transitlab

Greyworld investigates impacting the greyzones, the zones of non-function or between functions, liminal space.

One of their first works was to tune railings to make the tune “girl from ipanema” when one struck it with a stick.
Another work took over the pedestrian bridge across the liffey bridge, mounting friction sensors in the surface so as people walked across it triggered sounds.
A central tenet is that the work is for the public, and it must be legible to the public. There should not need to be a piece of text to explain it. In fact this led Andrew to realise he was being an inverted snob, by refusing to put a bit of text for those that actually wanted to understand the technology.
The artworks are unlocked by play, so it is usually children that work it out first. Technology does not lead their work, it is the idea. They are getting away from the new material fantasy, but they are not low-tech, they will push the technology to realise the idea.
Greyworld is based around a small studio of four full-time workers and intentionally small. For Andrew, the  issue of growing too much is the work becomes managing people rather than projects. Its his life and he wants to work with his clever/smart friends. The idea is that they can do outside work, as long as they do it onsite. This means they are ready for it when an interesting phonecall comes through.