Ministry of Awe – Instruments.

We imagined what scientific instruments would look like in an alternative future when we might send messages into the heavens through speech, touch, movement, and sight.

We’d never really thought of ourselves as artists, but we’ve always loved that art allows for boundless speculation.

In business, you strive for products that are overtly obvious. But these interactive sculptures are intended to be minor mysteries, even a bit bizarre, ones that need a bit of experimentation in order to discover what they do.

Historically, many important technologies began as strange, unclear, even seemingly excessive objects. These interactive sculptures let visitors at the Ministry of Awe change a mural of The Heavens through such exploration, and hopefully to do so with each other.

They are each embedded with electronics, sensors, microcontrollers, and computers running Procession, all networked with each other.