Archived entries for light
Carsten Nicolai
unicolor 2014
“the installation unicolor examines the psychology of color perception..”
Thompson and Craighead
light from tomorrow
It centres on an expedition to The Kingdom of Tonga, where tomorrow’s outdoor light-readings are broadcast in close to real time through The International Dateline to today; specifically to a lightbox installed in the San Jose Museum of Art in California.
Simon Weckert
In the shadow of the darkness
The two objects are pointing to the moon and the sun. The LED lights represent the movement and the brightness of the two planets as seen from the centre of the earth in real-time.
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Jacob Kirkegaard
London Subterraneous
takes the work of seventeenth century alchemist and scientist Athanasius Kircher as inspiration. Kircher was a polymath and inventor, who researched fields as diverse as medicine and Egyptology, and designed and constructed wondrous sound and vision automatons.
Herwig Kempinger
Untitled, 1991
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Amy Theiss Giese
Concealed at first at last I appear
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Cornelia Parker
The Collected Death of Images (detail), 1996.
Reclaimed silver from photographic fix.
Gottfried Jäger
Concrete Photography
photography-now
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August Strindberg
Celestographs, 1894
Placing his photographic plates on a window sill
or perhaps directly on the ground and letting them
be exposed to the starry sky.
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MATERIAL LIGHT
Jack Hirons
Silver Loop – B&W 16mm Film, Looped
MATERIAL LIGHT is an exhibition of comtemporary and historical works which examine the material nature of the photographic image.
Now Light, where it exists, can exert an action, and, in certain circumstances, does exert one sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.
Fox Talbot
Chris McCaw
Sunburn
In this process the sun burns its path onto the light sensitive negative….
The resulting negative literally has a burnt hole in it with the landscape in complete reversal.
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Joachim Sauter
The installation references a form of communication that has almost been consigned to oblivion: the use of a mirror and sunlight to exchange information over long distances.
Trevor Paglen
Trinity Cube (2015)
Irradiated broken glass collected from inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone forms the outer layer of this sculpture. The work’s inner core is made out of Trinitite, the mineral created on July 16, 1945 when the United States exploded the world’s first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, heating the desert’s surface to the point where it turned surface sand into a greenish glass.
semiconductor
Play of Light
The digitally animated shadows are projected onto
two interior rough concrete walls, which mirror each other
Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt
Thomas McIntosh
Ondulation
is a composition for water, sound and light.
It employs a two ton pool of water which is set into motion using sound.
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Blake Gordon
Cloud Projections
The geometric effects of light pollution in Austin, Texas,
capturing thinly defined shapes in the clouds, projected
upward from the tops of buildings.
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Jesper Jonsson
Movement of a Moment
dynamic light concept that shows traces of time
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Random International
Study Of Time / I, 2011
Progressing from the monumental stage set to the immediacy of an artwork, the installation can explore and re-interpret the age-old relation between falling light, shadow and time.
Germaine Kruip
The Wavering Skies by Germaine Kruip. A slow moving shadow is created by 300 computer-controlled halogen lamps hung above a translucent fabric ceiling.
Light & Jelly
“Light & Jelly” is series of lamps cast in jelly
by Le Creative Sweatshop and
photographed by Fabrice Fouillet.
Jim Sanborn
Notom, Utah, 1995
Topographic Projections
