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INTERACTIVE EXCHANGES BETWEEN ART AND VIEWER
The second largest groups of clients are developers of large, master planned developments, such as MTR – the Mass Transit Railway Corporation in Hong Kong, or large corporations, such as RBI in Russia, or Royal Caribbean Cruise Line in the USA.
The third group of Ralfonso’s clients are universities such as Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook in New York, Tsinghua University in Beijing, or NHL University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, where he is now developing a new internet & smart phone interactive light sculpture called EX STRATA III that will connect with the EX STRATA at Tsinghua University. In most of these co- operations, Ralfonso develops the art and interactive electronics, such as Smart Phone Apps, Internet & Webcam connections, together with student teams.
Lastly he is starting to design much smaller sculptures, in the 60cm to 3m range, for a few private clients who have commissioned him to gardens or homes.
Ralfonso notes that future projects which he is currently discussing with large developers involve more of a need for a master-planned strategic approach, to provide an overall art plan for novel and never before seen interactive art experiences
for the visitors, residents, or tenants of their large developments.
This calls much more for an overall curatorial and art master planning approach than the design of a single piece. As president of the KAO, Kinetic Art Organization, Ralfonso knows most of the artists around the world that do this kind of contemporary kinetic and interactive art, so it is a great pleasure to be able to help create a thematic and harmonious approach to the art pieces in a development, rather than the piecemeal approach so often seen.
As an artist, his goal is to push the envelope of interactive and dynamic public art, whether with sculptures that connect universities and cities via interactive art, or by creating visual and audio feedback loops between the art and the viewer.
In order to explore this “bleeding edge” in design, materials and possibilities, Ralfonso has worked with students at various technical universities, such as ETH and EPFL in Switzerland, and NHL in the Netherland. And he just recently taught a graduate course at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He says, “I really would like to have much more student cooperation for projects, as it is a wonderful learning experience and adventure of exploration and discovery!”
Qube Tower - Changchun
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