Fabric I ch - Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine

Responsive Environment 2002
Fabric / ch: Christophe Guignard and Patrick Keller
Perpetual sunshine is an architectural, climatic and temporal installation made of heat and light. Thanks to a screen composed of several hundred infrared light bulbs, Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine retransmits non stop the journey and intensity of the sun on the 23rd parallel south, according to information transmitted live by weather centres all around the Tropic of Capricorn.

Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine thereby creates a displaced architectural space, in terms of both climate and time. This stimulated space confronts the visitor with an abstract form of day and endless summer. It represents the increasingly artificial nature of our environment and suggests a form of static mobility or displaced tropicality. Facing Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine, the visitor can experience an abstract journey through tropical sunshine without any apparent movement, across longitudes and time zones.

More info: http://www.fabric.ch/pts/pts_project_0.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• art
• responsive
• environment
• visual
• tactile
• aesthetic
• expereince
• affection
• technology