Emotional Lighting Systems is a series of lamps that exhibit various personality traits. Built from several pieces augmented by moveable mechanics and original software that react to viewers’ proximity or speed and the sounds they make, the lamps dim, light up, follow, and collapse, according to their given “personalities.” Each separate piece in Emotional Lighting Systems is created using a similar mechanical infrastructure and computer-generated intelligence.
ShareSawad Brooks’s visual and computer-based work has been exhibited at spaces including The Whitney Museum and Postmasters Gallery in New York; The Walker …
Read Full Bio2003: Emotional Lighting Systems is shown in the How Latitudes Become Forms exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis