Harvestworks

Little Box

Little Box

Little Box is an interactive artwork using sensors, robotics, light and sound within a simply designed box, to express   peace and harmony. Once open, Little Box continuously detects presence. When the surrounding is agitated (for example, a person moves quickly, or several people are moving around), then Little Box pulses faster and faster, the color of the light gradually becoming red, and the sound coming faster and in louder bursts. When the surroundings calm down, Little Box resumes emitting a peaceful atmosphere.

Little Box is an interactive artwork using sensors, robotics, light and sound within a simply designed box, to express   peace and harmony. Once open, Little Box continuously detects presence. When the surrounding is agitated (for example, a person moves quickly, or several people are moving around), then Little Box pulses faster and faster, the color of the light gradually becoming red, and the sound coming faster and in louder bursts. When the surroundings calm down, Little Box resumes emitting a peaceful atmosphere.

Culturally, as our emotional states are used in an exchange with currency (through manipulative advertising, media, entertainment) it is possible to fall further away from recognizing what we are really feeling as a human. Little Box is part of a new series titled Emotions, which aims to express basic human emotions through light and sound using everyday objects.

Marie Sester

Marie Sester is a French-American artist working primarily with digital technologies to create works in a variety of media and formats, most often presenting responsive media. Born in France, Marie Sester began her career as an architect after earning a Master’s Degree from the Ecole d’Architecture in Strasbourg, France. Her interests soon shifted from designing physical structures to the study of ideological ones, and of how culture, politics and technology affect our spatial awareness, our emotions and behavior.