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Client: Locomotion - The National Railway Museum at Shildon
Artist: Peter Freeman
Date: September 2004
A
major work for the first national museum to be built in
the Northeast. Light Engine is a 6 meter high, six-sided
mirror stainless steel column with lines and circles of
RGB LEDs.
It is interactive and has different sequences
of lights, which can be triggered by text messages. The
message commands are based on engine names which Timothy
Hackworth built – Locomotion, Globe, Sans Pareil,
Magnet, Arrow, Shildon.
The
work uses new technology and digital communications to echo
the importance of the railways for communication when they
were developed as a national network.