How do we experience time? Is it a mathematical dimension or a subjective flow of fragmented experiences?

Duration juxtaposes these radically different perspectives, mechanical yet personal. The audiovisual installation is a responsive grid, a mechanism or parametric clockwork, that distributes light and sound across space and time, allowing visitors to enter multiple temporal dimensions. The experience is processed by a custom-built echo system that deconstructs singular audio inputs into patterns and interplays them with light.

CONTROL NO CONTROL is a big LED cube that reacts to everything that touches it and every movement performed on its surface. Streamlined patterns and generative sound emerge as interaction occurs. Allowing 48 people to participate at the same time, the experience is extremely intuitive, leading to quick audience engagement and prolonged interactions.

A sort of socio-digital experiment, the piece explores the relationship between participants and interactive installations. It tests the artwork’s ability to intrinsically “instruct” and delegate the final audiovisual result to the audience that ends up gaining control of the piece. After presenting it many times across continents and cultures, CONTROL NO CONTROL revealed that people all over the globe tend to behave the same way around the cube, and all seemed to spend a lot of time engaging. This in turn suggests the ability for the artwork to manipulate the public as well, highlighting the back-and-forth blurred nature of the control relationship.