Concept Proposal

First idea: Inspired by the music video for Warriors by Imagine Dragons, there is a sequence when lightning striking illuminates silhouettes otherwise hidden in the clouds. Recreating this in a physical display would provide a really dynamic feeling. Second idea: Illuminating etched acrylic from the side lights only the etched portion, and the remaining acrylic…

Hannu Huhtamo

Hannu Huhtamo is a light artist that specializes in light painting with prolonged exposure. He studied at the Pop and Jazz Conservatory and was a musician before pursuing light painting. His first experience with any sort of light art was drawing a pentagram on an open shutter to be used as album art for his…

Final Documentation – Noah Hillman

My project, loosely titled “Visonic Show”, was a light art project that combines music with visual animations in a window of engraved panes. The major construction steps can be found in my previous posts, however I will give an overview of all the major components below. Panes The panes were made from 3/16″ acrylic sheets…

Kyle France: Final Documentation

Most of my finishing thoughts were covered in the Polish update, but I’ve now taken a video of the piece working. The final piece used acrylic, paint, corrugated E-flute cardboard, electrical tape, hot glue, and double-sided tape. The controls consisted of a speaker, an arduino UNO, and a breadboard with various components. Light was provided…

Final Documentation – Yllara Maia

Another term has come to an end, and now it’s time to reflect upon my experience with this project. At the beginning of the term, I had a general idea of what I wanted to do for my light art piece. I never imagined that it would come out the way that it did, and…

Kyle France: Polish

In this final section, I cut the acrylic pieces and rebuilt the project around them instead of the cardboard to create the final piece. Each piece was cut around the edges, and scored for the inside details. The depth of the score versus a raster etching catches more light from the LED’s. I eliminated the…

Polish & Present – Josue and Chris

While we had completely the majority of the project in the weeks prior, there were still a few bugs that needed to be ironed out and artistic details that needed to be added before we could officially call the project done. One of the main issues that we ran into was the fact that the…

Nathan Dennler: Polish and Present

Without giving too much away before the presentation, I wanted to document the meaning behind this term’s work, the design choices I have made, and further directions I would like to explore in this space of “Celestial Identities”. The Motivation The motivation behind these pieces was to explore what the concept of identity is. I…