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// from 18th March to 9th April 2016 >> Birikú Sistema + Daniel Pérez

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We give a quota of power over the course of our life to luck, to a kind of incorporeal entity that knows the possibilities and determines whether the fruit of our actions will have a positive or negative result. We like to play with it, put it to the test, believe that it is on our side and that it will favor us. We also hide behind it to avoid assuming responsibility or to surround ourselves with a halo of false modesty when pronouncing the phrase “it was a stroke of bad / good luck”. However, we do not stop assuming that destiny is predetermined and that there is a limited combination of possibilities for actions and events, determined causally. In fact, numerological or methodological superstitions make us believe that we can manipulate chance and that in this way we will increase our chances of success.

ALEA is a random-linked light choreography whose content is determined by the 8 spectators who enter each 10-minute pass. The die that is given to each of the participants at their entrance will be the one that determines, according to their order of entry, the scenes that will make up the assembly of that pass. The possibilities granted by a six-sided die and a maximum of 8 spectators per pass is 1,679,616 of different combinations, allowing a spectator to see it many times without repeating it exactly the same; so that although the conditions of possibility are limited, a game of chance that is difficult to calculate is in effect.

Technically ALEA consists of a projection, using the mapping technique, on a structure of a six-sided pyramid creating the illusion of a cube in isometric perspective. At each of the vertices of this hexagon there is a strip of 12 RGB LEDs that light up individually, connected to an Arduino board with a DMX shield that controls them individually.

ALEA is a lighting installation created by Birikú Sistema with the collaboration of Daniel Pérez Pierna in the creation of visual content.

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