The Flux room is a flexible space modulation machine designed to register the changing effects of magnetic fields. The installation will be mounted in a space measuring approximately 3m high by 3m wide by 5m long. Suspended within this room are approximately 4000 equally spaced magnetic needles loosely attached to tensioned nylon line so as to move freely in the X, Y, and Z-axis.
The magnetic fields are generated by a series of solenoids located within the space. The solenoids are linked by a control system, which can modulate the strength of the magnetic fields given off by the solenoid array, so as to produce a range of rhythmic flows through the needles in the space.
Visitors will walk along a path among the needles and through their presence effect the organization of the field. In general, we envision a highly mobile installation which can generate a wide range of field effects, for example schools of fish; wind on fields of grain, clouds, vortices, etc.
— Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto

Jesse Reiser (1958, New York) and Nanako Umemoto (Kioto).
They have practiced in New York City as Reiser + Umemoto RUR Architecture P.C. since 1986. The firm approaches each project as the continuation of an ongoing inquiry, delving into relationships among architecture, territory and systems of distribution. By working on projects of varying scales, from the architectural to the regional, the firm has developed flexible strategies and techniques that seek open structures that are now ossified and to integrate domains that historically have been kept apart.