Concordia Sculpture

Video for an interactive sculpture I made with Joe Wang and Katarina Veljovic titled Concordia. The process of our work can be viewed on our blog at http://www.concordia-sculpture.blogspot.com

Concordia is the physical manifestation of an idea, the creative process, the collaborative process, as well as a mirror for the viewer's self reflection of the piece itself.

Each tube represents the progression of an idea, and the infectious nature of that idea. At the same time however, there are other tubes intertwined together, thus making one tube only a single part of a collective whole. This is a reflection of collaborative efforts, and the experience of our group since we have become a group. Each of our ideas have affected the other, reinforcing some concepts, or spawning others in completely different tangents. The key is however, collaborative harmony. Just like it is represented in the intertwining of the tubes, one person is not any more important than the others, they all work in unity to contribute to a single goal.

The sculpture has three sides, of which all have their own sensor and assigned tube. As people approach a side, the sensor is set off and movement in the tube occurs. The movement in the tube acts as a self-aware mirror into the viewer's pensive thoughts. As they think about the piece and its meaning, the piece is actually physically showing the viewer's thought process back at them. As more people approach the sculpture, and other sides are set off, they become aware that their presence, and consequently their thoughts, are contributing to one single structure; they are inadvertently collaborating with each other.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Interactive sculpture
• tech art
• collaboration
• concordia