Living Light - Seoul public art displays local air quality
Date uploaded: November 4, 2009
Living Light is a permanent piece of public art that goes beyond aesthetics, actually providing its community with useful, meaningful data. Visually resembling the map of Seoul, South Korea, networked panels on the installation reveal the real-time air quality of each neighbourhood.
The project was created by New York-based artists Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin. As the pair explain:
"Each night, the neighbourhoods light up if their air quality is better today than last year. Every 15 minutes, the map goes dark and then the neighbourhoods light up in order of best current air quality to worst".
Living Light is noteworthy for its minimal approach to information dispersal, as well as its initiative to make public art actively connect with its community, rather than simply occupying visual space.
