MirandaLuong-LookingOutwards-08

My artist is Meejin Yoon who is a professor of architecture at MIT. She was born in Seoul, South Korea and attended Cornell for her bachelors and later received further education at Harvard. Yoon’s main area of focus is within the domain of responsive and interactive architecture. Her projects are innovative in her use of technology, especially new and novel technologies that have not been widely adopted.

The project I most admire is Swing time (above), located between the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and D Street. The installation uses custom polypropylene and LED lights that are controlled based on movement. I thought this was quite unique given that most of the projects I have seen thus far in this class have used various algorithms. This piece is reactive and as such uses an internal accelerometer to measure acceleration forces. This combination of data and LED lightning creates beautiful displays that really light up a community.