On the outdoor deck of Dokk1, Aarhus Central Library and citizen service center, The Ice Floes transforms a playground into an immersive media architecture experience. Ten angular, spring-mounted platforms invite visitors to step, balance, and leap between them - each movement triggering a responsive choreography of light and sound. Beneath the platforms, a network of 10 speakers and more than 7,000 individually mapped RGB LEDs forms a continuous luminous layer across the installation. Real-time motion data from accelerometers in each platform drive both the evolving soundscape and the shifting light patterns. Crystalline tones and ripples of light across the surface evoke the sensation of traversing drifting ice. At times, the atmosphere shifts into a sudden arctic storm; at others, waves of color sweep through like the aurora borealis.

The Ice Floes installation re-opened in Dec. 2024 with an added digital layer; a technical augmentation, including sensing of movement, interactive light and sound.

Now, the installation has been nominated for the Spatial Media Art award at the Media Architecture Biennale 2025 in Bangkok - MAB2025

The augmentation has been created in collaboration between Lighting Aarhus, Aarhus Kommune and CAVI.

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