Resonance

Completion: 2021

Location: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Description: We find poetic beauty in two wave patterns coming together to create an entirely new pattern. In physics, interference is a phenomenon in which two waves superpose to form a resultant wave of unique characteristics. In everyday life, we see interference effects when two waves meet on the water’s surface. The same effect is seen with all types of waves: light, radio, acoustic, gravity waves, or matter waves. The resulting images or graphs are called interferograms. In Resonance, this becomes a powerful metaphor for the intersection of the fields of engineering and the humanities at the University of Illinois, where the innovations developed by the University’s pioneering faculty are envisioned as waves that reverberate throughout the world. The wall-based artwork features visual motifs distilled from specific faculty research and configured into radiating patterns that are printed onto a lenticular substrate. As viewers move by the artwork, the radiating patterns dynamically merge into one another in a moving gradient, reinforcing the active collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas between engineering and humanities at the University. 

Design Optimization/Management: METALAB

Photography: Justine Bursoni Photography