Day for Night is an art and music event in Houston, Texas that explores the deep connections between light, technology, sound, and space. The objective of the festival is to reintroduce visual art back into the musical experience on a large scale.

With the purpose of the festival in mind, we created “Outside,” an installation that explores identity and encourages people’s interaction with artificial life. The mechanical entity created for the festival responds to space via pre-programmed emotions. Each emotion expressed by the piece is expressed using light, movement, and sound, creating a collective experience that expands human connections through the potential offered by technology.

The work was part of a line-up of renowned artists, including Nine Inch Nails, Thom Yorke, Ryoji Ikeda, and Matthew Schreiber, staging the possibilities that arise at the intersection of different narrative resources and ideas.