Greyworld
Listening to: The air conditioning kicking in.
Often on BBC World I have seen interviews done in the atrium of the London Stock
Exchange. In the background of these interviews is this kinetic sculpture which has
always captivated me:
Turns out it was done an art-programming collective called Greyworld.
Here are the stats from the Wired
article that describes the system:
The eight-story installation, dubbed the Source, consists of 729 spheres suspended
from 81 pairs of cables. Each strand stretches the height of the LSE’s 105-foot atrium,
and every sphere runs on an internal motor. When connected to a server, the 6-inch
orbs form abstract patterns and words, everything from a double helix to news from
RSS feeds.
