Electroland

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Web Name: Electroland

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M-TECH PROPOSAL 2019

Proposal fro M-Tech, Utah.

MOSAIC

MOSAIC is a 240’ long luminous LED artwork located in the concourse of the T4 Terminal at the Hollywood / Fort Lauderdale International Airport (FLL). It is an artistic interpretation of a linear clock that follows a visual logic interpreting the color spectrum as a one-hour time cycle. The patchwork of colors slowly morph over each hour cycle in tune with the associated “time-color” dominant at each moment. The colors appear mostly static, with a minor visual event occurring each minute, a more substantial event every ten minutes, and a major event marking the hour. The artwork is simultaneously visible to two audiences: travelers in the concourse below see it as a large display, while travelers in the arrivals corridor above walk alongside it and through an immersive corridor of colored light.

Completion: June 2020.

Mosaic Process Photos

The design of Mosaic and its final installation took place over ten years. It was a major logistical challenge to balance and manage a huge order of LED lights from China; CNC cut and ship eighty sheets of Alpolic fr material; onsite badging and access problems in a Customs and Border Patrol controlled Sterile Corridor; a glass installation in a 240’ long space that did not have consistent dimensions nor construction. Later on, Electroland programmed and addressed the LED lights. We find that the more we are involved in the process the better the quality and the value of what we deliver. Sometimes we even have fun doing it…

DiscBox

DiscBox is proposed as a colorful landmark entrance folly for a new Denver-area development. We can’t decide between blue or purple discs, so we rendered both versions to consider. 2019.

Crystal Jelly Proposal

Crystal Jelly is an artistic collaboration proposed for the Bright Brussels 2019 Festival of Light.

Vermont

Electroland designed an exciting facade artwork for a new Los Angeles County Vermont location building. We proposed a very graphic and colorful design that illuminates beautifully at night. The final design approved by the jury suggests a combination of 2D and 3D elements. Unfortunately, later events beyond the control of the artist and the jury prevented the realization of the work.

4016 Tivoli

The new Venice home of architect and Electroland Principal Cameron McNall is an extraordinary light-filled design experience wrapped in an innovative 3,000. sq.ft. facade of decorative computer-cut metallic flowers.

The 110-foot facade surrounds two sides of the building to create privacy, frame views, and generate provocative light effects. Each tall-ceilinged room displays a unique quality of light, shape, and distinct personality. The impressive architecture, high-quality construction and attention to fine detail are exceptional. This boutique house is built to City of Los Angeles "Green Building" standards. The architect has carefully curated and/or designed all furniture, artwork and objects to create a complete work of art.

Architect's statement: "I designed 4016 Tivoli for my family as a total design living experience that represents my relationship to art, architecture and design. Although I was just a child when I lived in California in the sixties, I was very influenced by the energy and graphics of that period, everything from Warhol to the Mexico '68 Olympics to Fillmore West concert flyers. I spent my teenage years in Europe, during which time I gained a deeper understanding of and respect for architecture, and became enamored with the discipline of German/Swiss design and the humor of Italian design. Most particularly, I adopted the Italian philosophy of design “dal cucchiaio alla città” (from the spoon to the city), where the architect applies a unified design philosophy and creativity to everything from small objects to environments. The result is "total design"- you see it, live it and feel it. When people walk by the house or visit inside, I am pleased that it elicits a smile and a contagious happiness. Now you know my secrets."

See more at www.4016tivoli.com.

IKEA HACKS

IKEA HACKS is the name I made up for the TOTAL DESIGN aesthetic at 4016 Tivoli encompassing furniture, objects and artwork. I call it IKEA HACKS because I combined, hacked up and repurposed many inexpensive items from a broad range of retailers who offer items that carry a pop aesthetic. A custom table is made up from four IKEA tables, and the leftover parts are assembled to make an artwork. LACK tables are combined to make a sculptural bed, artwork and seating. Bins and containers are made into vertical sculpture. Ivy is wrapped into a Bertoia chair to make a birds-nest seat. Many IKEA items are made into assemblage wall art. Other custom lighting and objects carry the same aesthetic.

