SWARM STUDY / XIII, 2018

LEDs, brass rods, richlite, custom circuit boards, custom driver software and hardware, behavioural algorithm, computer
290.6 x 218 x 218 cm

Inspired by the acrobatic efficiency of flocking birds, the individual light sources are each imbued with a collective behaviour. The swarm behaves autonomously; each light source acts according to its own set of criteria in relation to its neighbours. Random International’s ongoing Swarm Studies explore the intelligence in motion of self-organising systems through increasingly dematerialised, sensory environments. Evolving from this, the piece invites an experience of architecture as something animate and responsively integrated with surrounding natural phenomena and human activity.