studio echelman artists janet echelman and aaron koblin –creative director at google’s
creative lab — have collaborated to create ‘unnumbered sparks‘, a monumental interactive sculpture in the sky, billowing silently overhead visitors to downtown vancouver, canada. the
ethereal net spanning 745 feet between buildings shimmers with a vibrantly colored glow, punctuating the urban landscape as it floats above ground. dynamic digital characteristics embedded
within the aerial mesh define an engaging relationship with the viewer. visitors with smartphones and tablets are able to paint vivid beams of light across the sculpture at a massive scale:
small movements made on phones become nearly hundred foot long trails on its surface. ‘when you look at the sculpture, you’re looking at a web browser.’ the team explains ‘the lighting on
the sculpture is actually a single fullscreen google chrome window over 10 million pixels in size.’ choreographed by the public in real time through their mobile devices, the soaring form
becomes a crowd-controlled visual on a massive canvas. ‘unnumbered sparks’, which premiered at the TED conference’s 30th anniversary, can be seen in vancouver until march 22nd, before it
travels to other cities around the globe. the floating mesh is activated by viewers on their mobile devices below detail of the intricately woven fibers illuminated by night, the floating
form attaches to existing city structures [embedded content] the making of unnumbered sparks video courtesy of google by day, ‘unnumbered sparks’ silently billows overhead floating in the
sky above downtown vancouver, canada colorful netting punctuates the urban landscape details of the woven fibers 1/8 nina azzarello I designboom mar 20, 2014