Falling Light, a new work commissioned by Swarovski will be exhibited at Swarovski Crystal Palace at this years Design Miami.

'Falling Light' is an installation, consisting of 50 ceiling suspended mechanical devices each incorporating a custom cut Swarovski crystal optical lens, a computer programmed motor and a white LED.

'The armatures rise in syncopation by rotating cam before gravity releases them earthward, activating the LED to move away, closer to the crystal lens. The lens acts as a prism, transforming through diffraction, the LED’s white light into a rainbow myriad, in turn creating the rhythmical ebb and flow of the floor-strewn droplets.' (Suzanne Trocmé) Sight and sound converge in the space, demanding that viewers play the role of participants.

For ‘Falling Light’ we chose to work with the intrinsic qualities of Swarovski Crystal optical lenses and their ability to achieve the most precise and pure rainbow halo; in a way, we reduced the use of the crystals to their essence, their bare optical properties… The magic of crystals and their extreme transparency allowed us to bend our visual world, which is key to Falling Light.

'Falling Light', on view - 1.–5. December, 12 - 8pm, Swarovski Crystal Palace

Meridian Avenue & 19th Street
Miami Beach Convention Center P-Lot, Miami Beach

Designer Talk: Suzanne Trocmé in conversation with Troika, 2. December 2010, 3-4pm Assouline Culture Lounge

The Art Institute of Chicago will open Hyperlinks, a major exhibition highlighting important recent developments that have resulted from the intersection of architecture and design. Troika will be on show with Plant Fiction, a new work displaying five scenarios, each formed around a fictitious plant species that is placed on location in a London of the near-future.

Hyperlinks: Architecture And Design — on view December 11, 2010 through July 20, 2011, in Galleries 283–285 — presents more than 30 proposals and ideas from an international group of architects, artists and designers, including Florencia Pita/mod, Jurgen Mayer H., R&Sie(n), Experimental Jetset, Emergent/Tom Wiscombe, Arik
Levy, Studio Makkink & Bey, Shigeru Ban, Joris Laarman, Nacho Carbonell, and Matali Crasset. 

'Hyperlinks' suggests a new paradigm shift that is occurring across the creative fields. It highlights how typological boundaries are crossed and how they are resulting in a diverse range of transdisciplinary practices. The ten hyperlinks that define the projects that are included Hyper-Active; Hyper-Digital; Hyper-Dimensional; Hyper-Functional; Hyper-Narrative; Hyper-Hardwired; Hyper-Mobile; Hyper-Real; Hyper-Social; Hyper-Sustainable, and illustrate the myriad ways in which architects and designers are probing beyond the confines of their fields in an effort to provide innovative solutions that are transforming our object and built landscape.

Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design
The Art Institute of Chicago
11 December 2010 - 20 July 2011
Galleries 283–285

The Contemporary Art Society presents Outer Worlds, an exhibition that reflects upon the shifting perception of the 'world'. On display is Troika's new work Still Life With Timer. an installation for the Electroprobe, a magnetic microphone that uncovers a parallel 'world' and allows us to explore our relation to what we otherwise perceive as inanimate objects.

Other artists include Ruth Blesi, Paul Fryer, Simon Hollington, Guy Allott, Heather and Ivan Morrison, Walker and Bromwich, Genevieve Biwer, Cornelia Parker, Adam Fuss and Tobias Collier.
 
Deloitte Luxembourg
Outer Worlds 30 November 2010 - 5 January 2011