Eric Corriel Studios

multidisciplinary art studio • immersive and interactive public art • art activism • digital/electronic art • nyc

Light Bikes

Site-specific interactive light installation, 2013

Nighttime photograph of a woman standing in the middle of a 8 inch high pool. Projected from above is a crazy multi-colored lightshow that covers her eyes in a ray of purple light while the liquid she's standing in (milk, btw) catches the purple, blue, and violet rays that fall around her.
Photo by Brett Wood

Light Bikes is the first interactive light installation to be done at a bicycle race that interacts with riders as they race Shown at the Red Hook Crit, Brooklyn, New York

Light Bikes was created for the Red Hook Crit—a highly technical, nighttime, fixed gear bicycle race that attracts top talent from all over the world. This installation projects “light lanes” onto the race track that light up as cyclists ride over them.

Nighttime, long-exposure photograph showing the “light lines” of two racing cyclists with a large crowd behind them. Onto the street on which they race is projected a linearly oriented rainbow road of colored lanes.
Photo by Brett Wood
Nighttime, long-exposure photograph showing the “light lines” of five racing cyclists with a large crowd behind them. Onto the street on which they race is projected a linearly oriented rainbow road of colored lanes
Photo by Brett Wood

I was first asked to participate in the Red Hook Crit in 2012 and for that iteration I created Bicycle Race, which is an animated abstraction of a bicycle race. As a follow up, Light Bikes removes all elements of abstraction and puts the art in direct contact with race participants. Instead of the art being about its subject, it’s now an inseparable part of it.

Nighttime, close-up photograph of a street with a thin purple lane projected on it. Riding over the purple lane is a cyclist, whose white cycling shoe is also covered in purple light.
Photo by Brett Wood
Nighttime photograph of three cyclists, one behind the other, racing on a street course. Underneath the lead cyclist’s bike is a thin, illuminated red lane.
Photo by Brett Wood
Nighttime photograph of one cyclist, seen from the side, racing on a street course. Underneath their bike is a thin, illuminated yellow lane.
Photo by Brett Wood
Nighttime photograph of four cyclists, one behind the other, racing on a street course as seen from behind. Underneath the last two cyclists’ bikes is a thin, illuminated purple lane.
Photo by Brett Wood
Small thumbnail image of Nighttime, close-up photograph of a street with a thin purple lane projected on it. Riding over the purple lane is a cyclist, whose white cycling shoe is also covered in purple light.
Small thumbnail image of Nighttime photograph of three cyclists, one behind the other, racing on a street course. Underneath the lead cyclist’s bike is a thin, illuminated red lane.
Small thumbnail image of Nighttime photograph of one cyclist, seen from the side, racing on a street course. Underneath their bike is a thin, illuminated yellow lane.
Small thumbnail image of Nighttime photograph of four cyclists, one behind the other, racing on a street course as seen from behind. Underneath the last two cyclists’ bikes is a thin, illuminated purple lane.

Light Bikes is created with custom software written by the artist in OpenFrameworks. It measures 30’ x 8’.

Nighttime photograph showing an orange racing barrier/fence that spans the full length of the frame. In front is a chair with an open laptop on a stand connected to a projector on a high tripod. In the background is an empty race course. There aren’t any people in the photograph.
Photo by Brett Wood
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