rAndom International Unveils Brilliant Kinetic Artworks During Paris Design Week

London-based studio <a title="rAndom International Reveal Brilliant Kinetic Artworks During Paris Design Week" href="http://random-international.com/" target="_blank">rAndom International</a> showcased a brilliant collection of works at Le Marais' <a title="rAndom International Reveal Brilliant Kinetic Artworks During Paris Design Week" href="http://carpentersworkshopgallery.com/en/Exhibitions" target="_blank">Carpenters Workshop Gallery</a> during this year's<a title="rAndom International Reveal Brilliant Kinetic Artworks During Paris Design Week" href="http://www.parisdesignweek.fr/en/" target="_blank"> Paris Design Week</a>. Surprising, fun and low-energy, "Before The Rain" consist of a series of <a title="rAndom International Reveal Brilliant Kinetic Artworks During Paris Design Week" href="http://inhabitat.com/beaming-reflex-installation-features-thousands-of-interactive-led-lights/" target="_blank">kinetic artworks</a> and interactive installations that respond to viewers' movements, making them more self-aware. Founded by Stuart Wood, Florian Ortkrasss and Hannes Koch, Random International has been creating kinetic dialogues between machines and humans since 2005.

Their latest piece, "Future Self" (2012), is made from thousands of hanging LEDs.

3D cameras react to people's movements reflecting a light sculpture that reveals our own identities and bodies.

In a similar (albeit 2-dimensional) way "You Fade To Light" reflect the viewer's movements in a pixellated <a title="rAndom International Reveal Brilliant Kinetic Artworks During Paris Design Week" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLED" target="_blank">OLED</a> screen that slowly dissolves into radiant light.

"Study of Time" is an illuminated autonomous algorithm that displays a digital clock to explore the relationship between human creations like time, light and shadow.

"Swarm Light" mixes <a title="rAndom International Reveal Brilliant Kinetic Artworks During Paris Design Week" href="http://inhabitat.com/mit-researchers-create-led-light-that-exceeds-100-percent-efficiency/" target="_blank">LEDs</a> hanging from polished brass rods with custom circuits boards, custom driver software and hardware, a behavioral <a title="rAndom International Reveal Brilliant Kinetic Artworks During Paris Design Week" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm" target="_blank">algorithm</a>, sound / motion sensors and a computer interface to represent "collective consciousness"

All this technology is able to emulate group behavior (e.g. birds') found in nature and represent it with moving light.

As explained on their website: "We attempt to simulate the natural by reducing the subtleties of behavior down to the minimum required for recognition to explore our own, human, existence.”