Phyllotaxis

Daan Johan and Joris Strijbos used these repetitive, natural growth patterns as inspiration for their light machines made of spinning LEDs. When these LED strips are spinning at full speed, they generate hypnotising light patterns – not created organically, but by artificially designed systems. In this digital, automated version of an ancient natural phenomenon, an algorithm is creating new and generative forms, colours and rhythms. The artwork is a visual spectacle that explores the limit of our senses.