I wonder how many different shapes can be created that could be painted black, placed in just the right environment and exude a kind of ominous foreboding. This sci-fi geometric object has the extra addition of lights and sound that, on its own, rotates through a simple pattern undisturbed. When it’s approached though, the video and audio patterns eerily change – a representation of how we may interact with a strange artificial intelligence. I discovered that more than one person could approach this object, put their hands over the sensors and cause all of the lights to shine simultaneously – meaning that we had more control over this “alien” than we might otherwise have in a future encounter with such an object. I thought of posting a fuzzy video that zaps the mystery out of the experience by showing this moment, but decided instead to use three others provided by the artist himself, Félix Luque Sánchez.
(thanks to Félix Luque Sánchez)