Stefanie Suk – Looking Outwards – 10

Urban Lights Contacts is an interactive installation the senses varying degrees of electrostatic contact according to how close people’s bodies are. The only way to activate this work is to make multiple people contact each other’s skin. For example, a person put his or her hands onto the interactive shiny sphere, but him or her alone won’t create any sound. He or she must make another come and touch his or her hand to make the installation activate. This installation encourages people to touch and come close together to create a new sound at the moment. The sensory of the work is tactile, creates light, and also emits sound. It encourages interactive stagings of the public’s bodies, which basically makes the people turn into a “human instrument.” I am admired by this installation because it brings together the public for a unique art and technology experience. Also, I find it interesting that this work creates unpredictable relationships between the public who interacts with the installation.