Clouston Associates
Cycle!
Cycle! is an interactive and fun light art installation, allowing visitors to power the art work through pedalling bikes linked to generators. The memory of how harbour waters once enveloped the land where Sydney’s Circular Quay now proudly stands is evoked through a rising and falling tide of lights through the branches of a grand fig tree.
Developed by a team of Landscape Architects from Clouston with technical advice from Peter MacLean of Lighting, Art + Science, and using bicycles built by sustainability and renewable energy researchers at the University of Western Australia. CYCLE! utilises innovative low energy LED and laser technology to create an undulating sea of dancing lights.
What’s Smart?
Cycle! harnesses the power of human energy to create light and beauty, and the bikes themselves are made from recycled materials.
About the artists
Clouston Associates are landscape architects and urban designers with over 30 years’ experience of creative public realm design and public art installations. Peter MacLean of Lighting, Art + Science is one of Sydney’s foremost lighting designers with extensive public lighting experience. Inspired by the theme of 'City and Memories', these respected creative professionals have come together to create CYCLE!
Collectively, their experience includes installation of sculptures at Stanhope Estate which make reference to the site’s history as the Peel Perfection Dairy; industrial artifacts used as sculptural elements at Kelly’s Bush in Hunters Hill; site & sitescape lighting of World Expo '88 in Brisbane; lighting of Look of the Games structures in Sydney Olympic Venues; external and public domain lighting of the Entertainment Precinct and studio tour at Fox Studios, Moore Park, and Decorations for Sydney’s Bicentennial celebrations in1988.
Sponsors
Flexineon Lighting Solutions
http://flexineon.com/contactUs.cfm
All Metal Curving Specialists
20 Britton Street, Smithfield, NSW 2164
Sustainable Interactive Toys
http://www.perthsunfair.com.au/toys/index.htm
