Untitled	By Michael Rodemer and Tim McKay

This work began with discussions between the collaborators about how best to represent the theory that masses at the sub-atomic level appear to exhibit an "oscillatory" energy analogous to a vibrating guitar string. The result: a 5-foot long glowing luminescent fibre driven by a motor in such a way that waves are formed along its length. A microcontroller coupled to an ultrasonic sensor interactively controls the number and amplitude of these waves, depending on viewers' proximity to the artwork. Because the light of the fibre is actually pulsing 400 times a second, the waves appear as bright outlines with hundreds of fainter, fine splines: shifting diaphanous strings of energy in space. With thanks to Warren Smith and Mark Kennedy of the Physics Demonstration Laboratory who built the piece. Michael Rodemer is an Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Design and a former Fulbright Senior scholar working in interactive computer arts. His work has been shown nationally and internationally including exhibitions at ArtWare, Germany; Uludag University, Turkey; the Indianapolis Art Center and the Art and Industry Art Festival near Berlin. Tim McKay is an astrophysicist in the Department of Physics. McKay is trying to understand the relationship between the jewel-like galaxies we see in the sky and the invisible dark matter and energy which dominate the evolution of the universe. Dark matter reveals its presence to McKay's research group by subtlely distorting the images of distant galaxies. [an error occurred while processing this directive]