MonoLith / Stela

Monolith rises 100ft directly into the air from the playa, glowing gently as colors undulate and change across its surface. The tower is 35ft wide and 45ft long with a rigid base, built on a modified crane structure covered with tens of thousands of yards of white ripstop nylon. This piece has four controller stations that allow participants to paint the canvas, changing the color and movement of the patterns of light on the tower.

At night, the tower comes alive, lit from the interior with LED lights, full color lasers and projected images. Patterns and movement will repeat and slowly fade away as new ones are introduced. Multiple points of interactivity allow participants to manage separate parts of the tower's light. Action on one side of the tower will influence what happens in the others. Through the collaborative efforts of the participants at the different controls, MONOLITH will come alive, and create undulating patterns of light, color, and movement that is constantly regenerating and reverberating, and always unique.

Video projectors at the base of the tower will create an additional point of interactivity, as controls can be manipulated to created animated movement that are mapped on to the structure, originating from the desert floor. Colored shapes sweep across the canvas. Vines start to grow up the side of the tower. The result is a magnificent cooperative installation, constantly changing, and reflecting the whim of the people-- impermanent and ever changing.