<div style="clear:both;"></div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 8px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1267/532092605_7c4cfd67f4_o.jpg" width="400" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: A glimpse of London's <a href="http://www.aaschool.net/lighthive/"target="_blank"><i>LightHive</i></a>, by <a href="http://www.m-cult.org/performingplaces/presenters/haw.htm"target="_blank">Alex Haw</a>, on display last week].</small><br /><br />An installation called the <a href="http://www.aaschool.net/lighthive/"target="_blank"><i>LightHive</i></a> closed last week at the Architectural Association in London. Designed by architect, actor, theorist, and writer <a href="http://www.m-cult.org/performingplaces/presenters/haw.htm"target="_blank">Alex Haw</a>, the hive functioned as a new form of "<a href="http://aalog.net/?cat=12"target="_blank">luminous architectural surveillance</a>," somewhere between sculpture, optical device, and high-end interior decoration -- an <i>immersive chandelier</i>, if you will. According to the UK-based <a href="http://www.artshub.co.uk/uk/news.asp?sId=158989&ref=admin"target="_blank"><i>ArtsHub</i></a>, Haw's <i>LightHive</i> "pushes <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit_television"target="_blank">CCTV</a> into another dimension." <br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 8px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/532134827_163e36a005_o.jpg" width="400" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Preliminary point-cloud study for the <a href="http://www.aaschool.net/lighthive/"target="_blank"><i>LightHive</i></a>, executed by <a href="http://www.theverymany.net/labels/Alex%20Haw.html"target="_blank">Marc Fornes</a>].</small><br /><br />Specifically, the hive consists of "a surveillance network" -- connected to nearly 7.5km of LED wiring -- that "records the movement of people through the building" (where "the building" is London's Architectural Association in Bedford Square). <br />The <i>LightHive</i> then "transmutes the energy into bursts of light, which create an 'immersive form of 3d CCTV'."<br /><br /><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 8px; text-align:center;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1337/532132103_e3d8450698_o.jpg" width="400" border="0" alt="" /><small>[Image: Glimpse of the <i>LightHive</i>, an indoor constellation aware of those who view it. ... A lot more <a href="http://aalog.net/?cat=12"target="_blank">here</a>].</small><br /><br />From a <a href="http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/default.aspx?entryId=706&section=eventsArchive"target="_blank">description</a> of the exhibition:<ul>The space thus operates like a 3D X-ray of the building's activity, a kind of constantly updating surround-light CCTV, a spatial model of the entire School's performance fluctuating over the course of hours, days and weeks.</ul><p>[More....]