Flow
Artist
Max Keene
MediumCopper tubing, fused and slumped glass, ABS plastic, video cameras, LED's, custom electronics
Dimensions1st floor artwork: 24"h x 36"w x 96"d; 2nd floor artwork: 24"h x 24"w x 48"d
ClassificationsIntegrated Art
Credit LineSeattle Public Utilities 1% for Art funds
Description: These artworks are light-based interactive installations, suspended from the ceiling by copper pipes. The first-floor artwork includes modules composed of an array of LED lights set behind sheets of curved blue glass. Video cameras installed in the piece react to light and people’s movements below by slowly reconfiguring patterns of LED lights. The second-floor piece is composed of LED panels behind curved diffused glass. Motion sensors installed in the piece detect the presence of people, and LED lights illuminate and fade between three different colors as people move underneath the artwork.
Artist Statement: Flow is an artwork that is intended to reference the flow of water, energy, information and people. Evolving patterns of light tracing movement and energy mirror Seattle Public Utilities' charge of building and maintaining infrastructure to facilitate the city's flow of clean water. Shifting, flowing, aqueous light suggests a theme of flowing water in a clean environment, which is made possible in part by SPU’s removal of wastewater and solid waste from our communities. The artwork’s pace and mood is meditative and ever-changing and designed to integrate peacefully within the Operation Control Center’s employee break areas.
Location: Operations Control Center, 2700 Airport Way South, Seattle WA 98134
