For Metis 2004, The SBLP presents LuxCorp. LuxCorp endeavours to construct a future environment, or lifestyle. Through deliberate fictions, LuxCorp applies research strategies to create real technology that incorporates elements of our living planet.

Luxcorp is an installation that transforms the gallery into a space that resembles a corporate biotech showroom displaying its prototype product line of light-emitting domestic furniture. Two central objects provide light within the darkened space: the organism generator is a state-of-the-art technology that sustains a super colony of bioluminescent bacteria; and a Light-Emitting Chair (LEC).

The SBLP has approached bioluminescence as a technology that could be exploited for application in the domestic consumer environment. Humans usually attempt to eradicate bacteria from living spaces but here we ask the audience to bathe in a light produced by bacteria and gauge whether or not this is a product that can be developed for a broader market. This product is not of our time but a product of the future, or rather, Science Fiction.

Visitors are invited to experience the growth of bacterial populations in a controlled environment and to recline and relax in a concept chair that provides light. We are proposing to place bioluminescence within the competitive market of electric lighting not so much as a utility but as a luxury.