Dmitry Morozov aka ::vtol:: (b.1986) is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher. He focuses on contemporary media arts including sound, robotics and installation, placing special emphasis on the link between emergent systems and new kinds of technological synthesis. Currently based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

His works have been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including the Laznia Center for Contemporary Arts (Gdansk), ZKM Zentrum (Karlsruhe), National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (Taichung), Kapelica gallery (Ljubljana), ArtScience Museum (Singapore), HEK (Basel), Laboratoria Art&Science Space (Moscow) etc., and in festivals such as SIGGRAPH 2016 (Anaheim), Mirage (Lyon), Ars Electronica (Linz), Future Everything (Manchester) and CTM (Berlin).

He is the award winner of the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize (Russia, 2013 and 2020), Innovation (Russia, 2020), Prix Cube (France, 2014) and also received honorary mentions at VIDA 16.0 (Spain, 2014) and Prix Ars Electronica (Austria, 2015, 2017).

This installation is a mechanism that serves as a kind of interface between planetary processes and an audience. It consists of 12 transparent piezocrystals, grown especially for the project, and 12 motorized hammers that strike them. The installation is connected to the internet. Its core algorithm is controlled by data from a meteorological site which shows lightning strikes in real time (on average, 10~200 lightning flashes occur on the planet every minute).

Each time the installation receives information about a lightning strike, a hammer strikes one of the crystals, resulting in a small electrical discharge produced by the crystal under mechanical stress. Each of these charges activates a powerful lamp and sound effects.

Adad is a Mesopotamian God of Weather, Hurricanes, Storms, Thunder and Rain.

*Piezocrystals (potassium sodium tartrate, or Rochelle salt) produce electricity when mechanically activated. They are used to make microphones, motors and other mechanisms.