Building with Textiles, Woven Light

Imagine you could walk into a LED screen. Imagine light pixels expanding
and enclosing around you.
With Woven Light, a prototype for a new spatialised, interactive LED system, Danish architect Astrid Mody demonstrates how a media screen could inhabit a space and become a spatial structure in its own right.
The flexible plug and play systemconsists of only two components: LED nodes and varying lengths ofconnective silicone tubing. The technology, wireless control PCB (Philips Hue Compatible Light source) and the mobile app Philips Hue arecustomized, expanding technology in regard to the LEDs connected to the
PCB (4 LEDs instead of 3), the amount of LEDs controlled by the app (60 nodes
with 4 LEDs instead of 1 light) and its dual mode of control (user-driven and nature-driven). The result is a three-dimensional media screen, which you can enter to experience variations
in spatial transparency.
In this exhibition only a part of the site-specific installation,
developed in the context of Mody’s PhD research Textilisations of Light
(2011-2015), is presented and only parts of its interactive performance
are demonstrated.
Cooperation Philips Research (NL) & The Royal Danish Academy of Fine
Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Institute of
Technology