Documented artwork / interactive light installation

The Pool

A field of circular platforms responds to touch with changing color. Custom code and a mesh network coordinate the light effects, creating a shared composition as visitors walk, jump, or dance across the installation.

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At a glance

Year / version: 2008
Materials: LEDs, custom electronics, custom roto-molded components
Documented setting: both
Dimensions: 50-foot overall diameter; 106 pads, each 34 inches in diameter
Dimensions apply to: Configuration specified for Aurora’s October 2024 lease; confirm dimensions for any future installation.
Availability: Unconfirmed

Places & versions

Installation history

Historical presentations. A past installation does not establish the current location or suitability for a new site.

2024
Lumenaura, Aurora, Illinois
City
Aurora
State / region
IL
Country
United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
Event
Lumenaura
Start year
2024
Date meaning
listing
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Installation source
2013
It’s Electric, CU Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado
Site
CU Art Museum
City
Boulder
State / region
CO
Country
United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
Event
It’s Electric
Start year
2013
Date meaning
listing
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
Installation source
2008
Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
City
Black Rock City
State / region
NV
Country
United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
Event
Burning Man
Start year
2008
Date meaning
listing
Installation details checked 2026-10-17.
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How this work was made and presented

Work developed in 2008; studio exhibition history through 2024

Choreography emerges from shared control

The Pool organizes circular touch-responsive platforms into a shared field rather than offering a single control point. Lewin’s custom programming and mesh network let visitors’ movements generate changing patterns together. The studio traces the work to Australian tidal pools and lists presentations including the CU Art Museum in 2013 and Lumenaura in Aurora in 2024. Those distinct contexts make it a reference for discussing how an interactive work relates to museum programming or an evening public-art event.

Jen Lewin Studio — The Pool ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

For your project brief

How many people can participate in the proposed layout, and how will non-participating visitors move around and view it?

Big Art Partners planning prompt

Aurora, Illinois, 2024 festival lease

A documented municipal lease package

Aurora’s passed January 2024 resolution authorized The Pool for its October 4–November 1, 2024 light festival. The record describes 106 pads in a 50-foot-diameter installation and a $98,000 package covering the lease, licenses, service, estimated shipping, installation and dismantling staff, and staff travel. This is a useful historical example of how a municipality documented scope beyond an artwork rental fee. It is not a current price, quote or promise of identical terms elsewhere.

City of Aurora — passed resolution 23-1045 ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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Which costs in a new proposal cover freight, technical service, labor, travel, local equipment and restoration of the site?

Big Art Partners planning prompt

Interactive art installations ↗Light art installations ↗Art documented at Burning Man ↗