Installation art is becoming more the rage nowadays, with artists testing boundaries to create visionary works which continue to excite and explore all our senses. Much of this type of artistic genre is site-specific three dimensional configurations specifically created to alter the normal observation of a particular space.
In general, most installation work is confined to interior spaces, and can be either temporary or permanent. Much of installation works have been seen displayed in museums, galleries and even at public domains.
One such installation work, consisting of the new media of sound and lights, akin to an immersive virtual reality of sorts is the Disturb Me Bed, displayed primarily at the White Hotel in Brussels, and hopefully, will catch on fast other establishments, masterminded by the ever-versatile The Popcorn Makers, who said that this installation was not permanent and rendered with motion detection.
“Disturb Me” is an innovative interactive installation targeted to explore the relationship between people and their surroundings. The White Hotel in Brussels receives their guests and enthralls them into partaking in interactive light shows, as opposed to the more traditional ‘do not disturb’ signs at each door. The main purpose of this installation is to construct audible mutual associations and much elapsed contact which we have with the environment.
The room immediately becomes vibrantly animated soon as participants’ steps into the room. As the projection relies heavily on sound emissions, these anticipated shapes are exposed only upon contact with surfaces of the space. When this happens, the room is transformed into a visual fest of colors.
The senses are stimulated and the room becomes wonderfully vivacious. Although there are not many reviews available for this interactive light display, “Disturb Me” is a phenomenal visual masterpiece, coined to re-establish the connection between us and our surroundings through the sound medium. When a room’s occupant emanates resonance, colored orb projections starts to materialize. These projections then begin to vary, pool and plummet in accordance to the fixtures and corporeal surfaces in the room.
Not much has been written about the set up verification, and how exactly these mood-sensing protuberances recognize where to set out to, but these illustrations at the White Hotel in Brussels are quite spectacular and proffers cool and ambient depictions of subsequent echelons of interactive and distinctive illumination. It is undoubtedly the wave of the future, a one-of-a-kind hotel experience for those seeking something different.
Disturb me – Brussels from Thepopcornmakers on Vimeo.
