The Illuminating Engineering Society New York City Section’s (IESNYC) Student Lighting Competition (SLC) recognized several remarkable winners in its 15th annual competition.
“denCITY,” a design collaboration by Nura Venta, Sergio Taveras and Selin Ergeneli (Parsons The New School for Design) won the Grand Prize and cash prize of $2,000.
Second prize was awarded to Pratt Institute’s Seung Jun Kwak and third prize went to Walker Tovin also of Pratt, who will receive $1,000 and $500 respectively. In addition, five students and their projects received honorable mentions.
Students were challenged to apply their education, skills and imagination to take an elusive concept and transform it into a three-dimensional illuminated visual experience. This year’s theme, “Residual Sparks,” challenged students to build a 3-dimensional study on how light is interwoven with time and memory and how what we have seen is imprinted in memory and affects how we view the world.
Grand Prize
“denCITY” by Nura Venta, Sergio Taveras, and Selin Ergeneli Parsons The New School for Design – MFA Lighting Design, Parsons The New School for Design – Nelson Jenkins, Davidson Norris, and Glenn Shrum, instructors
“denCITY,” is composed of fabric shaped by volumetric forms and evokes a sense of time and memory at the large scale seen in the annual seasons, and at the same time, at a more focused scale of light throughout the day. Two layers of light, with one more diffused and in the background, provides an ambient glow, while the other is more direct and focused. This light acts as the sun from sunrise to sunset against the static nature of New York, a dense city and of a forest. The project was designed to be open to interpretation and some viewers perceived it to show the changing seasons while others thought it to be the sunrise to sunset phenomena.
Second Prize
People Come and Go by Seung Jun Kwak Pratt Institute – BID Industrial Design- Scott Vandervoort, instructor
Throughout Seung Jun Kwak‘s second prize winning “People Come and Go,” is a silhouette of a person on a flat wall representing people no longer around, but who vaguely stay in his memory.
Third Prize
(untitled) by Walker Tovin Pratt Institute – BID Industrial Design, Willy Schwenzfeier, instructor
Walker Tovin’s (untitled) third prize winning project attempts to render the contemplative nature of memory itself, recalling the times he spent as a child looking out of the rear window of a car and watching the oncoming headlights and the rain as it slide down the glass.
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