Image of the day: Television made of remote controls

Infra is an art installation made entirely from discarded remote controls.

 
The remote controls are connected by speaker wire. 

Infra's display can be seen only through infrared goggles.

Above is an image of an installation called INFRA, created by London-based artist Chris Shen. The sculptural display is made up of 625 remote controls arranged in a grid with their infrared bulbs facing outward.

To the naked eye, the television and its display are invisible. But when viewed through infrared goggles, the light becomes visible. The low-resolution matrix can broadcast moving video, with each remote bulb acting as an individual pixel, reversing the role of the remote control from a passive part of the television-watching experience to an active display.

Each of the remotes was discarded by its owners, and Shen opened, cleaned and rewired each of them by hand before installing them in the grid. The controls are numbered so that they can be removed and reinstalled. The display is controlled with a Peggy 2 light-emitting pegboard kit, and the remotes are connected with nearly a third of a mile worth of speaker wire.

The digital artwork was recently on display in London.

Story via: chrisshen.net