Interactive Light Installation
One surface. No beginning. No end. A 4-metre kinetic light ring that embodies Möbius topology.
Interactive · Light · Steel · 2025
Möbius Light takes its form from one of geometry's most compelling paradoxes — the Möbius strip, a surface with only one side and one continuous edge. Fifty pairs of diffused RGB lightbars are mounted on a four-metre steel ring, each incrementally rotated by 3.6 degrees. Over the full circumference the accumulated twist is exactly 180 degrees — the precise amount required to produce Möbius topology.
The result is a structure that appears to transform as you move around it. What reads as vertical on one side has become horizontal by the time you complete the circle. The installation does not represent this quality — it embodies it.
"Light and darkness are not so much two opposite parts as two opposite poles of a uniform activity we call light." — Goethe's natural science tradition
Four analogue potentiometers give visitors direct, haptic control over the living quality of the light — its hue, tempo, behaviour, and memory. There is no screen, no app, no interface to learn. Only physical turning, and immediate transformation.
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Materials & Scale
| Ring diameter | 4 metres |
| Lightbar pairs | 50 × back-to-back |
| LED type | Diffused RGB addressable |
| Twist per segment | 3.6° |
| Total twist | 180° |
| Structure | Steel ring |
| Year | 2025 |
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