kathryn & martin bevz

Luminous Flight (Vivid Sydney 2018)

Luminous Flight (Vivid Sydney 2018) Via Flickr: Photographer © Leon Sidik © All rights reserved. Use without permission is illegal. Please do not use this image for any purpose (such as; do not use the image on your website, blog, or other media) without my express written permission. Contact me via my web site for permission or licensing information. Follow me on Instagram Follow me on Facebook www.leonsidik.com

#vividsydney (Vivid Sydney 2014) Via Flickr: There’s no escaping data. Our everyday actions generate it in abundance, with much of it going unnoticed—until now. “#vividsydney” is an interactive installation that collects realtime data and interprets it as vibrant colours that dance within a framework of LED tubes. When you hashtag “#vividsydney”, realtime statistics will be collected and used to trigger colour chases and patterns through the LED tubes. The amount of hashtags collected over a time period are compared to the running mean, or continuously varying average. The result is then mapped to the playback rate and intensity. “#vividsydney” features 110 custom high-brightness LED tubes with a total of 880 individually controllable pixels. A custom app harvests social media activity to influence the lighting effect. As the virality of the hashtag increases, the effects become more expressive and dynamic; subtle effects represent decreasing virality. As we all know, the hashtag has been embraced by all major social media platforms and acts as a powerful metadata tool that indicates and shares trending topics and online behaviour. At Vivid Sydney 2014, the hashtag takes on a new persona and comes out to play in full-blown light and spectacular colour. Kathryn Bevz and Martin Bevz have worked together as a collaborative team since first exhibiting “Immersion” for Vivid Sydney in early 2011. They exhibited again in 2012 with the works “Sea Grass” and “Light Hop”, and “Sky Grass” in 2013.

Sky Grass (Vivid Sydney 2013) Via Flickr: Sky Grass by Martin and Kathryn Bevz

Light Hearted (Vivid Chatswood 2019)

Chrysalis (Vivid Sydney 2018)

Chrysalis (Vivid Sydney 2018)

Chrysalis (Vivid Sydney, 2018)