A project designed in collaboration with Jacqui Manzi and built in collaboration with Jacqui Manzi and Andy McMurry. The Metaphorbs are a set of 10 acrylic spheres lined with 45 RGB LEDs. Each LED is touch sensitive and each orb contains a zigbee wireless module to enable communication between the orbs and a central computer. Each orb hangs from a wire and and can be spun freely on a bearing attached to the wire.
These features combine to create an interactive experience whereby interactions with a single orb affect not just that orb, but surrounding orbs as well.
This is the video we produced for the art grant that helped fund the creation of a full set of Metaphorbs.
Video Editing by Johnathan West