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.