Hari and Deepti are a husband-and-wife artist team from Mumbai, India. Their work centers on light boxes using paper cut diorama. The principle is quite simple: Layers and layers of hand cut paper are stacked on top of each other, then enclosed in a box and back-lit by LED strip. This result in a magical,…
Light Artist – Jen Lewin
Jen Lewin has created a number of permanent and temporary exhibits all over the world to allow more people to experience Light Art. Her work is almost always connected with nature. Many of her works are displayed in public places, and enhance nature with interactive sound and light. She uses a number of different tools…
Barry Underwood: Light Artist
Barry Underwood is a light artist who lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Aside from being an artist, Underwood is an associate professor in the Photo & Video Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art. At Indiana University Northwest in Gary, Underwood majored in theater and worked as a tech director for a year. Despite being offered…
Light Artists: CuteCircuit
CuteCircuit is a pioneer in fashion wearable technology by merging futuristic fashion designs and smart fabric with advanced technology to create a magical interactive experience for their customers and viewers. Francesca Rosella, who worked as a designer for Valentino, and Ryan Genz, an art and anthropology major, co-founded the company. They met in 2001 at…
Marshmallow Laser Feast – Light Artists
Who is Marshmallow Laser Feast? Marshmallow Laser Feast (MLF) is a London-based collective run by Ersin Han Ersin that tries to blend the line between the digital and physical world. They are a small team that employs a lot of freelancers including but not limited to artists, game developers, programmers, and scientists. The work that…
Light Painter Hannu Huhtamo
Hannu Huhtamo is a light artist from Finland who since 2008 has specialized in a form of light art known as light painting. Light painting is a form of art wherein light in a dark environment is captured by a lens over a long exposure time varying from a few seconds to multiple hours. While…
Peter Erskine — A light artist
In 1989 Peter Ersikine created a new Solar Spectrum Environmental Art medium called Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations (S.O.S.). S.O.S. is about the beauty and dangers of Sunlight: the beauty of the rainbow and the horrors of global warming, ozone depletion and mass species extinction. Like the beauty of the rainbow, this new art…
Light Artist – Thomas Wilfred
Thomas Wilfred (1889 – 1968) was a Danish-American musician and inventor. He was a pioneering light artist and invented a new mesmerizing art form called Lumia by combining modern art and technology. Unlike most traditional art forms that are frozen, Lumia is a composition of light, color, and form that is constantly changing with time….
Janne Parviainen
Janne Parviainen is 39 years old from Helsinki, Finland. Like many other light artists, Janne started with photography and discovered light art by accident when he had forgotten that long exposure was turned on and he noticed he could write text with streetlights by moving the camera while it was exposing. After discovering the Light…
Light Artist – Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang, an artist originally from China, connects his viewers to nature and the universe through unique mediums. Cai uses gunpowder to create paintings, fireworks to fill the sky with wonderful images, light tubes for dramatic affect and some sculpted animals for connectedness of nature. “I try to use my art as a channel of…
Light Artist- Luzinterruptus
Luzinterruptus is an anonymous art group who originally began working on the streets of Madrid by using light as a way to bring attention to certain parts of the city. Their main technique that makes them different is their art pieces are short lived, meaning they only last for a few days, sometimes even a…
Ben Liang – Introduction
Hi there! My first memory about art was when I was very little. I loved to draw. My grandma bought me an art books that had outlined figures in them and she told me to pick different colors and color them however I wanted. At first I did exactly just that made the figures all…
Will Gaddis Intro Portfolio
Creative arts and digital media have always been at the forefront of my interests throughout my life. I worked primarily with traditional media such as drawing, painting, and sculpture earlier in my life. But starting about 4 years ago I began transitioning to the world of digital arts. I have spent the past few years…