Mind-Bending UV Art Installation in Japan is Held in a Cave-Like Shipping Container!

We don't hide <a href="http://inhabitat.com/breathtaking-shipping-container-studio-in-san-antonio/">our love for shipping containers</a> or cool, sustainable art projects, but <a href="http://www.holduparchitecture.com/">holdUP Architecture's</a> unique marriage of the two really grabbed us when we first saw it in 2011. Spotted over on <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/182569/from-off-to-on-installation-holdup/110806-complete-fr/">Arch Daily</a>, the team's "From Off to On" interactive UV art installation involves little more than an upcycled shipping container, a UV pen and drawing table inside, a <a href="http://www.thereminworld.com/news.asp?s=920">theremin interface</a> that detects human magnetic fields, and a whole lot of darkness. Step on in for mind-bending images and more details about how this fascinating project works.

For their amazing UV art installation exhibited this year in Japan, holdUP Architecture received an honorable mention.

The team designed an interactive art installation that is held in an upcycled shipping container.

The outside of the container resembles a chalked-up blackboard.

When users enter the container they confront complete darkness.

The theremin interface begins to light up when the would-be artists start to move through the container.

When the user sits down at the drawing table and starts working with a UV pen, then the light really starts to fire up

The theremin responds to magnetic fields coming from the human body!

In addition to being very exciting, the low energy installation also uses few materials

This project was spotted over on Arch Daily

holdUP Architecture's marriage of an upcycled shipping container and cool, sustainable art has given our Friday such a great start!