Birds fly around with you – Masamichi Shimada (2016)

For the 2016 Let’s Gro inspiration festival, the CBK brought the interactive light sculpture Birds fly around with you by Japanese designer Masamichi Shimada to the city. The work, which was on display at the Vismarkt during the festival, is based on the zoetrope, the forerunner of cinema, and one of the first animation devices with which moving images can be viewed. During the festival, you could go into the garden on the Vismarkt and set the magic machine in motion. One by one, the birds lit up and gave the illusion of flying. The more visitors came to the garden, the more birds flew…