Super Ball is a large scale balloon installation I was working on together with Jenna Sutela and Martti Kalliala based on their concept. Their initial idea was to animate a super sized balloon taking three giant leaps in the night sky. Installation was made for Coachella festival 2008. However, hostile wind conditions at the location made the implementation of the original concept impossible and Jenna and Martti cleverly refactored the installation into Super Cluster. I´m hoping that in the future the installation can be displayed in the Super Ball form, which it was designed for.

Super Ball comprises of an Arduino powered Animator Unit that is controlling a network of 49 1-Wire LED-units, each attached to a balloon. Each balloon corresponds to a one frame of the whole 49 frame animation. I was responsible of building and programming The Animator Unit.

Video and images © 2008 Jenna Sutela