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Installation

2014

Interactive Campfire

A campfire for a digital festival: nine glowing logs that change colour as people drag a finger across their phones.

Interactive Campfire: glowing pink and blue logs

Discipline

Installation

Deliverable

Interactive installation

Year

2014

Role

Concept and design with Marta Timmer (Wild Forest)

Close-up of the Campfire logs lit orange

The project

Interactive installation created for CAMP Festival in Calgary. It takes the simple idea of gathering around a fire to share stories and turns it into a sculpture: nine abstract triangular logs of dark-stained wood and acrylic, lit from inside by LEDs and controlled from a web app on visitors’ phones.

Dragging a finger across the screen changes the colour of the fire. The more people join in, the more colourful and alive it gets. Campfire debuted at the GRAND during CAMP 2014, then showed at DaDe Art & Design Lab in Inglewood and at CAMP 2015.

Campfire glowing green in a dark roomClose-up of the logs lit orangePhones running the Campfire web appThe logs lit deep blueCampfire glowing redPink and violet light across the logs

Process

Assembling the sculpture in the workshopRaw wooden log forms on a workbenchInstalling Campfire at the GRAND

Concept and design: Marta Timmer and Bram Timmer (Wild Forest). Software: Edward Keeble. Fabrication: Bennett Stevens. 3D modelling: Everett Robinson.

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