Tycho is an interactive object that mimics the shape and behaviour of the James Webb Space Telescope by capturing light with a sensor and transmitting its colour via LEDs to a mirrored hexagonal surface, where it modulates a projection sequence inspired by images of the birth and death of stars.
The piece is a collaboration between Thomas Heidtmann, Soma Holiday & Jemma Woolmore started in 2016.
Filmed and edited by Peter Kolski in Spektrum art | science | community, Berlin.
Running on ofxPiMapper by Krisjanis Rijnieks.