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Lights On! is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria. The facade installation contains 1,085 LED controllable windows. The windows' colors are changed in realtime with music that is broadcast on speakers surrounding the building. The goal is to create a lively play of light and sound celebrating the opening of the new museum, and highlighting the relationships between the architectural elements it contains.

The visual software was coded in openframeworks by Zachary Lieberman , Joel Gethin Lewis and Damian Stewart , with music by Daito Manabe, with support from Taeji Sawai and Kyoko Koyama. This project was developed during the course of three days of coding and experimentation. The performance is approximately 10 minutes long, and had been recorded to be replayed at future events.

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Lights on! Photo provided by Rubra / Ars Electronica

Multivision installed the LED system, which contains over 40,000 LEDs and covers 5,100 Square meters. Ars electronica futurelab was also deeply involved in building and testing the facade system. More information about the installation can be found here .

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Lights on! Photo provided by Rubra / Ars Electronica

Zachary Lieberman, Joel Gethin Lewis, Damian Frey and Daito Manabe are media artists and educators residing in New York, London, Wellington, and Tokyo (respectively). On our own, we make performances, installations, iphone applications, software toolkits that are aimed at making invisible things visible, and transforming the everyday. Lights on was our first collaboration.

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