{"id":37417,"date":"2021-02-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/professors-interactive-installation-in-rail-trail-festival\/"},"modified":"2024-06-03T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:14:54","slug":"professors-interactive-installation-in-rail-trail-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/news\/2021-02-18\/professore28099s-interactive-installation-rail-trail-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor\u2019s Interactive Installation in Rail Trail Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>An interactive installation by Assistant Professor of Architecture Rachel Dickey with architecture alumna Noushin Radnia has been chosen for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotterailtrail.org\/heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cI Heart Rail Trail: Lights 2021\u201d<\/a> festival through a competition sponsored by Charlotte Center City Partners. The festival will present five public art light installations at light rail stations in SouthEnd and will run February 19-March 7.<\/p>\n<p>Dickey\u2019s installation of \u201cCovid Confessionals\u201d is a set of circular pods, each with a radius of six feet, defined by iridescent curved walls that vary in height from four to eight feet. These curved plastic walls, supported by a metal hexagonal frame, create individual room-sized \u201cface shields\u201d that space visitors at distances of six feet or more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"drawing of Covid Confessional\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/06\/RailTrail2_web.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/684;\"><\/p>\n<p>At the center of each circular \u201cCovid Confessional,\u201d motion-sensor lighting will activate the clear plastic walls, made iridescent by a dichoric film, and illuminate a social distancing grid painted on the ground. As a passerby steps on the interactive lights, a field of light will dynamically bounce off the shields to encourage physically distanced interaction and play. Spotlights attached to the support structure will offer additional illumination.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rendering Covid Confessional\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cws.charlotte.edu\/backup-coaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/807\/2024\/06\/RailTrail1_web.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/686;\"><\/p>\n<p> \u201cCovid Confessionals\u201d was fabricated on campus in Storrs building and will be installed at the Atherton Plaza light rail stop. It is the latest of several interactive public art works by Dickey. 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