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Since a year ago, i have been looking at these three artists works. I really like what they do, the forms they make and the different materials they use, they have really inspired me, especially when i was working on my installation in Prato. I started working with different materials.

Tomas Saraceno

His work with string is remarkable and the scale on how he makes his art is amazing! and how awesome that is is actually fully functional as well, some of the structure can even support a person.






Ernesto Netto

Netto's work has probably been that most influential artist to me. His work with form and different materials has caught my imagination since the first time i saw it. His work still amazes me til now.






Damien Ortega

Damien Ortega's work is really cool! I like he's style, its like he's using the theory of deconstruction in all of his work. Using found objects and just blowing the up! Amazing! Blew my mind first time i saw the Volkswagen beetle just blown up in to pieces! and then the found objects just dangling from the ceiling! awesome!

Why light needs darkness

Rogier van der Heide: Why light needs darkness


This talk really got me thinking. Its not something you think about a lot because we tend to think light is a lot more important, that it gives life and all that. But we tend to forget that darkness is important as well. Its sort of like that theory of Binary opposition, when there's evil there's good, and all that.

He starts giving examples of different architectural answers of light and darkness. It gives you a different perspective when working with light.

Architecture that senses and responds

This talk by Carlo Ratti:Architecture that senses and responds, is really interesting, he starts off talking about his previous works.

He talked about putting microchips in garbage and tracking where the trash goes, and sees that the garbage system in the United States isnt efficient. He then starts talking about his work on this public structure creating a space with water, When someone comes close to the wall made up of water, it opens up to let the user go in with the use of sensors. Brilliant! but i think it was more interesting when he said there was one day where the sensors werent working and the kids of the place started interacting with the water walls in whole different way, which he and his team did not expect.

The last thing he talked about is creating pixels with light. He made a sort of small mechanic fly looking thing that emits light sort of like a pixel. Its really interesting.

Interactive media

This video i found on TED was really interesting. Johnny Lee shows how by using a wii remote you can use its capabilities as a wireless mouse, guiding the cursor with the use of its technology. Really cool, it shows how by just using a wii remote you can use it in many different ways, and even integrate it to different softwares.

United Visual Artists

UVA works a lot with light, they create very interesting installations with are eye catching. Theire work really inspired me on how working with light can create an experience.

UVA - Array

Array is a field of columns set in the courtyard of the Chuya Nakahara Memorial Museum in Southern Japan.

The columns create a field of light and sound, gently shifting in response to the viewers’ movements via a hidden network of ultrasonic sensors. Each column is lit by a pure, shimmering white light. This forest of light light calls you in, and its response to movement invites to explore. Inside the grid lives a spirit, in the form of a single pure red light. This spirit is timid but often playful, revealing itself boldly then disappearing.

Array at YCAM from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

UVA - Chorus

An installation they did in a cathedral.

With Chorus UVA created a kinetic installation that produces a hypnotic performance. Eight tall black pendulums swing back and forth, simultaneously emitting light and sound.

Chorus from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

UVA - Rien a Cacher Rien a Craindre

As the first artists in residence at la Gaîté lyrique in Paris, UVA created Rien a Cacher / Rien a Craindre, a series of responsive light and sound installations that together seduced and unsettled visitors in a unique way.

Exploring the unexamined assumption that digital technology is moving us towards utopia, UVA created a visitor experience simultaneously celebrating and critiquing the brave new world of the digital.







UVA - Speed of Light

Commissioned by Virgin Media, UVA created Speed of Light to celebrate 10 years of broadband Internet.

In April 2010, the installation took over all four storeys of the industrial art-space Bargehouse on the Thames riverside for a period of 10 days. Visitors were invited to immerse themselves in a massive labyrinth of laser sculptures, built on the idea of speed being light, and light
being data.

Speed of Light - United Visual Artists from United Visual Artists on Vimeo.

UVA - Y3

As part of New York Fashion Week 2010, UVA created a light installation for the Y-3 fall 2010 fashion show. A clean, sharp performance was designed for Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto’s innovative Y-3 brand.

Let there be light!

Ingo Maurer
http://www.ingo-maurer.com/

Ingo Maurer has designed a giant Swarovski snowflake that will hang above the street from Harvey Nicols and The Mandarin Oriental Hotel in London. The five-metre snowflake will be turned on by Unicef representative Trudi Styler on Monday, December 8th at 7 p.m. and small replica produced from solid crystal will also be available as a fundraising product. Also designed by Ingo Maurer, the miniature crystal ornament is wonderful tree decoration.




























lichtkunstlicht
lichtkunstlicht.com

These are some of the media installations done by this architecture firm lichtkunstlicht based in germany.

They do really elegant light facades.























Electro light
www.electrolight.com.au

Based in Melbourne, these guys do a lot of intricate light work. Really cool. I ddnt even know they did a lot of the light work around melbourne.

They did work for AAMI, Crown, State theatre of Western Australia, Canberra Centre Shopping Centre Light Sculpture and a whole lot more. Really cool stuff.










































Studio Klink - Mood wall
http://www.studioklink.com/
A cool mood wall they did in amsterdam, underneath a bridge.

























Magic Monkey
http://magicmonkey.net/

If you want to talk about lights + scale + media content! Based in Belgium, Magic monkey are the shiznitz! crazy work.. and the scale of their work is undeniably awesome!






























Realities:United
http://realities-united.de/

Based in Germany, these guys have awesome projects. They work with light a lot as well.

























Led Art
http://led-art.nl/

Based in the Netherlands, these guys are into media installations, working with Led lights and really cool content.
























XAL
http://www.xal.com

Based in Austria, they do more of the lighting solutions than the designs of the space. But you can tell from their work they know what theyre doing! awesome play with lights!


































Holger Mader | Alexander Stublic | Heike Wiermann
http://webblick.de/

Based in Germany, these guys do a lot of exhibitions with the play of light installations and projections.



























Panirama
http://www.panirama.de

Based in Germany, The guys from Panirama deals a lot with projections! big scale to small scale! From projecting on to a cathedral to mobile projection. Pretty cool.

























Architen Landrell
http://www.architen.com

From the UK, the deal more with the lighting fixtures but not the design. They have cool lights though.





















Lab[au]
http://lab-au.com

Based in Belgium, these guys do a lot of installations, they have a vast archive of visual content and design of installations as well. Pretty cool work. HArd to get around their site though, couldnt understand it that much.




































ElectroLand - Cameron Mcnall & Damon Seeley
www.electroland.net

Based in LA, this is a first for me.. i dont usually come across US based installation studios. maybe i just dont know which studio are who. But anyway these guys have cool and colourful works. Some are interactive as well.



















Atelier Derrer
www.atelier-derrer.ch

Based in Zurich, this guys designs installations and the content as well. He plays a lot with projections and lights.




















Haque
http://haque.co.uk

Based in the Uk, they do a lot of cool stuff.

Burble London from haque d+r on Vimeo.

Reconfigurable House from haque d+r on Vimeo.