JEM is a radiant interactive light installation that unites people through shared experience. A futuristic, organic folly; a place of respite that is both relaxing and awe-inspiring. JEM features thirty-two spokes brimming with light that individually respond to people's movement via powerful sensors. Plush pods, rhythmic sounds and mesmeric light pulsation combine in this contemplative digital temple in which visitors rest, dream and play.

JEM was commissioned and designed as a central attraction for Flowstate, a 3000 square metre renewal project at South Bank in Brisbane. JEM attracts and retains visitors in public space by providing a quiet dwell sanctum by day that transforms into a bright beacon of activity at night – a sculpture that is a stand-alone piece as well as a drawcard for other activation such as free performances and driving visitation to the adjacent restaurant precinct.

JEM’s generative soundtrack was written by a contemporary composer and is stimulated by visitor movement. Three different musical notes are assigned to each segment so as visitors’ move deeper into the sculpture, their movement triggers deeper tones. Visitors enter JEM from all directions in different formations and at different times; in this way the resulting soundscape is essentially sound-mixed by participants. 

Visitors spend hours resting, chatting and cuddling inside JEM on her mesh pods while millions of LEDs cycle through an infinite combination of spectacular lighting effects accompanied by rhythmic sounds lulling viewers into a mesmeric state of calm and wonder.