Electronic SKY was a featured artwork in Toronto’s first Nuit Blanche 2006. An electric cloud is formed when an overhead grid of fluorescent lights responds to your movement below. On an adjacent overhead scrim, a video sky is digitally manipulated as if viewed from underwater, accompanied by sounds of the subterranean Garrison Creek.

The fluorescent lights are custom-made dimmable fixtures with a standard backyard motion detector. The fixtures are wired to a computer which generates a “digital cloud” and adjust the fluorescents accordingly. The light cloud seems to flow along with your body as you walk underneath.

The video sky is generated using custom software to compositing multiple skies, overlaying sun & moon and varying levels to generate a sky. One’s movement below ripples the view, so that you feel as if underwater.