See more at www.4016tivoli.com.

Toroidal

San Francisco, California

Toroidal is a unique sculpture proposed for a new building alongside a public way in San Francisco. It circles the building column twice, passing through the glass facade, occupying both interior and exterior. Proposed 2016.

Prism

Prism is proposed as an environmental sculpture for the California Market Center lobby in Los Angeles. Suspended dichroic panels visually interact with each other and bathe the floor and walls with dichroic light patterns. The proposed new logo and brand for the building is meant to emulate the design of the sculpture. 2013.

Giro

Memphis, Tennessee

Giro is a 100 foot tower located on the Plough Boulevard approach to the Memphis International Airport. It features alternating bands of red and white fins. When cars pass, the bands of color appear to move like a set of gears while continually changing color. Completion is pending fundraising.

Aurora

El Segundo, California

Electroland designed and constructed the new interactive lobby experience of the DirecTV headquarters. 47,000 LED RGB light nodes are diffused by 600 curved plastic panels. This interactive light and sound project was realized with extensive use of parametric modeling computer modeling and CNC fabrication. Unique software was created to map video files into 3-D space. 2013.

The Fabrication and Installation of Aurora

Schedule and budget required Electroland to take a radically innovative approach to the design, fabrication and installation of Aurora. A parametric workflow allowed the designers to take complete control of the design, fabrication and installation process, and seamlessly exchange information with structural engineers Buro Happold. The expensive and time-consuming process of sub-contractor consultations and bidding was eliminated. The project was designed as a kit of parts, with several thousand items milled and or laser cut from a multitude of materials, including steel, aluminum and polycarbonate.

More Process Photos of Aurora

The actual installed work never varied more than an astoundingly precise 3 millimeters from the digital model. This accuracy allowed for an amazingly fast lego-like assembly installation process where very little onsite measuring, drilling or cutting was required. A large number of relatively unskilled and affordable workers were unleashed to accelerate the installation process. This degree of factory pre-fabrication is unprecedented for such a large and complex installation, propelling the Maker paradigm into large construction technologies

MetalMatisse

Norfolk, Virginia

Metalmatisse is an interactive, vertical, exuberant, all stainless-steel, light and sound sculpture. It brings life to the park, both by its own light and sound actions, as well as by the visitor activity it generates. Visitors activate lights and sounds in 14 locations by standing in view of an aimed sensor in each flower. 2013.

SALE

Jacksonville, Florida

Electroland Principal Cameron McNall created a pseudo marketing campaign that explores how text and images are used to create the different “voices” of outdoor advertising using LED digital signs. Thirty-one unique images were displayed across twenty-six digital signs, one image for each day of March 2013. This project is part of the Highway Gallery initiative of the Florida Mining Gallery and Clear Channel communications. 2013.

Relax

Denver International Airport, Colorado

Relax is a light-based environmental light and graphics installation that transforms the “A” gates terminal with light and color. Six continuous walls of LED backlit graphics display images that mimic the different “voices” of airport experience, including wayfinding, advertising, security messages. 2013.

Aether

New York, New York

Two 3 x 4 meter luminous panels of this LED interactive light installation face each other in the lobby entrance of the New Gotham Apartments, located on 43rd Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. The motion of humans is tracked by cameras and is represented on the panels as soft white clouds that nudge and stir the colored forms. The intense LED ambient light fills the lobby with an aether of colored light. 2012.

Skate 1.0

Los Angeles, California

SKATE 1.0 is an abstract virtual skate park manifested through an immersive light and sound installation. 60 four-foot T5HO fluorescent lights and multi-channel sound system blast 300,000 lumens of pure white light attitude. It was installed at the Los Angeles Architecture and Design Museum for three months. 2011.

