Standing On The Shoulders of Giants

Last month I was helping Jacob Sikker Remin with his first solo exhibition.

First thing was to program light tubes animation. Jacob constructed a cube out of them I asked I we can program them so they light moves like in a snake game. Hmm. Sure After 2 hours I had a prototype in Processing.

Then we ported it to Arduino so he can install stand alone version at the exhibition. The results were amazing. I wish I was there..

Next I was given a piece of text by Jacob that he wrote after being inspired by Enzio Manzini lecture on future of design. My task was to automate process of filing screen with a sentence and make an animation out of this sequences. Here is the result mixed with music, drawings and animation contributed by Jacob’s friends and his wife:

That later was remixed by Rosa Menkman into this:

You can find more photos in Jacob’s flickr set :
standing on the shoulders of giants – exhibit pics.