A virtual social installation by John Fillwalk and IDIA Lab
This mobile artwork, which originally premiered at Nuit Blanche Toronto – a city wide light festival – activates a locative environment in which participants engage in a dynamic social experience. Individual users of the app – available on both Apple AppStore and Android GooglePlay – interact with a live locative network, allowing them to discover, connect and form groups with other users on a city map. Once in a group, users devices are automatically synced with screen light, LED flash and music based on the properties of fireflies. Participants can view other groups identified on a live map by specific colors – forming a dynamic chorus of collaborative synchronous light and music. The frequencies of actual fireflies and their colors are employed in this social media work.
Firefly
By
John Fillwalk, Artist, IDIA Lab at Ball State University
With
David Rodriguez, Programmer, IDIA Lab at Ball State University
Lucas Baughman, Composer, IDIA Lab at Ball State University
Neil Zehr, Programmer, IDIA Lab at Ball State University
Ina-Marie Johnston, Designer, IDIA Lab at Ball State University
