Chris Bell, a professional artist and adjunct professor at Stanford University, often uses light as part of his sculptural toolkit. Believing fluorescent lamps have been overlooked as a medium for creating art, he developed unique rubber connectors from a mold of his own design, allowing him to achieve architectural sculptures using the lamps in various cohesive formations. His latest creation, installed as part of the Zero1 Art & Technology Festival at the Performance Art Institute in San Francisco, CA, is currently on exhibition through January 15, 2013. It is 13 feet wide and suspended 20 feet in the air through use of a steel frame. To illuminate the fluorescent tubes in this sculpture, Fulham donated WorkHorse fluorescent ballasts suitable for the project. The WorkHorse series of just 10 ballasts operate approximately 132 lamps in 860 combinations.
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