As you enter the cavernous lobby of the Gov. George Deukmejian Courthouse in Long Beach, a large colorful feather appears on the silver mesh LED screen 30 feet overhead. The feather sways back and forth as it gently descends, stirred by an unfelt breeze. Then another feather appears and another and still more until the screen fills with a swirl of neon pinks, oranges, greens, blues and yellows that appear and fade in a hypnotic dance.

If that’s not what you’d expect when you enter a courthouse, then you’ve reacted just as the artist, UCLA Design Media Arts professor Jennifer Steinkamp, intended.