Parallel Flow

On view Nov. 7–16

By Dina Fisher and David Howe  | Los Angeles, California

Parallel Flow is an interactive sound and light show. Twin arrays of colorful light tubes, one on each shore of the canal, exchange a call-and-response lightshow that continually evolves in tandem with a responsive soundscape.  

Festivalgoers contribute to the show using a handheld interactive sensor. Through exploratory bodily movement and playful gestures, participants create dynamic effects that ripple throughout the light-and-soundscapes. Nightly musical performances by Parallel Flow’s creators similarly transform the lightshow.  

At times, the two arrays explore the interplay of coordinated patterns, like a musician’s hands conversing in a counterpoint fugue. At other times, they mirror one another, brilliantly reflecting choreographies of light onto the canal.  

Conceptually, Parallel Flow is a conversation about duality and time. Algorithmic patterns symmetrize along the shores in an ever-changing energetic dance, instantiated in the arrays’ static form. Like the flow of time and water itself, patterns endlessly morph and change. 

About Dina Fisher and David Howe 

Dina Fisher is a multi-disciplined, life-long creative professional with a background in high-tech design and content creation. Working from her home studio in wild foothills near Los Angeles, she creates interactive artworks for public spaces. She recently exhibited at the Getty Center, and her large-scale art installations have been commissioned by municipalities, festivals, and private entities across the United States. With a mindful embrace of physics and cosmology, Fisher’s art often explores interconnectedness, emerging technologies, and novel use of materials. Her practice combines light, sound, and language with structural forms made from architectural materials, including urban and natural refuse.  

David Howe is an audio-visual-light artist from Los Angeles, with a fascination for art that changes over time through perspective, natural, mechanical, and digital processes. He holds a bachelor’s and master’s in music technology and art from the California Institute of the Arts. As a senior creative technologist with a top experience design firm, and with his own light art company, LightRiders, Howe has designed and contributed to impactful immersive/interactive/visually stunning installations with great clients like Netflix, Google, MTV, KCRW, Beyoncé, U2, City of Glendale, and the Los Angeles Triforium. Howe currently works on light art to brighten galleries, museums, and people's homes. 

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