D. A. Therrien
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Suspended 65 metres in the air between the Viljo Revell-designed Toronto City Hall towers, the four
7m square alphanumeric quartz lamp arrays will display codes, DNA sequences and elemental words.
With each of the four "characters" consisting of 16 light segments, the machine is capable of
displaying nearly 4.94 billion distinct graphic combinations, facilitating the expression of any word in any language. Automated code sequences will run between live performance times
Since 1984, D.A. Therrien has been creating large-scale spectacles as rituals of technology
utilizing machines, computers, information displays, high intensity light, robotics and
live electricity in complex interactions with human performers/operators. His performances
in Europe, Asia and North America address man's relationship to political and religious
systems, medical technology, surveillance, information systems and other 20th and 21st
century technologies that are now pervasive in everyday life.
D.A. Therrien, Beautiful Light: 4 LETTER WORD MACHINE (mock-up), 2009,
quartz light, electricity, switching systems, human performers
photography: CGI: Dayvid LeMmon
Beautiful Light: 4 LETTER WORD MACHINE, 2009
Light Installation
[ selected photographs ]
[ video ]
A0- Toronto City Hall, Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen Street West
www.beautifullight.org
Suitable for all ages
In association with Scottsdale Public Art, 4LWM
sound design: waveformanalogueresearch
Supported by:
  
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