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Hall of Da Lites, a collaboration with Greg Bowman, debuted at the Lusio festival in 2023. An interactive exhibit, it features a hallway flanked by translucent walls that pulse with light. As visitors pass through, reaching toward three hot spots triggers visual bursts accompanied by bird calls, beeps, and boops emanating from stereo speakers. The hallway width accommodated comfortable passage for visitors, depending on the complexity of their costumes.
Since the whole piece is transparent, it could be experienced from both inside and out. Visitors could walk inside and interact with the hot spots, or watch from outside, and see silhouettes of the people inside. The hot spot sensors were small infrared proximity detectors, connected to Arduinos, which drove all the interactive experience. Two laptops powered the piece: one to mind all the input from the hotspots and play sounds, and the other to produce the visuals, which were projection-mapped from the outsides of the piece.
