"The Savant Guard" (2006) by Christina Ulke and Ashok Sukumaran

DESCRIPTION: wood ticket booth installation with an interactive lighting component, consisting of:

  • approx. 6-foot high wood booth structure with 4 inset glass panels

  • 13½-foot by 7½-foot metal pole

  • two 3½-foot diameter disk


This installation was designed as interactive: a sun reflector at the edge of the site was designed to provide changing light and color on the south face of the booth in response to the interruption of the light beam by passing pedestrians.
As of 2015 this interactive element appeared to be missing or inoperative.
LOCATION: 141 S. Hudson Avenue, Pasadena, California, USA