Art and technology merge at Chinook Arc to offer an interactive experience of light and color

A sensor allows visitors to interact with the Chinook Arc to offer an immersive multi-color dynamic light show that they control themselves. Their movements are what activate the LED lighting of the sculpture to project the visual sequences.

Chinook Arc is an interactive sculpture, Built with acrylic materials and equipped with LED technology and sensors, allowing visitors to become active participants in the experience, changing the lighting sequence through your movements.

The historic Beltline streetcar circuit and the Chinook arch that periodically covers the sky have been the inspiration for artists Joe O'Connell and Blessing Hancock to design this work of art with sharp edges and rounded curves that is installed in Barb Scottm Park in the city of Calgary (Canada). A project that has been built by the company Creative Machines and which was inaugurated this summer.

Creative Machines designed an optical sensor for the Chinook Arc, allowing visitors to control their lighting. When you wave your hands in front of this sensor, a swirling beam of light responds to movements, creating a multicolored spectacle.

In addition, It is also possible to move all types of objects or play a video on your mobile to create personalized light sequences that circle throughout the sculpture on a low-resolution screen. When there is no one near the sculpture and you do not interact with it, lighting phases are projected through a series of color sequences.

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