Paint splatter

The simplest way to describe Paint Splatter is that it’s a giant shared digital canvas made out of Harpa’s huge led façade. Anyone with access to internet can interact with this canvas by splashing virtual paint on it which then drips straight down or sideways depending on wind direction and force.

Being a shared canvas, paint splatter also serves as a super simple social media platform where splatting these multi coloured dots is the only way to communicate.

Paint Splatter was the winning submission to a competition held by Studio Olafur Eliasson and the City of Reykjavik for an opening piece on Reykjavik’s Winter Lights Festival in 2016.

Collaborator

Halldór Eldjárn