Lighting up the future of fashion
With 15,000 individually addressable optical fibers totalling more than 40 miles in combined length an interactive art installation, called the Cloud, was quite a spectacle at this year’s Pitti Uomo fashion show in Italy.Standing over six and a half feet high, the Cloud is actually an organic sculptural landmark constructed from carbon glass that responds to human interaction.
It is capable of detecting presence and engaging with users through its multi-fiber touch interface which provokes a variety of responses from the cloud, ranging from ambient lighting to animation and sound.
According to its creators, the shape of the Cloud originates from a plastic movement in space that is frozen in time, a still image capturing an instant of a volume in motion. The Cloud’s form is continuous, soft and curvaceous.
“Technology changes how we look at and interact with the world and we are committed to helping businesses and organizations change the way they engage and interact with people,” said Federico Casalengo, director of the MIT Mobile Design Lab, who heads up the research project.
The Cloud is located in downtown Florence outside the Fortezza da Basso and has been financially supported by the Tuscan Regional Government.
