Flatsun by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has created an installation with 60,000 LEDs that mimics the surface of the sun.
His artwork Flatsun imitates the solar flares and turbulance on the planet’s surface with red and yellow LEDs.
Flatsun is a large circular panel, measuring 4.5 feet in diameter, with an interactive display that responds to the amount of movement around it. Flatsun’s ‘solar flares’ become more turbulant when there are many people near the artwork but with fewer people nearby, the installation’s flares die down and can switch off completely.
The artist used mathematical equations to try to replicate the surface of the sun. Flatsun has a built-in computer, a pinhole lens camera and an aluminium, steel and glass structure.
The Mexican-Canadian artist’s work was exhibited at New York’s Bitforms gallery last autumn.