College Faces

New Haven, Connecticut

The faces of 350 students, teachers and administrators at Gateway Community College appear every 30 seconds as a slow-motion video sequence on a large 11 x 11 meter low-resolution LED video screen, viewable both inside the lobby and to the street. Individual faces are accessed and are controlled via a smartphone or website. This project challenges notions of the public and private presentation of images, while demonstrating that Gateway Community College is an important and forward-looking educational institution. 2013.

Flightpath

Edmonton International Airport, Canada

Flightpath is a 160 meter sound and light installation. Arriving visitors are tracked and rewarded with vibrant light patterns of red LED light. 2012.

Chrono

Electroland proposed several design iterations for massive clock-face for the Southstar Lofts development in Philadelphia. The developer was concerned about the tenants objecting to the clock hands passing by their windows occasionally, while we thought that aspect was brilliant. 2012.

Google Android Touchwall

Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, Spain

The Google Touchwall was conceived by Electroland as a touch and feel installation to artistically present the current and future elements of Google Android interaction design, presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. 36 tiles present a wide variety of tactile experiences that include textures; heat and cold; moisture; vibration; sound; light; peep shows; blowing air; door chimes; pulsing fur; scents; and interactive displays that abstractly display basic Android UI. 2012.

The Fabrication and Installation of the Google Android Touchwall

Electroland was commissioned to design an installation representing the Google Android division for the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, with the caveat that we only had 12 weeks until the event. Electroland Partners Damon Seeley and Cameron McNall proposed an artistic installation that encompassed all aspects of Touch, including interactive screens, a range of textures, temperatures, motion, sound and light. In one week we put together some "look and feel" prototypes for review at Google, got the final go-ahead, and then our lives were consumed night and day by working with a quickly assembled team of fabricators, coders and craftspersons. We made our drop-dead ship deadline, and then flew to Barcelona for several more days of caffeine-fueled frenzy. It was an awesome undertaking, exhilarating and exhausting. The final product turned out great and was the talk of the MWC. Google Android visitors included Christian Robertson, inventor of the ubiquitous Android Roboto font; Matias Duarte, head of Android Design; and Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google.

Metallotus

Los Angeles, California

A large floating stainless steel Lotus flower light sculpture provides shade and a visual focus in the courtyard. At night the 8-meter wide sculpture changes in color and intensity as people walk below. 2010.

Lightspan

Memphis, Tennessee

Lightspan is the first interactive light installation in the public art collection of Memphis, Tennessee. LED lights dynamically change color to register people's actions on a 60-meter pedestrian bridge. Person tracking is accomplished with 27 sensors placed at three-meter intervals. 2010.

Connection

Indianapolis International Airport, Indiana

The ceiling of the pedestrian bridge of this interactive light installation is covered with a field of interactive illuminated LED light dots that display colors and exhibit a range of intelligent and playful behaviors, accompanied by sounds. The LED light dots persistently track and follow visitors the length of the bridge. Lines of light dots visually connect two passengers approaching each other over the entire 43 meters. 2008.

Enteractive

Los Angeles, California

A large interactive carpet of LED lights detects visitors and displays interactive light patterns in response. LED lights on the building face simultaneously display to the surrounding city the same light patterns that are on the interactive carpet. Environmental intelligence and surveillance of human activity are combined with a video-game sensibility. 2006.

Target Interactive Breezeway

Rockefeller Center, New York, NY

Electroland designed a unique branded interactive light and sound installation for Target, located on the top-floor observation decks of Rockefeller Center. Visitors entering the space are sensed and tracked persistently by four 3-D stereo-vision cameras. Individualized light patterns and sounds follow each visitor around the space. 2006.

Author Wall

Guadalajara, Mexico

An interactive touchscreen located in the American section of the Guadalajara International Book
Fair allows visitors to manipulate a floating cloud of 200 author names, with imagery from the touchscreen simultaneously projected onto the nearby 30-meter wall. Information is touched, zoomed and panned to navigate a large amount of data. Partners in this effort included John Friedman Alice Kimm Architects, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts. The project was produced by Electroland in collaboration with designer Andy Goldman. 2009.

