It’s not everyday that you find yourself sitting alone at night in a cloud of smoke on an abandoned military airbase in the middle of nowhere writing Python code, but that is exactly where i found myself last night while setting up for the project that I am doing with my friend Stephen Spyropoulos and his brother Theodore for the Faster Than Sound festival outside of London. The project they’ve come up with is quite amazing and I was happy to lend a hand.

“Smoke Signals is based on one of the oldest forms of communication in recorded history dating back over 5,000 years. The project works as a hybrid system that explores the dynamic and spatial capacities of smoke and light in relation to contemporary mobile SMS technologies of messaging today.The project examines a dynamic real-time interaction that writes space. Smoke and light setup the condition for developing a typographic ambient / responsive environment.”

http://www.minimaforms.com/smokesignals/

Cheers!