Emerging from a cloud of smoke, a series of high powered lasers radiate across translucent pillars creating a mystic sculptural environment in real time. This architectural multi-sensory installation is the brainchild of NaiveLaser, an art and technology collective started by collaborators Ana Herruzo and Jaine Sanchez. The project is called Captured Atmospheres and was originally commissioned as a part of The Paseo Taos Arts Festival in New Mexico. Utilizing real time laser techniques and physical computing, NaiveLaser creates an immersive display that plays architectural material and ephemeral matter. The sculpture's pillars vary in height, like the pipes of a church organ, and serve as a canvas for the artist to project their lasers onto. The arrangement pillars adds a layer of distortion to the lasers, turning their otherwise linear beams of light into dynamic abstract patterns. All of the smoke machines are manipulated in real time via a TouchDesigner controller. As the smoke rises from the tubes the lasers are there to meet it. As the smoke disperses the light spreads with it, generating what the artists describe as "a series of vignettes that create an augmented expose of the intangible." Check out the installation in action below:
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