Interactive Mood Lanterns – A touring artwork by illuminart

Tap a lantern’s pendant to change its illumination colour to suit your mood. Each lantern contains tiny button in the tip of its pendant, if you click it, the light will react with sparkles and then change to a new ‘mood’.

These beautiful lanterns can run off regular power or batteries, can be displayed in clusters or on their own, and are ideal to enhance or create a sensory space.

Interact with a group of lanterns, to shift the mood lighting for a space to a spectrum and pattern that pleases you.  The moods include Rainbows, Autumn leaves, Winter Fireplace, Stop sign in the rain, and Dew on the Grass.

The interactive mood lanterns were initially created in workshops led by illuminart, involving collaboration between SA and NSW textile artists and electronic makers, and have grown through further creation of lanterns by team members.

The ever growing number of lanterns use salvaged fabrics and recycled plastics, and the interactive electronics incorporate arduino, LED and piezo microphones. The Lanterns look beautiful both night and day and shift through different colour light patterns as people interact with them.

Each unique lantern expresses the artist’s choices of material and fabrication, and your choice of mood. Build your own lantern and be part of a movement that combines salvage, illumination and DIY technology.

• Cindi Drennan Project Director / Lantern Designer
• Trevor Collict Electronic Design
• Rowan Lee Electronic Support
• Sammi Lane Electronic Support
• Kathryn Sproul Pattern Design
• Lorraine Marter Textile Design
• Danica Mclean Textile Design
• Liz Wauchope Textile Design
• Christine Wiltshier Textile Design