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Documented artwork / interactive mirror and light installation

Volume

SOFTlab

Commissioned by HP for Panorama Music Festival in 2017, Volume is a cube of rotating mirrored panels. Cameras follow nearby movement while addressable lights respond to sound, changing the reflections and lighting around its visitors.

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At a glance

Year / version
2017
Materials
mirrored panels, individually addressable LEDs
Documented setting
unknown
Dimensions
Not documented
Dimensions apply to
Not documented
Availability
Unconfirmed

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Installation history

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  1. 2017

    Panorama Music Festival, New York, NY

    City
    New York
    State / region
    NY
    Country
    United States (inferred; not independently confirmed)
    Event
    Panorama Music Festival
    Commissioner
    HP
    Start year
    2017

    Installation details checked 2026-09-21.

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How this work was made and presented

HP commission for Panorama Music Festival, 2017

Reflection can create a place to pause

SOFTlab built Volume for HP at the 2017 Panorama music festival in New York. One hundred independently rotating mirrors formed a reflective cube, with depth cameras tracking people and illuminated edges responding to sound. The studio describes the installation as a pause within the festival’s surrounding activity. This makes it a useful precedent for evaluating interactive art as a place of relative stillness. For another event, the spatial brief could consider where visitors can approach, stop and recognize the response without being carried along by circulation.

SOFTlab — Volume ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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Where would a reflective, responsive room offer a useful pause within the event?

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SOFTlab interaction and software development studies

Simulate visitors before testing with a crowd

SOFTlab’s Volume technical page documents an interface that could simulate people and test mirror behavior without a live Kinect input. Separate studies examined position tracking and the weighted averaging used to guide mirror orientation. These are specific examples of testing the response system before relying on an occupied installation. The planning lesson is to ask for demonstrations of both sensing and behavior: a sensor detecting several people does not by itself establish how a kinetic artwork will choose where to face or how clearly visitors will understand it.

SOFTlab — Volume technical studies ↗ · Reviewed 2026-10-10

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How will the proposed behavior be demonstrated with several simultaneous visitors?

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