Light Up the Skies
When two artists with diverse stylish foundations team up, they often create
breathtakingly beautiful pieces, and the collaboration between artist’s Aaron Koblin and
Janet Echelman is no exception.
Janet Echelman creates fishnet-like sculptures that look as if they were floating in the
sky. The nets’ shapes are changed to portray anything one can imagine. Aaron Koblin is
an artist and designer who focuses on data and digital technologies.
These artists collaborated together on March 15, 2014 at TED 2014 to create “Skies
Painted with Unnumbered Sparks” outside the Vancouver Convention Centre In order to
make such a piece possible, Echelman needed the aid of a program called Autodesk, a 3D
design engineering program that works with design challenges. The amazing feature
about this outdoor piece is that people can choreograph the lights on the web with their
smartphones, controlling the aesthetic nature of the piece through technology. This is an
excellent display of how science can augment art. Through the science of the internet,
people can design their own art through TED technologies.
Made by Youssef Sharkawy