Columbia University’s Living Architectural Lab’s Living Light is a permanent outdoor light sculpture in Peace Park in Seoul, Korea that displays information about local air quality. Check it out here or take a look at the below video. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6594946&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Living Light (Seoul, 2009) from David Benjamin on Vimeo.
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What’s Your Favorite Bioluminescent Critter?
The Huffington Post has posted a nice little slide show of critters that produce light using a bioluminescent process. The sea cucumber is beautiful to watch, but my vote for favorite went to the firefly. I grew up on a farm watching them light the field like moving sparks. Check it out here.
Massive James Turrell Lighting Installation to be Presented Thru April 5, 2010 in Germany
On October 24, 2009, a monumental lighting art installation, created by American lighting artist James Turrell, was presented to the public at the Wolfsburg Art Museum. The Wolfsburg Project, or “Wolfsburg Ganzfeld Piece” as it has come to be known, is the largest installation ever implemented by Turrell in a museum. Twelve meters high and [...]
Your Moment of Zen: Kinetic Sculpture at BMW Museum
Take a relaxing ride with Berlin Agency Art+Com‘s kinetic sculpture at the BMW Museum. From Art+Com’s website: The Kinetic Sculpture is a metaphorical translation of the process of form-finding in art and design. 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors and covering the area of six square meters, animate [...]
IESNYC Announces Call for Entries for the Tenth Annual Student Lighting Competition
The New York City Section of the Illuminating Engineering Society has announced a call for entries for the Tenth Annual Student Lighting Competition. Students located within the IESNYC chapter are being invited to participate in this unique design competition; this includes anyone within the NYC area as well as Columbia, Dutchess, Green, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, [...]
Ron Arad at MoMA
Ron Arad: “No Discipline” August 2, 2009–October 19, 2009 Museum of Modern Art New York City Some architectural materials and structures just seem to lend themselves very naturally to lighting. This is not exactly a lighting story, but this photo caught my eye because of the way light so easily becomes part of the sculpture: [...]
7,000 LEDs Used for Light Art Project at Goggleworks
This is an amazing project. At the Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Color Kinetics‘ iColor Flex SLX strands were manually installed in the glass of the art center, creating the effect as if someone is drawing on the building. Check it out here:
Light-Art Concert
On December 19, 2008, the Jena Philharmonic Orchestra in Jena, Germany, performed works by composers Alexander Scriabin, Igor Stravinsky and Georg Friedrich Haas in a concert hall filled with 170 weather balloons that changed color to complement and enhance the music–the joint effort between an artist and members of the Future Lighting Solutions network. The [...]
Left 4 Dead Game Uses Lighting to Instill Fear and Horror
Hat tip to Jim on Light for this one, courtesy of one of his readers … As a fan of zombie movies, I’ve played this game and I have to tell you the lighting effects do an amazing job at bringing you into its tense, movielike atmosphere. It is one scary ride and lots of [...]
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