Lantern Field is a digitally interactive installation comprising folded mulberry paper illuminated with LED lights and daylight to create a multi-sensory space that responds to people’s presence and behavior. It creates an ephemeral place of gathering through light. The artwork integrates technology (Arduino boards controlled by MaxMSP programming) that enables people’s interaction with their environment and with each other, and is co-created in a public workshop in which the viewers also become the makers of the work. Three ultrasonic sensors placed in each of the five bays  detect the presence and activities of people and alter the light hues and sound qualities in response.

The installation is participatory on multiple levels: first, during the process of communal production; then later when people moved through the space beneath the lanterns to participate in viewing and discovering of the shifting light and sound.