Frost Produkt did the Industrial design and installation coordination for Camille Norment’s artwork at Moss bus terminal, Norway.
“As a permanent interactive installation, a fractured mosaic of light and color aesthetisizes the open-air waiting area of the city of Moss's (NO) main bus terminal, enlivening the space while offering suggestive information about the proximity of busses through dynamically changing light and color.
Extruding from the dark glass surface of a pedestrian overpass is a fractured mosaic of 350 RGB light tiles whose dynamically changing colors and patterns are determined by the movement of the city busses that pass underneath. Busses' locations along their route are tracked utilizing GPS technology. The locations are abstractly mapped onto the design such that the patterns change with the nearing time of departure of the approaching busses. Enlivening the open-air waiting area of Moss’s (NO) main bus terminal, the effect of this permanent interactive
artwork is both aesthetic and informative.
The structure is more or less divided in half with some intertwined tiles in the center. The top portion represents (N)Eastbound busses, the bottom represents (S)Westbound busses. Accordingly for example, one can follow an Eastbound bus starting at 20 minutes away, from the tiles in the upper left corner as they progressively change colors heading towards the right and center endpoints of the structure. As other busses approach, they leave their own color trails on top of existing trails. Busses that have arrived at the station and are ready for departure are indicated by periodic flashing. With this visualization pattern, the quantity of tiles represents the time distance between busses; the more tiles of one color, the greater the time distance before the next approaching bus as indicated by the next color.
New visualization patterns will appear periodically.”
Photos by Frost Produkt
