To celebrate the launch of the Restaurant and Bar Design Awards, Cinimod Studio was commissioned to create an outdoor interactive lighting installation. Conceived as an exploded blank canvas, the huge “exploded globe of light” was suspended from the trees over London’s famed Hoxton Square and was interactively controlled (in VVVV!) by the guests. See video.

Each guest had been issued with a punch card consisting of 3 lines (the R, G, and B components) which were read left to right as a timeline. This allowed each person to choreograph their own colour sequence.

The Globe was constructed with a structural aluminium core and ribs, to which panels of Foamalux were fixed. An array of individually addressable Martin Professional LED fixtures provided the full colour illumination to the globe, and created the unique dappled light projections across Hoxton Square. A bespoke software programme, coded by Cinimod Studio in VVVV, controlled the overall installation.

The control plinth was in one corner of the park. Visitors inserted their punch cards into the top slot. The hole pattern was grabbed by a webcam and the colour sequence and timecode interpreted. The plinth would first flash through the colour sequence, and then a few seconds later it would be 'uploaded' to the main hanging globe where the colour would rotate around the globe.