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Experience the power and beauty of the sun through SUN STOMP: a Solar powered LED display and interactive audio-visual environment at Light City Baltimore.
Visual Arts
Premiering at the 2018 Light City Baltimore festival, Sun Stomp was a solar powered light and interactive audio-visual environment that for eight nights activated McKeldin Square. The monumental scaffolding sculpture featured an interactive projection on one side and an array of sixteen 290 watt solar panels on the other. Electrical energy collected during the day and was stored as chemical energy in a battery bank which provided electricity to a colorful array of LED neon lights illuminating the structure after dark. Participants were invited to stomp on the bleacher footboards to trigger sun-inspired visuals and amplified sounds of the Sun sourced from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Passersby were also invited to peer into the custom built “Power Shed” to learn about the solar technology and AV controls energizing the project. Foot-stomping powers combined, participants visually and experientially conjured the awesome and beautiful power of the sun. Sun Stomp was created by Graham Coreil-Allen, Mark Brown, and Matt Weaver. Learn more at https://sunstomp.art
05/01/2018
rendering vs reality. Light City was a blast!
04/27/2018
Thanks to Land Art Generator Initiative and Tafline Laylin for sharing the origin story! Click below for our interview:
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04/22/2018
Last night to get crazy 😜 on ! Join us now until midnight. @ Sun Stomp
04/20/2018
Two nights left to experience Light City!! Get stomping!
Lava light .
is lit and it’s time for the early evening kid cacophony.
Foot lit on !
Get 😜 on tonight and all week .
Behold the power of !! Thanks to all the radical pedestrians who activated our solar powered project at the massive first night of .
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Experience the power and beauty of the sun through SUN STOMP: a Solar powered LED display and interactive audio-visual environment at Light City Baltimore, April 14-21.
Premiering at the 2018 Light City Baltimore festival, Sun Stomp will be a solar powered, LED-lit framework supporting a participatory, sun-inspired video projection and soundscape. The monumental scaffolding structure will feature an interactive projection on one side and a sloped bank of solar panels on the other. Energy collected during the day will power a three-story, colorful array of LED lights illuminating the open grid sculpture after dark. Participants will trigger projected visuals and amplified sounds by touching and sitting on contact-microphoned viewing bleachers. Sun Stomp’s solar powered LED display and interactive audio-visual environment will visually and experientially demonstrate the awesome and beautiful power of the sun.
The Baltimore-based Sun Stomp Collective brings expertise in solar energy, interactive media, and participatory environments. Matthew Weaver has over a decade of experience in renewable energy engineering, including hydrogen and solar; and grassroots organizing around social justice and sustainability. Mark Brown is a video artist, DJ, curator, and AV expert at the Peabody Conservatory. His video work embraces the Internet as both gallery and medium, creating new works from the cracks, glitches, and fall-out of digital realities. Graham Coreil-Allen is a public artist and organizer making cities more inclusive and livable through public art, radical walking tours, and civic engagement.
Find out more about the project at http://sunstomp.art
Find out more about Light City at https://lightcity.org
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