Swarm Studies

  • Tom Metcalfe
LEDs, polished brass rods, custom circuit boards, custom driver software and hard ware, behavioural algorithm, sound / motion sensors, computer & interface

3 cubes of 810 x 810 mm
Edition of 8 + 4 AP
Carpenters Workshop Gallery

rAndom’s ‘Swarm’ works translate patterns of collective behaviour found in nature into moving light.
The first exploration of this kind, ‘Swarm Light’ emulates the behaviour of a group of birds. The sound created by visitors’ presence stimulates the installation’s ‘collective consciousness’, causing the abundant individual lights to respond in swarm-like formations.
The viewer is invited into a responsive relationship with the work itself and its surrounding sphere; as the installation reacts to the sound of its onlookers and the illuminated swarm animates the space.
Swarm Studies by Tom Metcalfe
Swarm Studies by Tom Metcalfe
Swarm Studies by Tom Metcalfe
Swarm Studies by Tom Metcalfe
Swarm Studies by Tom Metcalfe
Swarm Studies by Tom Metcalfe
Swarm Studies by Tom Metcalfe
Tom Metcalfe
Designer