This Huge New LED Wall Creates a Constantly Changing Portrait of Los Angeles
435,200 LED lights, live feeds and historical data converge in new DTLA piece, ConvergenceLA
Refik Anadol (MFA '14) teamed up with Susan Narduli to create a 100-foot piece that shifts and changes with the city, processing data in real time and presenting it back in this new shape.
"If you’ve been downtown recently, you’ve likely noticed Greenland USA’s massive Metropolis towers going up on Francisco Street. But you may not have seen the 100-foot-wide LED wall that’s been built along the exterior of one of the buildings.The piece—titled ConvergenceLA—was created by Susan Narduli and Refik Anadol and uses historical and live data from various sources (including RSS feeds, weather activity, and transportation information) to create a living portrait of the city. It contains 435,200 LED lights and took more than 20,000 hours of work over the past three years.
'We developed custom software which takes in this data—what’s happening in the city—and, depending on the data, gives it back to the city in this new form,” says Narduli. “It’s layered with three years of documentation of the city as well.'"— Julia Herbst, Mar. 2, 2017
Read the full article at the Los Angeles Magazine website.