PING is a line of light- and soundbeacons
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PING
In earlier times, primitive means like smoke signals, fire beacons and the sounds of beating drums were used to transmit messages across vast distances. Light art installation PING alludes to these past methods of communication in a most contemporary manner. Merging art and technology, artist Gijs van Bon has created a high-tech, intelligent network of light and sound beacons that immerses viewers in the rolling flow of information. Elusive messages travel along two hundred interconnected beacons in a chain reaction of rolling lights and dynamic sounds. At times hushed and poetic, other times loud and insistent, PING embraces viewers with the spirit of communication of both a bygone era and the highly technological present.
PING first saw the light during GLOW 2018 in Eindhoven and returned to the city for GLOW 2019. PING travelled south for Bright Brussels 2020.
In earlier times, primitive means like smoke signals, fire beacons and the sounds of beating drums were used to transmit messages across vast distances. Light art installation PING alludes to these past methods of communication in a most contemporary manner. Merging art and technology, artist Gijs van Bon has created a high-tech, intelligent network of light and sound beacons that immerses viewers in the rolling flow of information. Elusive messages travel along two hundred interconnected beacons in a chain reaction of rolling lights and dynamic sounds. At times hushed and poetic, other times loud and insistent, PING embraces viewers with the spirit of communication of both a bygone era and the highly technological present.
PING first saw the light during GLOW 2018 in Eindhoven and returned to the city for GLOW 2019. PING travelled south for Bright Brussels 2020.