The Migrants Installation

The Migrants Presented by Hyphen Hub

This light installation is based on a real bird-migration history from 2014. The Golden Warbler birds faced adverse conditions due to global warming that generated storms on the coasts of Florida, which were their main destination. This caused the birds to alter their migratory routes, being forced to explore an alternative way through Mexico and Central America until arriving in Colombia.

Understanding the implications of migration has to do with understanding that the bird, in its journey, is a seed disperser, a forest weaver. The bird recovers and feeds ecological niches. This migration story serves as a contrast to think about the complexity of migrations and massive displacements in the human sphere, whose motives involve climatic, industrial, political and technical causes of the contemporary form, but also are displacements in which cultural and communal fabrics are produced.

Rethinking the relationships between technology, animal worlds and culture through art generates the possibility of imagining new scenarios and alternative atmospheres where biodiversity as a production of difference from nature recovers its power in a gesture of resistance to our current global scenario.

This light installation is a matrix of 256 kinetic lights (with movement and intensity changes) that move like a flock of birds during a migratory process.

Individual dimensions: 28x28x49cm / 11”x11”x19,3” weight: 8kg / 18lb load on cable: Max 3kg / 7lb acc. to BGV C1/DGUV17 cable length: 8m / 26ft lifting height: 7m / 23ft lifting speed: Max 0,6 m per sec / max 2 ft per sec. power supply: 100V-240V AC, 50-60 Hz, 1,3A/240V 2,6A/115V power on cable: 4 channels, var. 1-24V DC, 0,65A per ch.

LED control: RGB control: DMX512 (bidirectional) / 16 channels connection: DMX 5-pin (all active), daisy chain mount: truss clamp ø48-51mm ø1,85-2,00”

The installation is made using Kinetic Lights

Important note: the installation can be collected when it is not on, the lights are automatically collected

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