Another Moon

Installation

Description

Another Moon is a large-scale outdoor apparition that creates a technically sublime second moon. 40 towers collect the sun's energy during the day and project that light back into the sky at night, creating a second moon overhead where their beams tightly superimpose to create the three-dimensional form. The public artwork could be viewed up to 1km away, creating a focus to bring people back together into a post-corona era.

The project was first presented in the industrial ruins of the Zeche Zollverein (historically the most productive coal mine in Europe). Each night the lasers turn off one by one as their batteries deplete, in relation to how much sunshine arrived on that particular day. This mechanism replays the fragile energy of the day, unwinding our on-demand instinct for energy which became prevalent during the era of Coal power.

Credits

Medium
Calibration, Code, Laser projectors, Microcontrollers, Photo-voltaic solar, LiFePo4 batteries, Wireless networking
Duration
each night is determined by the solar irradiance of the preceding day

About the artists

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    Photo: Stelios Tzetzias

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    Photo: Pinelopi Gerasimou

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    Photo: Orfeas Kalafatis