Voice Array by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Voice Array by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer_
As a participant speaks into an intercom, their voice is automatically translated into flashes of light and then this unique blinking pattern is stored as a loop in the first light of the array. Each new recording pushes all previous recordings one position down and gradually one can hear the cumulative sound of the 288 previous recordings. The voice that was pushed out of the array can then be heard by itself. See more;

Haroon Mirza - \|\|\|\| \|\|\

\|\|\|\| \|\|\ by Haroon Mirza at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen through July 1, 2012.

"\|\|\|\| \|\|\ is not a typing error but the title of a project that is part of a series of works with which Mirza is exploring the idea of site-specificity. He uses architectonic properties of exhibition spaces in various institutions in order to expose them (e.g. shadow gaps or columns). This is done economically and efficiently in that he attempts to achieve the greatest possible effect with the smallest possible intervention in the respective spaces. Mirza started with the show /\/\/\/\ /\ at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, which opened in March. Following the exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen he will conclude the three-part series in May 2012 at the Ernst Schering Stiftung in Berlin with --{}{}{} {}--{}{}{}{}--{}. The cryptic titles are typographical representations of various wave forms. As codes they represent a summary of sound and form that the artist creates in the exhibition spaces." - Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. See more;

Trace Heavens by James Nizam

James Nizam is showing (4 - 26 May, 2012) at Gallery Jones "Trace Heavens", an exhibition consisting in a photograph series about his very impressive geometric light sculptures made using directly the sunlight. I found a really good information about "Trace Heavens" and its process at Canadian Art; 

"The large black and white photographs depict the transformation of darkened rooms into uncanny light sculptures that intersect elegant geometry with math-class daydreaming. Bridling sunlight into streamlined rays via perforated and sliced walls, and with the aid of artificial fog to intensify the slants of light, Nizam creates imagery that might bend our perception of photography."  See more;

Distant Light by Sang Jun

Distant Light, a lighting space installation created by Sang Jun.

"Although light makes everything visible, light itself is not usually noticed because we see things reflected against it. When I look toward the sun, normally, everything in my vision turns into visible and invisible. This is nature's rule: an object is only visible when light reflects it. Under a light source, every subject is illuminated in human perception because light amplifies our vision. Ultimately, relationship between light and shadow becomes the threshold of human perception. Sheer curtain walls move by wind current in a dark room filled with haze. The lights comes from somewhere behind curtain walls, and the light makes the movement of curtains visible. An ambivalent feelings in a dark and hazed space drives the viewers self motivation to discover." - Sang Jun. See more;

Carlo Bernardini

Carlo Bernardini creates fiber optics installations. Bernardini uses the fiber optic since 1996, to transform dark spaces into abstract light environments. His site-specific installations are based on triangular forms, which lines passes through walls, floors, façades and they may be seen floating between buildings. Each installation has its own precise viewpoint, from which it can be seen as a two-dimensional rhomboidal form. Bernardini also works combining steel and optic fibers, to built permanent public sculptures in stainless. See more;

Chris Fraser

Chris Fraser creates awesome light installations using closed and dark spaces as a camera obscura and letting to enter the different lights from the outdoor through a small and thin customized hole on some part of the room. 

"My light installations use the ‘camera obscura’ as a point of departure. They are immersive optical environments, idealized spaces with discreet openings. In translating the outside world into moving fields of light and color, the projections make an argument for unfixed notion of sight." - Chris Fraser. See more;

Network Time by Spiros Hadjidjanos

Network Time is an internet based unit system created by Spiros Hadjidjanos late 2011, it consists of several Wi-Fi routers arranged in the gallery space providing free Internet access to visitors. The LED that reflects the data-traffic of each router is extended along a fiber optic cable magnifying its flicker. Although the devices look only physically modified, the artist has altered the operating system of each router, to manipulate the fluctuation of the fiber optics. See more;

Joshua Sassmannshausen

Deformations over neon light bulbs are always interesting. Check this out, made by Joshua Sassmannshausen last year. Size: 120cm x 2,5cm. See more;

Nervous Structure (field)

Nervous Structure (field) (2012) is the latest interactive projected structure created by Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza. While ago I published one of their first series, but from the same family, Nervous structures, see here.
This one, consists in a structure composed of 144 vertical lines made of elastic is illuminated by a video projector. The viewer motion is transformed into forces affecting the projection. The great moire effect is created because of the own projection the structure and the shadows created on the background. See more;

White Line by Adam Frelin

White Line by Adam Frelin_ 

Fluorescent fixtures and bulbs, steel cable, generator 240' long / 2007 - 175' long / 2009.

