Send a tweet to @leoartwall from your Twitter account with a combination of colors, a city and state for US locations, or a city name alone for international cities. Dynamic Performance of Nature will reflect your color stream or conditions in that part of the world.
The young architect-artists who created this piece wanted a digital picture of the natural world — this playful interpretation is the result.
Brian Brush and Yong Ju Lee inject static materials with live information to create a rippled picture of the world. Environmental sensors capture data from sources throughout the planet, the city, and this building, and feed that data to solar-powered LEDs embedded in this sine curve made of recycled plastic. As the sensors register changes in humidity, wind, seismicity, pollution, solar radiation, and other factors, the LEDs reflect these fluctuations with a flash or wave that represents a shift from moments before.
The color spectrum reflects temperatures and the speed of color flow across the piece shows actual wind speed. When an earthquake registers with the USGS, a distorted world map on the wall shows the earthquake's location — the brighter the color and more frequent the lights flash, the stronger the quake.
Dynamic Performance of Nature and its creators are getting national attention for this innovative design:
This piece was funded by the generous taxpayers of Salt Lake City.
