A team of architects and designers from the Woodhead Sydney Studio have created an artificial biomorphic installation to be exhibited in First Fleet Park at this years internationally-acclaimed Vivid Sydney festival.
ALF (Artificial Light Form) is a visual representation of the symbiotic nature of the bluebottle, digitally designed and fabricated from recyclable resin panels. ALF’s has been created to dynamically interact with the public. Passerby can interact, touch and feel ALF, and it’s vibrant colours will morph and change with each individual and subsequent interaction, acting though the relationship of people to public space.
ALF has recently been constructed at Big City Production Services in Sydney, ready to be moved to the Woodhead Sydney Studio for its final stage of fabrication ready for the opening on the festival on 27 May 2011.
ALF was created as a collaboration between Woodhead Sydney Architects Catherine Kuok, Victoria Bolton, designer Kim Nguyen Ngoc, Guy Hanson as well as Steve Brims from Umow Lai. The project is sponsored by Woodhead, Umow Lai, Osram, Powersense, Phillips Dynalite and Waterman. The Woodhead members of the team operate through wa(A)ve (Woodhead Advanced Architecture and Virtual Environments). wa(A)ve is a core research team that supports Woodhead projects across all portfolios. It brings together theory, technology and material exploration to the design process. It operates as a ‘think tank’ of collective minds, with team members from each of the seven Woodhead studios.
ALF is one of 24 sculptures displayed in The Rocks curated by Architectural-lighting designer Mary-Anne Kyriakou, whose light art and music installations have been exhibited internationally. The Sydney Opera House will once again be the focal point of the festival with Vivid LIVE, an incredible music program of local and international artists curated by Stephen ‘Pav’ Pavolic of Modular, who has chosen the incredible French-based digital projection artists Superbien to light the sails.
A blog has been set up to follow the evolution of ALF from concept to completion:
http://artificiallightform.wordpress.com/
A Facebook fan page has also been created to follow the progress of ALF: http://www.facebook.com/ArtificialLightForm
Vivid Sydney is one of five signature events on the NSW Events Calendar developed by Events NSW on behalf of the NSW Government.
The full Vivid Sydney program is available at http://www.vividsydney.com
