Soma Holiday
Soma Holiday is a freelance software engineer, LED artist, creative coder, and educator.
I also cook, dance, write, and occasionally refer to myself in third person.
I'm motivated by magic: the magic of a new ability learned, of a new skill exercised, of a new connection formed.
Drop me a line. Let's make magic.
Tycho
in collaboration with Thomas Heidtmann and Jemma Woolmore
Gallery
Opening:
Lacuna Lab : Activation
Spektrum
Berlin
22 April 2016
Tycho
is an interactive object that mimics the shape and behaviour
of the James Webb Space Telescope by capturing light with a
sensor and transmitting its colour via LEDs to a mirrored
hexagonal surface, where it modulates a projection sequence
inspired by images of the birth and death of stars.
By
creating a cycle of sensory input and output, the line between
the observer and the observed blurs, and a question emerges:
who is the true viewer?
Augenlicht
Gallery Opening:
The IT Show
Kunstquartier Bethanien
Berlin
5 December 2014
"Augenlicht" is an archaic German word for eyesight, literally
"eye light". Obviously the eye does not emit actual rays of
light, yet the act of visual perception--particularly of shape
and colour--is more than a passive, mechanical reaction to
stimuli. Human sight consists of an interplay so
physiologically and psychologically complex that one could say
it is through the "eye's light" that the world is lit,
grasped, and understood.
Viewers are invited to interact with the mirrored wall-hanging
sculpture via an infrared hand sensor on a pedestal in front
of the piece.
Storage Space
in collaboration with Orlagh O'Brien
Gallery Opening:
Responsive Space
Urban Spree
Berlin
25 July 2014
By monitoring two infrared LEDs in the cabinet door, we can
detect how far open the door is. Using this information, we
display a different memory scene each time the door is closed.
The audio of each scene is also modulated by the door, though
this effect is not apparent in this silent footage.
The laptop controlling this piece was stolen from the gallery
opening night, rendering the software itself a performance: it
exists only in memory now.
Whispering Cloud
Gallery Opening:
Inter{FACE}
Spektrum
Berlin
12 August 2015
An array of 105 LEDs installed
inside a cloud of dodecahedrons, with a microphone hanging
down.
Final project by
Gabriel dos Santos
at the School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe, for
which I was technical advisor.