Digital Womens Network

The art studio, Loop.pH specialise in the design and research of responsive textiles & structures for the built environment. Their work aims to provide a more intuitive understanding of our natural environment and mediates between craft, technology and nature.
 

Loop.pH were commissioned by Sunderland City Council and ISIS Arts, to make a site specific installation using light as part of the SHINE festival 2006. They created a responsive play space entitled Sonumbra by erecting an umbrella structure in Mowbray Park. Sonumbra is designed to respond to the interplay and activity of the people orbiting the umbrella by casting a sonic shade of light. The atmosphere of musical rhythms, harmonies and luminous patterns are composed by the visitors’ movement - either active or passive.  The light emitting fabric of the umbrella is crafted into a lacework of many electroluminescent fibres. This latticed pattern is animated in concert with the generated surround sound. It illustrates visually the visitors’ position in the constellation. Wandering unaware or actively gravitating towards Sonumbra each person plays a part and becomes a note in a unique composition of light and sound.
 
For this talk Loop.pH will talk about Sonumbra as well as previous works. At the end of the talk they will guide visitors to the installation in the park.

Further information on Loop.pH can be found on www.loop.ph/

Further information on the festival can be found on: http://www.sunderland.gov.uk/christmas/#Shine

 
SHINE is an international festival of newly commissioned artworks and projects that use light in innovative ways. It is delivered by the following cultural partners: Sunderland City Council with ISIS Arts, the Reg Vardy Gallery, the National Glass Centre with Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, /sLab at Sunderland University & Sunderland Arc.
 
Shine is one of North East England’s Dazzling Winter Festivals