Tag: kinetic light

  

Title: Rip

Project Description:

Rip is a kinetic light project, built and developed upon the idea of “abstration art” and “time and speed”. Audience should experience Rip in a room of total darkness so that people can get a more direct idea of space rip as the light appearing and disappearing. The project is intended to be self-explaining and intriguing with its movement and basic shape of rects.

Rip is of a easel scale. It is two-layered with the bottom layer of light source and the top layer of lots of rectangles forming a puzzle plane to prevent the light. Light source are digital light stripe. Lights are coded according to different rectangles. They are intended to form different light patterns with the movement of the rectangles. Kinetic part of the project is conducted by 12 solenoids which are coded to push back and force to control how many lights are shining out round the shape of the rect being pushed out (how thick the light strings are). The time and speed of pushing out the rects are somewhat random. Which rects are pushed out is also unexpected by the audience. There would not be any music except for the sound of soldnoids.

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Perspective and Context:

In the article of Century of Kinesthesia, the author discuss the “field of abstraction” in which he refers to several conceptual artwork that do not try to explain something beyong what it is.  “Object with red ball “, for example, plays around with things in the universe, which is “obviously models of universe”. How artworks are valued is based on the feelings conveyed rather than over interpretation.

Alexander Calder

In the section of “Lineal and cyclical(or speed and stability)”, GuyBrett talks about the instability revealed through time and speed, which he refers to as “one of the achievements of  kinetic light”. “Kinetic” and “sculpture” seems to have a charm when are are combined together.

Esther Stocker

Esther Stocker is an Italian Artist who is really good at visualizing the concept of space through basic shapd like rects and lines. I like the way he simply place several rects on the black board and gives space to imagination and feelings of real time. The different layer of the rects gives an intention of moving while being static.

Project Description:

Inspired by these concepts and artists, I got the idea of building a sculpture integrating both the idea of “abstration art” and “time and speed”. The project is intended to be self-explaining and intriguing with its movement and basic shape of rects.

The project would be of a wall scale. It would be two-layered with the bottom layer of light source and the top layer of lots of rectangles forming a puzzle plane to prevent the light. Each rect would be conneted to the bottom layer through springs and would also be connected to the soldnoids. The soldnoids would then be coded to push the rects out of its puzzle plane and then allows light to shine out around the shape of the rect being pushed out. The time and speed of pushing out the rects would be somewhat random. Which rects would be pushed out would also be unexpected by the audience. There would not be any music except for the sound of soldnoids.

Production Schedule

• 04/30 (tue) – Material preparation+draft test
• 05/02 (thu) – Physical part developing(finish the physical part by the end of the week )
• 05/07 (tue) – Light testing
• 05/09 (thu) – Adjusting(have the model finished by the end of the week)
• 05/14 (tue) – Pre-Final Critique
• 05/16 (thu) – Project 3 Presentation
• 05/23 (thu) – Project 3 Blog Post Due

Title: My Universe

Author: Yanran Bi(Candy)

Date: April 17,2019

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Project: Aurora

Team members: Louis, Skye

Process: Unlike LED strips we use before, DMX is way bigger. Considering the fact that it could give a bigger range of light on the wall yet could only light up one color at one time, we decided to imitate Aurora in nature. I have only seem aurora online, so I feel really excited. We googled online and download a image of aurora and put it in AI to get the color index of it. We found that it is usually green accompanied by some sort of purple, yellow and blue. These color later became the color we used to code.

The project has stages: pure green fading in and out, green and blue, green, blue and purple, green, yellow and blue. We made the DMX light in the middle a little taller than the other two so that together they could create an effect of light moving around. Each color differs slightly in how bright it is and how fast it fades so that the light would not be too statistic but rather more organic. Initially, we were thinking about having the light mapping all over the room, yet found that way we might lose the part of two color mix together.

To match the visual part, we found a light music that also create an atmosphere of relaxing and pleasant.

Overall, we were happy with what we got for this project shows a possibility of a grand light show if we could have more DMX lights being controlled. We are really excited if we could change the entire room into a live aurora show. The experience of lying in the coach on 9th floor, watching the lights fading in and out with all the lights closed at night is an impressive and touching memory.