There is something about light emanating through a slit in a surface that just blows my mind. As suggestive as that comment is, I ensure you it is not meant for that kind of thought, even though I know about half of you out there immediately went there. What you're seeing above is the genius [...]
Read More awesome, Chris Fraser, installations, Light Art, light artistFor some reason, when I saw these images for the first time a few hours ago, the first thought that popped into my head was Ron Burgundy saying "by the beard of Zeus!" These pieces below are just outstanding to me. Kumi Yamashita has created many of these "shadow works" before – she is absolutely [...]
Read More installations, Kumi Yamashita, Light Art, shadow art, shadowsSuper company Siemens (they're the parent company of OSRAM) installed a ton of high-power LED modules onto a wind turbine located next to the A9 Autobahn highway at Christmas time. In conjunction with multimedia artist Michael Pendry, Siemens installed 9,000 OSRAM LEDs onto the blades of the wind turbine. You could see the installation (it [...]
Read More installations, Light Art, Michael Pendry, Munich, Siemens, wind turbinesIsrael's second largest city Tel Aviv has a series of underground walking tunnels that were a great place for artists Bar & Shay to unleash their latest work. The artists altered the public lighting in the tunnels to something a little more colorful. From Wooster Collective, the tunnels with their normal lighting: Now, the Bar [...]
Read More Bar&Shay, installations, Light Art, Tel AvivLight sculptor Orest Tataryn has created an installation called Lux Morpheme – an installation that uses black light to reveal color in the work. Orest has a few mouth-blown neon black light tubes that pulse every couple of seconds to pop color. Orest has also designed into the work a series of coin-shaped landscapes that [...]
Read More installations, Light Art, Orest TatarynOkay, maybe junk is a little excessive, maybe not. This is a bit of a departure from what I've been seeing lately – a collection of "found objects" that are mixed with some light, creating these sculptures of mass stare-ability. Stare-ability? Wow, I guess I'm also making up words today. A description from Warren Muller's [...]
Read More found art, found light, installations, Light Art, Warren MullerI just discovered this beautiful project – it's no longer installed, as it was on display July 28, 2008 through August 22, 2008. Toyo Ito and Associates Architects and Takram Design Engineering created this interactive exhibit with 280 glass chimes. Here's some info on the project: On a grid of equilateral triangles, we hung a [...]
Read More chimes, Furin, installations, interactive, Takram Design Engineering, Toyo Ito and Associates ArchitectsSanta Monica city government and the Santa Monica Arts Foundation produced an even in Summer 2008 called Glow 08 – it was an evening to morning event featuring music, light, and art installations and projects. From the website and other articles I've read, it was pretty fantastic. One of the projects I ran across was [...]
Read More art, California, Glow 08, Haque, installations, interactive, Light Art, Primal Source, Santa Monica, VideoI just read two articles pointing me to the website of ENESS – it's an Australian design firm specializing in interactive art installations. For this year's Rainbow Serpent Festival, ENESS created the LightScraper – a pyramidal, video, sound, and light masterpiece that gives the beholder a unique perspective on the art. From the video on [...]
Read More art, ENESS, installations, Light Art, LightScraper, Rainbow Serpent FestivalWhat you're looking at above is an LED installation in Paris that interacts with human "signal" – mobile phone signals, people walking and cars driving, and interprets these datum into motion and light. The article from LEDs Mag talk about the installation, "fLUX." From the article: The installation was located on the banks of the [...]
Read More fLUX, France, installations, LAb[au], LED, Paris, Synesthesie