Pulse

Los Angeles, California

A 40-meter LED light instalation on the facade of the Los Angeles Fashion Center pulses with blue LED light patterns that are activated by passing cars. 2009.

Realtime

In the film “Realtime” a woman explores the Los Angeles landscape while seeking the Hollywood sign, and on her journey she just happens to pass through a few Electroland projects. Director: Cameron Mcnall. Producer: Damon Seeley. Actress: Jill Evyn. Director of Photography: Philip Holahan. 2009.

Sprung

Los Angeles, California

The outdoor lobby of the Los Angeles Fashion Mart is filled with 22 brightly colored interactive flowers that hang as one large upside-down bouquet in a light and sound installation. Flowers respond individually to people and collectively in a riot of sound and colored light. 2008.

Drive By

North Hollywood, California

A 73-meter LED interactive light installation tracks passing cars and alternates between two modes: alphanumeric letters that read out famous lines from Hollywood films, and abstract letterforms that follow cars as they pass by, displaying bright red "collisions" as the cars pass each other. 2007.

Lumen

New York, New York

Lumen is a site-specific light and sound installation that lines the stairwell of the 2006 National Design Museum Design Triennial of the Smithsonian / Cooper Hewitt Museum . Technology partners include TYZX Inc., who provided the 3D vision system for tracking pedestrians; Sylvania, who provided technical assistance and 75 T5 bulbs with Quicktronic dimming ballasts; and Lightolier, who provided the fluorescent T-5 fixtures. December 2006- July 2007.

Calgary Tram Stops

Calgary, Canada

Eleven colored glass interactive light sculptures mark each of the main tram stops along the 7th Avenue transit corridor in Calgary, Canada. Each sculpture displays unique interactive patterns when people approach them. When viewed as a group they lend a cohesive identity to the transit corridor. Proposal only, 2007.

Houston Mirrorball

Houston, Texas

A giant mirror ball creates immersive patterns of light from sunlight during the day and reflects projected artificial light patterns at night. This spectacle object marks an important public gathering location of ephemeral city events, concerts, and sports celebrations. Proposed only, 2008.

Mira 2008 Exhibit

Xiamen, China

Continuous projections of sealife surround the walls in the immersive video and sound installation.

Episodes include swarming green fish, an enormous red fish, eruptions of bubbles and tsunami storms. This pop-up installation was designed and fabricated in California, and re-erected in China in three days. 2008.

Mira 2007 Exhibit

Xiamen, China

A curved metal-frame and translucent fabric exhibit space houses a large 2m by 4m interactive table. Colorful fish and other swirling, abstract sea creatures exhibit "artificial life" behaviors. Participants touch the creatures to reveal images and movies. 2007.

City National Towers

Los Angeles, California

During the day the Interactive Ring sits in the plaza between the twin towers; at night it rises slowly to 150 meters above the plaza. The ring changes color and intensity in response to activity along a circular paving in the plaza below. Proposal only, 2006.

Urban Nomad

Los Angeles, California

The Urban Nomad inflatable shelter is conceived as a social provocation to provoke a dialog about the invisibility and marginalization of the homeless. Current design culture aesthetics contribute to the rebranding of the homeless to confound expectations regarding the ability of the homeless to appreciate and to be served by consumer design values. 2004.

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R-G-B

Los Angeles, California

Colored lights fill 81 windows extending over 180 meters at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), controlled by the touchpad of a mobile phone. Anyone can call in to control the lights, from any location. 2001.

Hollywood Shadow Project

Hollywood, California

Large-scale sculptures of iconic movie scenes are strategically situated to cast shadows onto the walls of nearby buildings, all of which house movie-making activities, resulting in shadows returning to the site of their production. The movie scenes include The Wild Bunch, Warlock, North By Northwest, The Magnificent 7, One Million Years B.C., Easy Rider, and "The End" credit for Casablanca, which is still viewable at the corner of Wilcox and Santa Monica Boulevards. 2001.