those who come with the night

Using custom made circuits based on Arduino we create an intervention in the lighting systems of public spaces intending to alter the visitors' experiences of space and time, changing their apprehension of the surrounding environment and how they behave in this unusual and ever-changing situation. The idea revolves around creating an ambience of intermittent lights that turn on and off, resembling a cloud of fireflies advancing throughout the night, following a dynamic animation made according to characteristics of the location where the installation is set up: either being a street that has its lampposts turned on and off progressively or a park in which paths are drawn by the animated lights, visitors are induced to rethink the public space and their relationships with it based on a unstable variation of areas of darkness and light. The circuits can be attached directly to lampposts in order to control the flow of electricity or, in some cases, use a complementary system of lasers to control photoelectric relays already attached to the lampposts; equipped with a custom build radio frequency system, each module communicates with the other in the system, providing the ability to control the light system either as a whole or dealing with individual nodes; this way the system can be synchronised in order to produce environmental animations of light.

Demonstration of the circuits working

description

This session is being translated to English, it will be available soon. You can check the Portuguese version here.



Documentation of the installation while working @ Noite Branca, 2012

technical

This session is being translated to English, it will be available soon. You can check the Portuguese version here.



Prototyping of receiver circuits: Protuino and relay actuation



Receiver circuits: assembly



team

Project
Cinthia Marcelle [CV]
Pedro Veneroso [CV]

Production assistants
Letícia Weiduschadt
Luna Gomides
Lygia Santos

Editing interface and circuit programming
Thiago Hersan

Electric and electronic consultant
Pedro Cimini

Assembly of circuits
João Paulo Cardoso
Pedro Cimini
Rafael Pimenta
Sara Lana
Thiago Campolina
Victor Hugo Carvalho

Support
Noite Branca MG
Marginalia+lab

Thanks to
Roberto [Eletrônica Guarani]



contact

pfveneroso@gmail.com