So Fly(light)

Posted by Daphne - August 13, 2012 - from the lips of LEKOGIRL, Interactive Light, Light Art

Studio Drift's Fragile Future has been a favorite of mine since I saw it years ago at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. And they're still cranking out the awesome! Flylight is another beautiful design from Studio Drift. Each piece is composed of at least 180 glass tubes, each individually controlled [...]

The Bay Lights

Posted by Daphne - July 25, 2012 - Architectural Lighting, from the lips of LEKOGIRL, Lighting Art and Installations

Wow! The Bay Lights proposal is one of the coolest urban public lighting proposals I've seen in a while. The San Francisco Bay Bridge is a massive canvas, and an unparalleled location for a lighting playground. Numerous cities have treated their bridges with light, but for some reason, this particular proposal just glows: The Bay [...]

Artificial Moon in Xujiahui Park

Posted by Daphne - June 7, 2012 - cfl, from the lips of LEKOGIRL, Light Art, light pollution

"Artificial Moon" by Wang Yuyang uses various fluorescent light bulbs to create a400 cm (>13 feet) representation of our moon, complete with representations of craters, maria, and rims. Even stronger than the piece itself to me is the choice of location for this piece in 2008, Xujiahui's park, one of the last remaining park areas in the [...]

Isabelle Hayeur's "Fire with Fire" Installation

Posted by Jim - January 22, 2011 - architainment, Just Plain AWESOME., Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations

Have you seen Isabelle Hayeur's video installation called "Fire with Fire?" Check out this video: This is pretty awesome! As Make Magazine puts it, and in the words of Mark Frauenfelder, "I think people who enjoy getting mad will enjoy getting mad" at this art installation by Isabelle Hayeur. From Isabelle Hayeur's site on Fire [...]

ResoNet – An LED Spider Web

Posted by Jim - August 9, 2009 - LEDs, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Lighting for Enjoyment!

ResoNet is an interactive lighting installation that reacts to vibrations in the vicinity – a wave of wind, someone shaking the structure, whatever. I'll let the video speak for itself, but it's kind of like a big light up spider web: ResoNet was designed by Mark Francis Tynan and William Hailiang Chen.

La Vitrine by Moment Factory and Photonic Dreams

Posted by Jim - August 3, 2009 - architainment, Architectural Lighting, Digital Light, Industry News, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Video Screen Technology

I just read about a permanent installation project in Montreal called La Vitrine, which is an interactive LED wall that reacts to people as they walk by and glance at the project. From Fubiz: Moment Factory (momentfactory.com) developed the interactive system and designed the interactive content. PHOTONIC Dreams (photonicdreams.com) created the original LED video wall [...]

Moodwall, Amsterdam

Posted by Jim - February 25, 2009 - Architectural Lighting, Designers, LEDs, Light Art, Lighting and the Human Element, Lighting Art and Installations

The video above is a project called the Moodwall – an interactive LED installation by the Urban Alliance collective. The Moodwall is an Amsterdam marvel, adding light and security (and entertainment) to the tunnel where it resided. The "urban wallpaper" of sorts is made from about 2500 LEDs behind a translucent poly wall of some [...]

Aleksandra Stratimirovic – The City and Sunny Day

Posted by Jim - February 21, 2009 - Designers, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations

The City is an installation by Aleksandra Stratimirovic that we'll get to in a moment – her name is new to me, but her work is very deep. As a lighting artist, she's created a variety of works, from luminares to Sunny Day, a backlit picture made from medical jars full of colored liquid. Beautiful [...]

HYPERION_Fragment

Posted by Jim - February 12, 2009 - artists, LEDs, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Lighting for Enjoyment!

The artist Rosalie has brought an installation called HYPERION_Fragment to the ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany – HYPERION_Fragment is a 3,150 LED display about 9 1/4 meters high and 27 meters wide – it's HUGE! The LEDs are programmed to display a river of light across several very distinct color effects. Check out the videos, [...]

DA Therrien's Beautiful Light

Posted by Jim - February 7, 2009 - Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations

The above video is of the installation Beautiful Light from DA Therrien – the installation is over, but it was in Scottsdale, AZ on the 16th and 17th of January. This is a huge installation – 500 kW – and according to the Beautiful Light website, Beautiful Light "explored the purity of white light, the [...]