Archivi tag: Light designing

Light Masonry light installation by Jason Bruges
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Light Masonry

Client: Make it York

Location: York Minster, York

Year: 2016

Illuminating York, supported by Arts Council England, is an annual event which sees a variety of designers invited to create light installations across the historic city. The Festival encourages visitors to explore and discover the city through the imagination of artists, using the medium of light in all its forms.

Light Masonry is an epic, site specific, light installation based in the main nave of York Minster. The artwork is founded on the construct of creating a secondary layer of dynamic, temporal and ephemeral architecture sculptured from light. Inspired by the continuous crafting and iterating of the layers of work by the Minster’s stonemasons, the studio has investigated the relationship between the vaults, light and the audience. Drawing upon the ceremonial nature of the space, the studio has created a synchronized procession of light that highlights and explores the nave as a choreographed architectural experience. The art installation inscribes the perimeter of the main nave and is constructed from a bespoke system of 48 computer controlled Icon Beam moving head luminaires, animating a dynamic light architecture around the atmospheric volumes of the nave. The piece is immersive and complimented by the soundscape of Intervallo by Arvo Pärt, performed by John Bradbury and Benjamin Morris the Minsters organists.

SuperLux Smart Light Art, Design & Architecture for Cities by Davina Jackson
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SuperLux: Smart Light Art, Design and Architecture for Cities, edited by Davina Jackson, is the world’s first comprehensive monograph surveying recent milestones and triumphs using digital systems for lighting urban environments. The book’s three main pictorial sections focus on projects that use light to animate architecture and media screens, new forms of lighting in industrial zones and public areas, and interactive installations in urban spaces.

Its 272 pages include more than 400 images of post-2008 examples of energy-effective light installations – illuminated buildings, bridges, streets, parks, plazas, media walls, public interiors, water systems and gallery spaces, including interactions and augmented reality games using mobile devices.

Description

In recent years, new lighting technologies have been used to illuminate cities and towns in creative, energy-efficient ways. “Smart Light” is now a widely used term for the new technologies and ecological ideas that are transforming nighttime atmospheres and spectacular Smart Light festivals are awing audiences around the world.

Featuring more than 120 public artworks, design installations, and architectural elements, SuperLux is a visual celebration of the ingenuity and artistry of the latest lighting technology. The book’s three sections focus on projects that use light to animate architecture and media screens; new lighting in former industrial zones and new public areas, including wayfinding and street lighting; and interactive installations in urban spaces. Each is punctuated with essays by leading experts and designers on this remarkable new phenomenon.

As our public buildings, public spaces, and even homes become increasingly interactive, intelligent lighting design will become ever more relevant to our lives. SuperLux is an exciting introduction for designers, architects, artists, and anyone intrigued by the power of light.

Contributors

Davina Jackson

Author

Davina Jackson is a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths College of Art, University of London, and former editor of Architecture Australia magazine. Her previous books include Next Wave: Emerging Talents in Australian Architecture.

The images and editorial texts are punctuated by guest essays from leading European scholars and light art designers, including Professor Peter Weibel (founder-director of the ZKM Media Arts Center), Professor Mary-Anne Kyriakou (founder of the first three Smart Light festivals), Dr Vesna Petresin (multimedia artist), Dr Thomas Schielke (curator and writer), and Professor Peter Droege (Chair of the World Renewable Energy Council).

Additional highlights of this timely volume are Dr Schielke’s Timeline of Luminous Structures since the 13th century, Professor Droege’s proposal for designers to subscribe to the SuperLux Code of Energy Conduct, European Space Agency photographs of cities at night from the International Space Station, and a list of notable city light festivals, approved by European festivals curator Bettina Catler-Pelz.

The book has been approved by UNESCO as a contribution to the United Nations’ 2015 International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies.

SuperLux: Smart Light Art, Design and Architecture for Cities is published globally by Thames and Hudson, London, 2015, ISBN 9780500343043. Cover photograph (above) shows Mer-veille, a LED installation by Yann Kersalé, illuminating metal filigree screens around the new MuCEM building in Marseille, by architect Rudy Ricciotti. Photo Lisa Ricciotti/MuCEM.

The book’s Australian press release is here and the international press release is here.

STREET ART 2.0 / GALERIJA KLOVICE RI DVORI SEPTEMBER 26 NOVEMBER 29
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The exhibition presents an unprecedented picture of new practices in the field of Street Art: Graffiti 2.0, light painting, street mapping or anamorphosis, while replacing them in the historical context of the subject.

