I luckily failed early and I am very happy I did, because I needed all the time I could get to assemble my final project. My first “failure” was what I was going to choose as my light pegs. I couldn’t figure out a cost-friendly idea that aligned with my original vision. I went immediately…
Final Documentation
This project brings the spectacle of a thunderstorm to life through an interactive light art installation that reacts to sound. Using a WS2812B LED strip controlled by an Arduino Nano, the system listens for loud noises via a microphone module, responding instantly with bursts of light that mimic the unpredictable beauty of lightning strikes. Each…
Kat Tse Final Documentation
Light Art as a topic can cover so many different kinds of projects and ideas. The course aims to push students to think creatively about using light to create or enhance art. When getting started with the class, I knew that I wanted to incorporate other things I loved within my project, and those things…
Final Documentation – Jesse Frey
My final piece is a painting that changes when viewed through a red filter. It evolved from an abstract painting, where I was going to overlay an animation. When I made my maquette, I randomly chose red and blue paint, and realized that using red/blue LEDs made the red/blue paint disappear, respectively. I ran with…
Getting Things Working and Polishing – Abby Mansour
Getting Things Working – Week 6 This week I made a Target run and bought some glowsticks, because I had an idea of using some form of light stick to fill larger areas of space with colored light. I got around 150 of them in varying colors and sizes. Some of them are shown below:…
Cullen Jacene: Final Documentation
Lasers are not a typical medium for creating art, and when they are used, they usually take the form of very abstract patterns due to their limitations. This project sought to experiment with what could be done with lasers by creating a recognizable design, the outline of the continents, using the beams of lasers. This…
Kat Tse Polish & Present
To finish up my project, all I had left was to sew the EL wire onto the leotard. I ended up running into a bit of an issue with my first plan for the wire. When I finished doing it, I could not stretch the leotard far enough to put it on. I then had…
Cullen Jacene: Polish & Present
This week, my focus was adding the frame to me project, which not only cleans up the look of the project but also houses all the mechanisms for operating the lasers. It did not go as planned though, as I severely underestimated the difficulty of lining up the laser buttons with the screws, I planned…
Light Artist: Kolya Cochran
Early Life Born July 31, 1941 in Mamou, Louisiana. Mardi Gras is, and was, a big part of the culture and community. His father worked as a carpenter, and his mother was a florist. Early Influences Graduated in 1963 from Southwestern Louisiana Institute (U of L at Lafayette). Followed up with an MFA from Rutgers…
“Everything Working” – Thea Caplan
So not “everything” is working… there are still a lot of small bugs, but they are very straight forward to deal with. I finished the mechanics of the first flower, and combined with the electronics. Here’s a view of the (messy) electronics: A couple problems that popped up included: My goals for this week: On…
Kat Tse Everything Working
The skirt is done! The hardest part of my project is working, and pretty well in my opinion. I was able to straighten the tassels with a hair straightener. I had to use a tap technique rather than the clamp and straighten technique that one would use on hair. After, I sewed them onto the…