'hikari' cube

Recently I shot an interactive art project made by Miya Ando (www.miyaando.com) and James George (www.jamesgeorge.org). Miya is an artist who makes amazing paintings and sculpture mostly in steel. She chemically treats and abrades the metal creating scenes that almost perfectly replicate the simulaneus dullness and reflectiveness of being caught in a fog bank in Puget Sound. James is a friend and a brilliant multi-media/interactive artist with a background in computer science. He has done amazing work with both dance and interactivity lately - check his site, it's amazing stuff. 

The sculpture itself is a brushed steel cube with a small lit slit along the sides. It detects your presence and will respond to stimuli with pulsating light. Just in the process of photographing I felt myself developing an affinity to it. The piece is being shown in Germany right now, but I'm hoping this stainless-steel furby will come back to the states soon. Post-processing on these images was done by James.