First held in the EDF Gallery in Paris, this decade-spanning panorama tracing the development of street art takes in work by iconic names such as Zevs, Vhils, Mark Jenkins, Shepard…

First, an overview of Street Art since its origins using archives, photographs, magazines and posters shows how technological breakthroughs such as spray paint, document scanning and the Internet have impacted the practice. Then the tour focuses on the state-of-the-art works displayed, combining the use of traditional spray paint, stencils and brushes with digital cameras, video projectors, plotters and QR codes to create hybrid works intended for urban landscapes as well as Smartphones, computers and tablets.

Exhibition: Antonin Fourneau Waterlight graffiti

http://www.waterlightgraffiti.com/tag/antonin-fourneau/

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Zagreb, 10000 Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)

 

https://vimeo.com/47095462

Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau
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Antonin Fourneau’s artist residency in the Digitalarti Artlab resulted in the Water Light Graffiti project: an LED wall that reacts to contact with water. After several months of tests, prototypes and material improvements, the project finally saw the light for a few days in a public space in Poitiers, France (end of July 2012).

Since then, Water Light Graffiti has been exhibited in Paris, Las Vegas, Abu Dhabi, Barcelona, Rotterdam, New York, The Hague, Chicago, Amsterdam…

All the construction photographs : at this link
The prototypes period video : at this link (in french, translation by hackaday members here)
All the photographs of public exhibitions: at this link

Water Light Graffiti is a project of Antonin Fourneau
Engineer : Jordan McRae
Design Structure : Guillaume Stagnaro
Graffiti performance : Collectif Painthouse
Assistant team: Clement Ducerf and all the ArtLab volunteers
ArtLab Manager: Jason Cook

Filming: Sarah Taurinya & Quentin Chevrier
Photographs: Quentin Chevrier
Music: Jankenpopp (soundcloud.com/jankenpopp)
Editing and titles: Formidable Studio and Maïa Bompoutou

Support : Ville de Poitiers and Centre Culturel Saint Exupéry

Contact : services@digitalarti.com

Chas Llewellyn explores the form and function of a large-scale light sculpture using Moog Music’s Animoog app as the control source.
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Un articolo interessante di PETER KIRN su Chas Llewellyn nel sito Createdigitalmusic 

 Chas traduce con Max/MSP la musica in luce. 

Full description:

Sculptor / programmer / interactive interface designer, Chas Llewellyn, explores the form and function of a large-scale light sculpture he designed using Moog Music’s Animoog app as the control source. From his former Wedge Studios workspace in Asheville’s River Arts District, Chas details the multiple electronic communication protocols that he integrated into the final working installation.

 

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Light as a medium, Space as a canvas: the art of Joanie Lemercier (AntiVJ)
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Joanie Lemercier is a French artist primarily focused on projections of light in space and its influence on our perception. Lemercier was introduced to creating art on a computer at age five by attending classes on pattern design for fabrics taught by his mother. The threads of his early education grounded his interest in physical structures: geometry, patterns, and minimalist forms. As Lemercier’s work evolved, he began to play with these concrete structures through the physics and philosophy of how light can be used to manipulate perceived reality.

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Since 2006 Lemercier has worked with projected light, and he co founded visual label AntiVJ in 2008, with artists Yannick Jacquet, Romain Tardy and Olivier Ratsi. He worked on stage design for festivals such as Mutek (Montreal, Mexico) and worked alongside artists such as Flying Lotus (special show at the Roundhouse London), and with Portishead’s Adrian Utley (as part of the cultural Olympiads, London 2012), and architectural projections all around the world.

In 2010, Lemercier turned his focus on installations and gallery work, and exhibited at China Museum of Digital Art, (Beijing), Art Basel Miami and Sundance film festival 2013. In 2013, Lemercier founded a creative studio in NYC, focused on research and development of artworks and experiments that use projected light in space.

He is represented by Muriel Guepin Gallery in New York City.

Photography

Château des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, 2010.

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Light sculpture v2 - Mapping festival, Geneve 2008

Installation AntiVJ - Paysages Electroniques - 3-5 avril 2008 - Lille - France

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Eyjafjallajökull, NY, May 2010 – commissioned by onedotzero

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Paper and light

Paper and light