Concrete Constellations

Concrete Constellations is an interactive sculpture where viewers are invited to peer through a telescope and observe dynamic typography as it floats across the 'sky’ in the form of zodiac constellations. The telescope is used as a mediator for the spectacle, pointing at a Raspberry Pi screen mounted on the floor above. These textual constellations pay tribute to a 1950s Concrete Art method of writing tokened ‘Concrete Poetry’. More specifically, this piece is an ode to founder, Eugen Gomringer's, 1954 Manifesto, 'From Line to Constellation', in both the textual constellations’ form, as well as their delivery. These zodiac constellations are generated on Processing using JSON data from a Word Associations API and plotted across a digital solar scape.