Justin Lui
"Openings", 2008
Enter new class name | Prof. David Erdman
(with Andrea Boeck and Jihyun Kim)
An interactive storefront installation, to be built into the façade wall of the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) gallery in Hollywood. Custom modular vacuum-formed panels are adjacently tiled on exterior and interior sides to create a continuous - yet porous - surface. On both sides of the existing window, these panels combine to form apertures which create selective viewing tunnels into the gallery. LED illumination dims according to sensed presence of pedestrians. LCD displays on the sidewalk side show data from LACE's history of art openings, while LCDs on the interior (gallery) side show data about local personalities encountered on Hollywood Blvd.
Located at a border condition between the Hollywood Blvd. tourism context and the art environment of LACE, Openings acts as an active membrane between the two zones, pulling Hollywood Blvd. into the gallery, and LACE gallery onto the street.
Installation date: August 22, 2008.
More Info: http://www.justinlui.net/projects/openings/
Other projects by Justin Lui:
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Speak & Spoil: The Ambiguity Of Language 2007 |
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Top Run 2007 |
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Perforated Vibrating Mirror 2008 |
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Water Clouds of Light 2008 |
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Animate Field 2009 |