For my light art project, I want to do a piece based on the mid-autumn moon festival. This is an Asian holiday that celebrates the full moon in the fall and is the second most celebrated holiday in Vietnam. The moon festival is a holiday I really enjoy and find integral to my culture. Additionally,…
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My Concepts
I have been jumping around between various ideas for this project. The three ideas I currently have are a light board companion for the game of SKATE or HORSE, a light battle game, and a weather with lights that move to the rhythm of the wearer’s heartbeat. I do not know exactly where each would…
Concept Proposal
As I was looking through projects from previous classes, I came across a very unique one that I would love to make myself. It is an origami light mural. It consists of 780 origami balls of either white, blue, or grey and each one is on an LED light. I thought this was a great…
Concept Proposal
Cut Paper Light-boxing This technique involves layering cut paper to create the illusion of depth with filtering light. With a light source placed behind the layered paper, you can capture the detail of each layer while combining all of the layers to create the desired effect. Personally, I am intrigued by the abstract nature of…
Luftwerk – Light Artists
Introduction Founded in 2007, Luftwerk is a collaboration between two artists, Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. Luftwerk does location-based, “site” artwork, interpreting the history and the unique physical features of the site into the art installation. Technique Luftwerk does not focus on one method of light art, but rather has a vast portfolio of light…
Concept Proposal
Most of my art inspiration comes from nature and my favorite places. For this project my inspiration is the ocean, I love the different colors of the water and how peaceful it is. I want to create a light box/rectangular lamp out of stained glass that emulates the shadows and light patterns on the sea…
James Turrell – Light Artist
James Turrell is an avid pilot and studied psychology in college. He has art installations worldwide in over 29 countries and has created over 80 Skyspaces (which is one of his famous art series). His art falls under the theme of light and space artwork. He often integrates the sky into his artwork and focuses…
Barry Underwood
Who is he: Barry Underwood is a photographer who makes art falling under his categorization of: Land Art, Staged Photography, and Minimalist Sculpture. He has become quite successful for these pieces and has been earned awards such as the Creative Workforce Fellowship through the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (OH), The Cleveland Arts Prize…
Light Artist – Diet Wiegman
Diet Weigman is a multidisciplinary visual artist from the Netherlands. He is considered to be an “art omnivore” and has created works of art using ceramics, drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and light. His light art is primarily made by arranging small bits of trash or other objects in a unique way to caste a desired…
Janne Parviainen
Janne Parviainen is a Finnish born artist most well known for his light paintings and light art installations. Some of his more well-known pieces have been featured in National Geographic, and a variety of other pieces have been published in magazines and online. In his work, Janne combines his love of light art with his…
Jen Lewin
Jen Lewin is an artist based in New York City who specializes in large, interactive installation sculptures that incorporate light, sound, and complex software. All of her pieces have a common idea, to create an active connection between the artist and the audience. Lewin’s career started with small permanent installations that could only work with…
Carnovsky Duo
Carnovsky is a Milan based art and design duo comprised of Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla. They first presented their work in 2010 and focus on RGB art that makes use of color changing lights that interact with a variety of prints. After meeting in graduate school they decided they wanted to work together after…
Hari & Deepti
Hari & Deepti are a husband-wife duo of light artists that primarily work with hand-cut paper and light boxes. They initially started in 2010 in Denver, CO as an experiment. Since then they have made their light art their full time job and have moved to Mumbai. Hari & Deepti use their art as a…
Bruce Monro
Bruce Monro, 61 years old, was born on June 2nd, 1959 in London. At the age of 9 he already had a passion for art and growing up remembers getting in trouble often for daydreaming in class. Monro went to college at Bristol Polytechnic and received a bachelors degree in Fine Arts. After college, Monro…