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# Collective Moods Transformed into a Rhapsody of Light
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/collective-moods-transformed-into-a-rhapsody-of-light/
- Published: 2013-07-26T01:17:09.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:48:38.000Z
- Description: Artist Jennifer Wen Ma and lighting designer Zheng Jianwe have collaborated to create "Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light" at Beijing's famed Water Cube aquatic center.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:59 (2012, 2013, part 2)

Artist Jennifer Wen Ma and lighting designer Zheng Jianwe have collaborated to create “[Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/jennifer-wen-mas-nature-and-man-in-rhapsody-of-light-at-the-water-cube?ref=hyperallergic.com)” at Beijing’s famed Water Cube aquatic center. Their work translates the [I Ching](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%5FChing?ref=hyperallergic.com) and the mood of the Chinese people (as scrapped from microblogging tools like Weibo) into a real-time light show on the building’s distinctive exterior. It is mesmerizing to watch the membrane of the building glow and it reminds me of another interactive art installation, “[Fühlometer](http://hyperallergic.com/42899/fuhlometer-emoticons/)” (Monumental Interactive Smiley) by Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus, and Richard Wilhelmer, which translated a city’s mood into one monumental communal emoticon. While “[Fühlometer](http://hyperallergic.com/42899/fuhlometer-emoticons/)” used cameras to detect the facial expressions of inhabitants and used that to generate the appropriate image, “Nature and Man…” turns to social media as a barometer of the collective consciousness.