Mauritius Seeger worked on a project that created software to produce an interactive lighting installation on the facade of the W Hotel in Leicester Square in London. The system takes in information from 8 cameras on the roof, which captures a 360 degree panorama, of the hotel. The cameras take a picture every hour and then the photo’s are analyzed by the software to determine what color is most present. Lights on the face of the hotel then project this data by shining that particular color of light. The colors are affected by the weather, season, time of day, etc… The idea of lighting the outside of a building has been done many times before, especially on our campus. Despite this, I thought this project was worth mentioning, because it is the most tasteful way that I have seen it done. I thought their idea of how to determine the color depending on the activity of the immediate surrounding area made for a great site specific work in a public area. 

W Hotel London