Environment Strobe No. 4 (1967) by Davide Boriani
Environment Strobe No. 4 (1967) Ambiente Stroboscopico No. 4 (1967) by Davide Boriani Museo del Novecento in Milano, Italy
First you have to sign a waiver before entering the Programmed & Kinetic Art installations.
One enters a dark room where the entire floor is painted with green and red stripes (trippy!) and strobe red and green lights on the ceiling, with moving mirror walls that steers you along the confined space.
How it works: The walls are covered with mirrors. At the center, four panels are covered with mirrors, in order to restrict the amount of space the participant can walk. The floor consists of 12 platforms that have sensors on them which are also painted by alternating bands of red and green. In the ceiling there are four strobe lights, alternating between flashing red or green controlled by the sensors in the floor. The four central panels rotate as the participant walks, they all begin to rotate and stop when the set has reached one of the 16 programmed positions. The viewer enters at the center of a space.
A tactile experience (physical contact with the ground), contradicted by the effects of optical movement (illusion) and vibration of the flashes of red and green bands of complementary color of the floor.
Below are two images of Ambiente stroboscopico No. 3 (1967)
