Light + Art

Every get a craving to see what lamps look like in an X-ray image? Me neither, but the results are pretty cool. Check out Jim Hutchison’s collection from around the web at JimonLight.com here.

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 [...]

To celebrate the UN-designated Year of Light, the Illuminating Engineering Society is holding a photo contest. From IES: Every month we will announce a “Theme of the Month” to which you will post “lighting” photos related to the chosen theme. You can post as many photos as you wish and at the end of each [...]

The New York Festival of Light (NYFOL) announces New York City’s first annual New York Festival of Light, a three-night event – Thursday through Saturday, November 6 -8, 2014 – that celebrates light, in all of its extraordinary incarnations. New York now joins the ranks of major cities such as Berlin, London, Lyon, Montreal and [...]

Cinimod Studio created an extraordinary LED light sculpture to entertain diners at Caviar House & Prunier at London Heathrow Airport’s Terminal 2. The sculpture, titled “Emergence,” spirals 43 ft. toward the ceiling, with 350,000 LEDs programmed to invoke the choreography of a school of fish. "Emergence" for Caviar House & Prunier, London Heathrow Terminal 2 [...]

Flavorwire’s article, “Beyond James Turrell: 10 More Great Artists Who Use Light as a Medium,” profiles 10 artists whose work is based on light. Check it out here.

While serving aboard the International Space Station Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata used long-exposure photography and a spiral LED top designed by light artist Takuro Osaka to produce interesting light paintings. Click here to see more.

Artist Andela Andrea uses light and materials to create luminous objects and environments that appear surreal, sometimes even alien. Click here to see more.

Spanish light artist Roseline de Thélin creates visually stunning holographic light sculptures and installations. Her projects focus on holographic ethereal beings she calls “Homos Luminosos” (luminous beings) as well as organic forms, all using points of light distributed along optical fibers. She uses the relationship between light and dark to create three-dimensional images that are [...]