An installation by James Yamada found in Central Park (NYC) commisioned by the Public Art Fund:
Built from powder coated aluminum and punctuated with 1,900 colored LED lights, Our Starry Night is a 12-foot-tall sculpture that acts as an interactive passageway to Central Park.
When visitors walk through the passageway, they trigger a metal detector hidden inside the structure's casing, which activates the LED lights on the outside of the sculpture.
The lights, the luminosity and the light patterns on the outside of the sculpture differ depending on the metal objects passing through the archway at the time. Our Starry Night is quite literally activated by the public, reinforcing the notion that art — and in particularly public art — is dependent on the people around it.
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