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With the support of the Scottsdale Mall, 7373 E. 2nd Street, the Scottsdale Public Art program provides an opportunity for artists to alter the and enhance the bell tower, a key entry point to the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall. The Belle Art installations create unexpected experiences, a reason to linger and to return.

The first cycle of installations completes late this summer, but Cycle 2 will begin shortly after that. Stay tuned for details.

Current Installation:

Photo Luminescent Sound Garden

Todd Ingalls and Mary Neubauer
February 12, 2010-September 6, 2010

Todd Ingalls and Mary Neubauer join to create a suspended garden responsive to human motion—intertwining music, light and form.  Six translucent layered forms with a photo-luminescent surface absorb sunlight and emit a glow at night,  echoing night-blooming desert flowers. Pedestrians activate additional illuminations and soft bell-like tones, moving the space from contemplative to active.

Each sculpture has over fifty layers of laser cut photo-luminescent material and edge-glow plastic mounted on light tubes. The tubes diffuse LED strip lighting that responds in a lively random sequence to passing pedestrians, which then ramps down to a low illumination mode if no motion is detected after twenty minutes. Simultaneous to responsive lighting, motion also notifies an audio sequence – sounding like electronically altered bells in the distance.

Media Composer Todd Ingalls, on faculty at the Arizona State University School of Arts, Media and Engineering, works in mediums of interactive performance and installations, developing computer generated music and modeling sonic environments. Ingalls’ research focuses on gestural communication as well as biofeedback for rehabilitation.

Artist Mary Neubauer, on faculty at the Arizona State University Sculpture Department, creates sculpture, digital prints and other prototype animations that focus on hidden aspects of our surroundings, including data streams of environmental and human cycles. Expanding the definition of sculpture, Neubauer works to reveal long-term patterns in global phenomena, enhance sensitivity of invisible structures, and contribute understanding through attributes of organizations and environments.

For more about the artists
http://www.public.asu.edu/~mbates/
http://ame2.asu.edu/faculty/todd/

View Previous Belle Art Installations