Modeling THE Northern Spark
David Goldes and Jonathan Bruce Williams, model for Northern Spark
Tesla coils are so last year. David Goldes and Jonathan Bruce Williams will be presenting THE Northern Spark at Northern Spark outside Phillips Distilling Company’s gorgeous headquarters on Main St.
THE Northern Spark is an iconic electrical spark generator installation near the St. Anthony Falls hydroelectric plant, the only waterfall-driven hydroelectric plant on the Mississippi River. The installation will consist of a centralized rotating electrode arm from which electricity will jump across a spark gap to approximately one hundred terminals along a twelve-foot-diameter steel circle. Adjacent to the arcing power circle will be a video projection of closely related imagery, including the spark machine in operation, tonally reversed images of it, shadow images, close-ups, and other aspects.
