Alison Hoffman Looking Outward 2

For this post I looked at the work of Memo Akten. His series on Simple Harmonic Motion immediately stood out to me. His instillation at the Blenheim Palace, Simple Harmonic Motion for Light #11,in particular is rather fascinating. I admire how he uses something as abundant as light to create something so unique and complex. Memo uses a generated a simple harmony to create the movement of the light beams. While the mechanics are simple, the end product is nothing short of complex due to the natural properties of light. The harmonic motion is generated by an algorithm, but the refraction of light due to cloud coverage makes the work unpredictable.Memo used openFrameworks, a C++ ‘toolkit’, to create the algorithm for this piece.