Open Air was an interactive artwork which allowed participants' voices to transform the sky over Philadelphia by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. It was commissioned by the Association for Public Art.
Participants could use a website to record a voice message and listen and rate other entries. The highest rated messages were played-back over the Benjamin Franklin Parkway using 24 powerful robotic searchlights that reacted, both in brightness and position, to your voice’s frequency and volume.
The project made massive light formations every night from September 20 to October 14 that were visible up to 10 miles away. These lights were automatically controlled by your voice. Over 63,000 people visited the website from over 92 different countries, leaving nearly 6000 messages in over 20 different languages. The website still allows you to listen to the thousand of messages recorded that were once used to make a brilliant light show to decorate the sky. This project is demonstrative of the beauty that modern technology can create on a large scale.
Source :http://www.openairphilly.net/
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