The Espai 13 at the Joan Miro Foundation will be starting off the Singular Electrics cycle with Lightpools, an installation by Perry Hoberman and Galeria Virtual, produced in conjunction with the Audiovisual Institute at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, and specially designed for this setting.

Lightpools is a virtual experience based on a digital system that generates in real time an environment formed by acoustic and visual elements projected on the ground in a circle, around which the participants perform. Each participant carries a paper lamp with a sensor in it, which sends information to a computer on the position and actions of the participants. The computer processes all this information. Each user has their own unique, restricted facilities for interacting with the environment and therefore has to collaborate with the other participants in order to obtain more information.

The lamp, therefore, serves both as light, space, subject and object of this virtual reality experience, and placed in this circle of light it can remind us of a ballroom.

Lightpools has been produced by the Audiovisual Institute at Pompeu Fabra
University and the Joan Miro Foundation, with the technical assistance of Compaq
Computers, S.A., Wand Wave, S.L. and Sense 8 Inc.

Perry Hoberman and Galeria Virtual (Narcis and Roc Parés) met in Barcelona during the presentation of Art Futura. The three of them work on installations using technology of all kinds, in both the creative and educational fields.