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14.01.03 Twilight, a floating screen.
The works of the french group Hehe.org, founded by Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen, are installations which physically interact with the user creating a space which rethinks technology according to the user's physical presence. Up to the par is their work 'Twilight', shown at the ISEA 2002 (see), where the artists created a screen made of 256 LEDs, mounted on a matrix structure of steel wires which lets them float in the dark. Each LED is addressed as a unique pixel, powered by electricity, and diffuses its light throught a cone of waxed paper. The user is encouraged to blow on the windmills, therefore participating to the work as a performer, causing an audiovisual response which makes the installation 'breathe'. The screen, always present in our everyday space, undergoes a reconfiguration, blending with the surrounding space and showing its structure and its characteristic features. The screen isn't a bidimensional retroilluminated place anymore, but an artificial being, manifest in its working and unfolded from its originary compactness.