The Moebius display, by Martin Bonadeo, is a simple LED (light emitting diode) screen that has a spatial and conceptual modification. Instead of being flat, it is shaped like a moebius stripe, a 3D representation of the infinite and as such is probably one of the first non-Euclidean space developed as an output for a computer. The idea of looking at an image or a word moving in a one sided three dimensional object expresses ambiguity.

“This project started as an art installation in 2004 while I was as a visiting scholar at UCLA,” Bonadeo explained me when i asked him if he had heard of Vital Signs, a similar project envisioned by nArchitects. “A year later I received a grant from Telefonica Foundation to develop this project. During 2005 I saw the posting from nArchitects in an architecture weblog, I contacted them but they told me that was only a project and they never developped it.”

It took Bonadeo 2 years of work. Although he worked with engineers, archietects, and contacted many other specialists to discuss technical issues, it wasn’t until he got another support from OSRAM this year that managed to finish it and to show it.

The next step in the development of this project include a change of scale (20 times bigger) and the inclusion of full color LED pixels.
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