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James Clar
3D Display Cube

The 3D Display Cube is a working theoretical prototype that encourages the viewer to think about the limitations current display systems and the representation of spatial data present in everyday life. To be able to recreate spatial data, everything physically present in our lives, and update them dynamically will allow us to display ideas closer to the way we envision and experience them; with depth.

The 3D Display Cube was hand built and constructed from one thousand individually controllable LEDs soldered into a 10x10x10 freestanding cube matrix. Each LED acts as one pixel in the spatial array and can be refreshed at a rate of over 60 frames per second creating a low resolution 3D television. Just like any other display unit, the Cube has an input device (serial input) that allows data to be sent to the cube to manipulate the 3D data live. The display unit can then be hooked up to a camera to allow for live video input to be displayed spatially, or to a sound module chip that can take live audio input to manipulate 3D structures, creating dynamically changing spatial light sculptures.

The newest version of the 3D Cube applications have been developed in collaboration with Josh Nimoy. Now users can import Photoshop, Aftereffects, and even 3D animation renders. Also newly developed is 100% computer throughput with serial that allows live streaming from a computer to display data directly to the Cube. This allowed for the development of 3D Pong and other games as well as realtime spatial representation of data from the internet. Now, the 3D Cube can be integrated with any other application or device to fully exploit its spatial display.

Artist Bio

James Clar

James Clar is a lighting and visual system designer working from New York and Tokyo. He completed his Masters at New York Universityís Interactive Telecommunicationís Program concentrating on visual display systems and interactive retail environments. He was a resident artist at new media collective Eyebeam Atelier of NYC as well as Benetton's Fabrica facility in Italy. His work has been shown at The New Museum of Contemporary Arts New York, The Chelsea Art Museum (New York), Museum of Photography (Tokyo), and the Milan Triennial. His pieces have been featured in numerous magazines including Shift Magazine, InDesign, Tokion, InDesign, SAL Magazine, Samsung's DigitAll, as well as being awarded the 2004 Design Distinction Award from I.D. Magazine. Amongst various awards, James Clar also holds a patent for his 3D Display Cube and writes a new media column for IdN. James is a Studio IMC Principal Lighting Designer.

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