{"id":394,"date":"2022-09-01T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a22\/?p=394"},"modified":"2022-09-01T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:05:28","slug":"concepts-sperry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joshuarosenstock.com\/teaching\/lightart-a22\/jsperry\/concepts-sperry\/","title":{"rendered":"Concepts – Sperry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Concept 1: Water Box<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This concept uses streams of water and high-frequency light to create still frames of water flow. This would work on similar mechanics as Jeff Lieberman’s Slow Dance (shown below). However, there are currently some problems with the idea because the frequency would be around 4 Hz to be able to clear all the water to make a new frame but this would require at least 60 Hz to not be able to notice the flashing lights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With these constraints, I think this piece would turn out very differently than the concept, but I am still interested in doing something with water. Some other ideas I have are a mist screen and some way to control the speed of the mist to match the frequency of light. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was also thinking of a laminar sheet of water that has a little blocker on a linear slider so that you can draw sine waves and stiff in the water sheet. The only problem with this one is that its a step removed from “light art”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Concept 2: Chasing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This concept is arguably not light art but it is something that I really want to work on so I’m including it anyway. This is a work that I started a long time ago when I was staying with a friend of mine who has a pretty cool artist shop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea is a kinetic wire sculpture inspired by Arthur Ganson. Two small birds flap around a circle about 1\/4 of a turn apart, The bird in the front will flap at a leisurely pace like the one in the video, and then the bird in the back will flap twice as fast. The birds represent the feeling of always chasing something that you will never catch. The hopelessness of this feeling is something that I am experiencing now and am drawn to complete the piece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This term, I would work on creating some of the tools required to make gears and other wire-bending fixtures that I was able to use at Arthur’s shop, as well as building the top half of the piece. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can I use light more in these concepts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What problems do you foresee with the water concepts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am trying to decide between Concepts one and two, Do you have any inputs on which is more interesting?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I really like Chasing, but I don’t know how to make it fit the scope of the class. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Concept 1: Water Box This concept uses streams of water and high-frequency light to create still frames of water flow. This would work on similar mechanics as Jeff Lieberman’s Slow Dance (shown below). However, there are currently some problems with the idea because the frequency would be around 4 Hz to be able to clear… <\/p>\n

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