Ethan Proia
Environment Extension
1. the artificial augmentation of a physical space
Environment Extension #2 is a passively interactive kinetic light sculpture. Movement and depth information are sourced in real-time as people navigate The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s LeRoy Neiman Center. In an effort to delicately disrupt the accepted language of “data visualization”, Environment Extension #2 is not a representation of a recorded dataset, but rather an expression of a real-time relationship of cause and effect. Our biofields - the energy emitted by the body - displace matter as we move through space. Our bodies become the data as Environment Extension #2 visualizes our presence; the ripples we make.
