October 26, 2012

1st Place Winner for LAGI 2012: Scene Sensor // Crossing Social and Ecological Flows




1st Place Winner for LAGI 2012: Scene Sensor // Crossing Social and Ecological Flows

Artist Team...................: James Murray, Shota Vashakmadze
Artist Location...............: Atlanta, USA
Energy Technologies..: Piezoelectric Generators (Thin Film and Embedded Wire)
Annual Capacity............: 5,500 MWh

Key interactions of human and ecological energies, above and below the surface of Freshkills, drive complex environmental flows, allowing us to question how to sense, channel, and harness their energies in a productive tension, revealing their interconnected fluctuations in beneficial ways.

Scene-Sensor situates itself at the intersection of flows joining and separating opposing landforms: as a channel screen, harnessing the flows of wind through the tidal artery, and as vantage points, staging crosswise pedestrian flows through the park, the two acting in combination as a mirror-window, reflecting and revealing the scene of Freshkills’ fluctuating landscape back to itself.