Origin LED Installation is a Giant Technocratic Life Form Under the Brooklyn Bridge

<a href="http://www.uva.co.uk/work/origin-3#/10" target="_blank">Origin</a> is an intelligent being straight out of a sci-fi film. Meant to explore our society’s acceptance of a technocratic life form, this cubic being is powered with linear LEDs, controlled by a computer, and programmed as it it were a living, thinking, breathing thing. Origin, which occupied the Fulton Ferry section of Brooklyn Bridge Park last October, was built by <a href="http://www.uva.co.uk/" target="_blank">United Visual Artists</a> in collaboration with <a href="http://www.scannerdot.com/scanner.shtml" target="_blank">Scanner</a> who composed the original score. Relying on a data set of 1s and 0s (on or off), the installation is a dizzying display of technological life.

Origin is the latest installation by <a href="http://www.uva.co.uk/" target="_blank">United Visual Artists (UVA)</a> to explore and create large-scale responsive LED sculptures.

Built from 125 two-meter cubic spaces, Origin is at once both a sculpture and a living being.

Linear LED strips are mounted in the cubic lattice network and controlled via computer in a multitude of patterns, rhythms and moods.

There are different programs for when Origin powers up, is thinking, working hard, arguing, sleeping, breathing, resting, singing, and much more.

<a href="http://www.scannerdot.com/scanner.shtml" target="_blank">Scanner</a> composed the original score for the installation and the lighting was designed to accompany it.

The 10 x 10 meter installation was set between the two bridges on Brooklyn’s shore, and is a reflection of the city's infrastructure.

The project was part of <a href="http://thecreatorsproject.com/" target="_blank">The Creators Project</a> New York event and is a responsive installation meant to explore our society’s acceptance of a technocratic life form.

The structure pulsed and vibrated around you, making you unsure whether or not you were making it work or if it was acting of its own accord.

Origin is UVA's vision of what a computerized god would look and sound like.

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