It was a beautiful autumn evening made more beguiling by Light Drift.
Light Drift is a temporary interactive installation along the Schuylkill River that draws viewers into a playful engagement with the artwork, the river's edge and each other. The orb-shaped lighting elements - arrayed along the waterfront on land and in the water - respond to visitors and communicate with each other using sensors that detect your presence and relay radio signals to corresponding orbs in the water. As viewers engage and occupy the orbs, they transform the lighting behavior and color as the grid of lights in the water becomes an index of the activities on land.
This unique art experience is open to the public for three days only as part of DesignPhiladelphia. And today (and tonight) is your last chance to experience it.
Light Drift is a project of J. Meejin Yoon of MY Studio, an interdisciplinary art and architecture studio located in Boston, Massachusetts. Yoon is an installation artist, designer, architect and Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at MIT. Other projects by Meejin Yoon include White Noise Light, commissioned for the Athens 2004 Olympics, and Low Rez Hi Fi, a permanent interactive installation in Washington, DC. Yoon has received numerous awards including the Rome Prize, the RISD Athena Award and the United States Artist Award.
Presented by the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program in partnership with Fairmount Park, Schuylkill River Development Corporation and Philadelphia Water Department. Sponsored by the Take Me to the River grant program, administered by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission with funding from the William Penn Foundation. Additional funding provided by the Massachussetts Institute of Technology.
We urge you not to miss Light Drift. Hurry on over!
Photo and information provided by the Schuylkill River Development Corporation.
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