FLOWER MEADOW

The extraordinary flexibility of bendable LG OLED-screens had to be showcased in a way that had never been seen before. As a result, iart developed the idea of mechanically moving screen sculptures in the form of petals. In collaboration with MKTengineering, a first prototype including a sophisticated mechanical substructure was developed. The electro-mechanical challenge was to engineer a very thin bending mechanism and to design a mechanical system that allows all the petals to bend in conjunction with a combined tilting and rotating motion - all controlled by just one drive.

After successful trial runs, four more flowers were built. The kinetic installation has been on show in the exhibition "LUX: A New Wave of Contemporary Art" in London.