Fluidum is a robotic sculpture built from 85 individually controlled mirrors, arranged as a vertical surface that behaves like water. As you approach, the mirrors ripple and tilt, breaking and rebuilding your reflection — a moving surface somewhere between a mirror and a pool.
Fluidum
A kinetic sculpture made of 85 robotically controlled mirrors
An Introspective Evolution
The idea goes back to the first time a person saw themselves in water. In a day full of screens and notifications, Fluidum asks a slower question about who we are and where we are heading, using the mirror as a bridge between our technology-heavy present and a quieter, more reflective past.
Immersive Mirror
Fluidum grew out of Reflexe, the 2019 installation I made with Adam Cigler for Prague’s Signal Festival, which went on to tour audiovisual festivals across Europe. Where Reflexe was a flat wall of mirrors, Fluidum adds a third dimension — the mirrors move in and out, deepening the sense of depth and making each encounter more personal.
”Mirror wall moving so fluidly one would think they are the waves of the ocean.
Making of Fluidum
Fluidum was built with the team at the PrusaLab makerspace. Like the credits at the end of a film, the people below did the work that turned the concept into a working machine.
production management
Ondřej Kašpárek, Roman Schiller, Tereza Vaníková
firmware, electronics, network
Matěj Suchánek
production team
Stanislav Wasserbauer, Lukáš Kramer, Michal Trnečka, Aleks Ristić, Bedřich Štěpánek, Martin Šťastný, Jan Jakš, Leoš Hort, Jiří Tyl, Gabi Novotná, Max Klimeš
content
Jiří Tyl, Jakub Kmošek, Vojtěch Bartoš
special thanks to
Jiří Zemánek (kinematics), Aleš Hrabě (coding)
