Everett Johnson
For my presentation, I looked into Luftwerk. Luftwerk is the artistic collaboration of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. Luftwerk explores light, color, and perception in immersive installations. Focused on the context of a site for each project, Luftwerk applies their own interpretive layer, integrating the physical structure, historical context, and embedded information into each piece. Luftwerk primarily uses geometry and different shades of colors to capture symmetrical and well flowing designs. Luftwerk focuses on the concepts that are introduced in architecture and in the color spectrum. They combine ideas about projection and human interaction in most if not all of their works.
In my presentation, I focused on four main works of theirs including Spectrum, Luminous Field, Turning Sky, and Color Code.
Spectrum is a large-scale, digitized and re-imagined color wheel with 529 painted square panels that cover an entire wall. Once illuminated with animated, colored light, the reception of the colors shift in more than 3,174 tones of red, yellow, and blue.
Luminous Field is work that is comprised of projections that video-mapped the tiles of the plaza creating a digital mosaic. Inspired by Italian marble floors, the tessellation patterns, the digital mosaic added a new, contemporary layer to the work.
Turning Sky is an ephemeral lighting station that visualizes local weather and atmospheric conditions on the trail. Patterns of clouds varying in speed coincide with wind data, velocity, and direction, and the ever-changing colors represent temperature.
Color Code consists of nine paintings applied to the gallery’s walls. The paintings, using the International Morse Code system of dots and dashes to spell out “SOS,” are configured with a variation on complementary color patterns, creating a playful visual excursion.
