Location: Hsinchu, Taiwan
Program: Taiwan Lantern Festival

The perfect site to represent Taiwan Lantern festival, 2021 is Hsinchu, the oldest city in northern Taiwan, as known as a city of agriculture and technologies.
Hsinchu's agricultural is aimed to be a smart farming with artificial Intelligence technologies and take the most advantage from natural sources such as, sunlight, wind, water, and land in the natural environment. As inspiration sources to rethink the relationship between farming, nature and technologies.

Great agricultural products are not only from the best seeds but also the earth, light, water and wind, to govern them.

Blooms in the Wind is a kinetic Lighting Installation that reacts to wind speeds, both on the site wind speeds and through air canons by human interactions. The light colours trigger by wind speeds and each colour represents a range of wind, on the report of the Beaufort scale.

In this work, the physical factors in the natural world-wind and dynamic structure-will be transformed into a visualised future technological experience.
The interactions between human and nature via the installation will enhance awareness of how natural sources are important for life and agriculture.
In the pursuit of modernist art design, modelling is often simplified into a single regular geometric shape, which lacks dynamic performance and loses the fun of mechanical structure manufacturing. A flower and a grass in nature seem to lose its due foundation in this so-called minimalist formula.

The work is created on the concept of dynamics, using sound, light and shadow that allow people interact with the installation. It will bring an alternative "man and nature" novel future light experience.

Project Team
Project Artist: Ping-Chieh Hsieh
Interactive Lighting Designer: Wimonwan Wichaikhamjorn
Construction Team: Amphibious Unit x IDWPA x Pure Intergrated Design

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