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karafuto

A couple of weeks ago I finished a beast of a project.

The interactive installation (titled InStability) is an artistic endeavor to demonstrate how seismic stations in Iceland detect earthquakes.

Visitors are invited to touch the map, triggering "earthquakes", and observe how LEDs, representing seismic and GPS stations, light up as the seismic waves propagate across Reykjanes peninsula.
7 May at 16:12 | Open on mas.to
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karafuto

The map itself and a close up of the area around Grindavik
7 May at 16:24 | Open on mas.to
karafuto

For the soundscape I used a modified recording from Earthtunes. The audio is made from actual seismic data, recorded in Grindavik last year on the 10th of November (when the town was evacuated). Here's a video so you can hear and see the installation in action:

7 May at 20:27 | Open on mas.to
karafuto

One day I'll write a long blog post about the process of making it all happen. For now, I'll just say that this installation wouldn't have happened without the phenomenal @rysiek who wrote the software for it and built the table.
Huge thanks to @tomasino and @esi as well for their help. Those guys rock!
7 May at 20:28 | Open on mas.to
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