Collaboration with Candice Greathouse.Ģ016 I FUCKING L*** YOU TOO, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GAĢ006 Systems of Control, Roswell Visual Arts Center, Roswell, GAĢ020 Art-in-Place, Terrain Exhibitions and CNL Projects, Los Angeles, CAĢ017 WORK, Formations Studio, Atlanta, GAĢ017 The Game Show, Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens, GAĢ016 Elegant Simplicity, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, ORĢ016 Lightweight, The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GAĢ016 Scenes of Disproportion, 368 PONCE, Atlanta, GA. Collaboration with Candice Greathouse.Ģ014 weak hand, DOUBLE | DATE with Kojo Griffin, MINT, Atlanta, GAĢ014 unfictional, Ernest G. Zane Cochran is an interaction designer and professor of Creative Technologies at Berry College and holds a PhD in Human Centered Computing from Georgia Tech.2014 MFA, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GAĢ002 BFA, University of Georgia, Athens, GAĢ019 less than more, Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GAĢ019 It Could Happen to You, Booth Gallery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO. The visualizations play out on custom circuit boards that contain 30 smart LEDs, each capable of producing over 16 million different colors. ![]() I then developed another piece of software called AuroraDatea, which allowed me to analyze the prominent colors of images from NASA’s Aurora Image Gallery, and create light visualizations inside each lamp that mimic the source image. Each design was then flattened and laser cut and scored into 100lb bristol paper and reassembled into its original design. Thus, the geometry of each lamp is directly influenced by the natural event itself. To process this data, I created a software program called PolyLamp, which allowed me to visualize the data and create origami-style lamps where various features such as the number of faces, height, width, and twist of the lamp was determined algorithmically. The form of the lamps was directly derived from data collected by the ACE satellite describing the intensity of the forces creating these events. The installation features 40 uniquely designed lamps that each have a distinct light display that mimics a significant Northern or Southern Lights event. It is with two resources that I was able to create Aurora - an interactive art installation that fuses the beauty of this phenomena with the scientific data that describes its origin. In an attempt to curate this effect, NASA undertook an effort to create a collection of images in its Aurora Image Gallery, which combines photos from arctic research stations, local photographers, and even astronauts aboard the International Space Station. This natural light display is a boon for landscape photographers, as such a stunning sight can usually only be found in the furthest reaches of the wilderness. These solar winds, which most often result from solar plasma and magnetic fields from the sun, excite Earth’s own magnetic field, causing ribbons of light in the upper atmosphere around its poles. The ACE satellite orbits around Earth's North and South Poles at a distance of 1.5 million kilometers, where it captures information about solar wind, which is the primary contributing factor to the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) and Aurora Australis (Southern Lights). Wanting to understand this phenomenon more, I discovered two incredible resources - a database of scientific data collected by NASA’s ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) satellite, and a collection of public-domain images of various aurora events published by NASA. This natural display of beauty has bewildered mankind for centuries, and continues to capture the imaginations of artists and scientists alike. After completing NORGE, a book of photography I created from my trips to Norway, I began a fascination with the phenomenon of the Aurora Borealis. ![]() ![]() That journey has taken me through a spectrum of explorations of algorithms, electronics, design, and color theory, and has left me at an intersection where the Aurora project emerged. For some time I have embarked on a journey to merge two seemingly dissimilar fields: art and technology.
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