Aesthetec at Toronto Nuit Blanche this Saturday!

In collaboration with Dashing Collective, we are very excited to be presenting as part of Toronto’s Nuit Blanche this year.

SMILE, short for Socially Motivated Immersive Light Environment, is an interactive light installation that will cover the ground of Toronto’s Fort York National Historic Site. Cubes of lights positioned in a hexagonal grid form the lightscape. Light patterns will change as the audience move small control nodes around the field, and evolve organically as they come together.

This project has been in the works at our studio for the past three months. We’ve created a set of customized electronics consist of individually controlled and wirelessly networked group of LEDs. Beyond just being able to receive command from a control computer, each LED node is part of a mesh network that can send and receive information to and from each other as well. Additionally, using radio frequency signal readings, we are also able to locate positions of the moving nodes in the field.

The picture above is from our first field test yesterday. At night, the park is surrounded by lights from the Toronto skyline, but still far enough so that the light cubes stand out beautifully. Please come and join us this Saturday, October 1, from sunset to sunrise.

Fort York Historic Site
100 Garrison Road, Toronto
http://g.co/maps/4ceek

More information:
http://dashing.tv/nuitblanche2011/
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/