Random International is an art group established in 2005 and led by Hannes Koch and Florian Ortkrass. Working from a London studio, it explores relationships between people and technology through interactive installations, sculpture, light, movement and sound.
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Barbican presentation; work dated 2012
Include the water system in the visitor brief
Rain Room is dated 2012 in Random International’s project archive, which lists the Barbican among its presentations. The work uses tracking, valves and a water-management system so human presence interrupts the falling water. For a host, the compelling visitor interaction is inseparable from a substantial physical installation. Early planning should ask how the wet system, grated floor and tracking area relate to the room, and how visitor movement and operational checks would be supported throughout the day.
How would water infrastructure, tracked movement and daily operating checks fit the proposed venue?
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Permanent commission at 30 Albert Embankment, 2018
Test recognition from several approaches
Self and Other (for the Albert Embankment) is documented as a permanent 2018 work commissioned by St James and curated by Futurecity. Layers of glass and LEDs translate a visitor’s figure into light; the image changes with viewpoint and may follow movement with a delay. That makes approach direction part of the artistic experience. A public-space brief should identify where someone first notices the work, where they can pause to interact, and how surrounding pedestrian movement affects the tracking and sightlines.
From which approaches would visitors recognize the light figure and have space to stop and interact?
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Permanent sculpture at the Zayed Centre, London, 2019
Design the behavior for its institutional setting
Kinds of Life was commissioned for the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children at Great Ormond Street Hospital in 2019. The moving sculpture uses winches and custom controls, responds to its surroundings, and developed through conversations with researchers. This precedent invites a brief that considers the character of movement alongside the architecture. A hospital or research venue should describe the desired balance between surprise and calm, identify its operating team, and establish how maintenance access can coexist with everyday circulation.
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Random International is based in London, United Kingdom. Documented disciplines include interactive installation, sculpture, light art, kinetic art, sound.
