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Can you tell us more about the Blue Rider initiative in China? It’s aesthetically attractive and very intriguing. It’s also difficult to separate analog and digital—what this purposely made?
The Blue Rider project has a very clear objective—we wanted to free our work from the gallery and show it to people. It’s a project about mobility. We’ve had the idea for a while and the Shanghai World Expo was a fantastic opportunity. The idea was to travel across China on an electric scooter with special lights. The vehicle was equipped with EL technology. It’s basically a very thin type of material (about 1mm wide) that switches on using an anode and a cathode. We didn’t use any computers but simple electronics. It was impressive to see that the illuminated Blue Rider was being filmed by hundreds of passersby on their mobile telephones. Many were curious as to how the whole thing functioned. It simply was a three position switch under the handle bar: ON, OFF and BLINK. We’re currently working on a 2012 journey for the Blue Rider—this time across France and Europe.

Read the full interview of Visual System: 

http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/blog/visual-systems-evolving-urban-environment

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