"A long line of fluorescent lights were strung along a steel cable spanning the valley between two hills on a cattle ranch in Wyoming. The line of lights slightly bowed to mimic the curve of the valley 50' below. When seen in this natural context fluorescent light is peculiarly similar to moonlight, yet the shadows it created, and the manner in which the valley was illuminated, were almost supernatural in appearance. A similar version was commissioned by the American Embassy for the International House of Japan. "White Line (Tokyo)" functioned like an effects machine, transforming their Japanese garden into an eerie, psychedelic wonderland." - Adam Frelin. See more;

Finnbogi Pétursson

The following projects by Finnbogi Pétursson, are awesome ways to see how beautiful are the patterns, textures and forms created using the water. They have been projected because of the reflection of light on different surfaces, and caused by severals frequencies of sound. See more;

Magdalena Jetelova

"Magdalena Jetelova used illuminated lines to expose communication structure of the landscape; Crossing King's Cross - she uses lights to map out the future path of a train route as well as natural changes (in the Island Project / Islandský projekt – she enlists lasers to draw attention to the undersea intercontinental divide (mountainscape). In her geographical project, Songline 75° 36‘52‘‘ (1998) contemporary localization techniques are used to join two spots on the earth. This is possible thanks mainly to use of the imagination stemming from local traditions." - Lenka Dolanová. See more;

XYZT, Les paysages abstraits

X (horizontal), Y (vertical), Z (depth), T (time). Four letters to describe the motion of a point in the space, and think about an imaginary environment. Mathematical paradoxes, mesmerizing typographies and moving landscapes, all this at this exhibition called "XYZT, Les paysages abstraits" (XYZT The abstract landscapes). Surveying of the digital space, finger algorithms, fields of light... a lot of imaginary territories to explore. A coincidence between geometric and organic, between real and virtual. This is an awesome installation and interactive project created by Adrien M / Claire B and Martin Gautron. See more;

Karl Kliem

Karl Kliem aka Dienststelle is well known for his music installations, where sound and light are connected to create very minimalist environments. I really liked his monochromatic works where he used neons and leds to visualize the sound. He has collaboreted with many different artists such as Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto as well as Jan Jelinek, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner and Sleeparchive. See more;

3Destruct 2011 by AntiVJ

Last October has taken place the Scopitone Festival at Le Lieu Unique in Nantes, France, where AntiVJ has featured a new great installation based on its 3Destruct project. 

Four years ago, in 2007 AntiVJ created its first 3Destruct audiovisual installation for the Biennale d'Art contemporain, in Louvain, Belgium, see here.

3Destruct is an immersive installation, a large semi transparent cube that generates light and sound, and as the visitor walks through, he loses his landmarks in this non-linear universe that destroys any spacial coherence. See more;

PRISMA 1666

PRISMA 1666 is a collaboration project between Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design. It was first exhibited at the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai where it received the Best Creative Design Award.

"In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton conducted a famous experiment that has been widely considered as a landmark discovery in the study of optics and color theory. Inspired by this discovery, PRISMA1666 is an interactive light installation consisting of 15 triangular crystal blocks distributed randomly on a clean white surface. The projection of colorful graphics is refracted and dispersed by these crystal blocks, creating a fascinating visual experience and ambiance. The installation enables interaction with the projected colors, angles, and shapes through a touch interface, creating an opportunity to experiment with these elements like Isaac Newton did so many years before us" See more;

Sinusoidal Waves: F(x) A(y) by Rollin Leonard

Sinusoidal Waves: Frequency(x) & Amplitude(y) by Rollin Leonard_

"SW:FxAy was designed as a large grid of photographs — 36 separate C-prints totalling 102 by 152 cm when arranged in the complete 4 by 9 grid. The subject is me moving like a sine wave, wiggling. Two properties of this wave are adjusted and distributed over the grid — one, the frequency of the wave is arranged from small to large on the x axis and two, the amplitude of the wave is arranged from small to large on the y axis. The photographs were taken by setting the camera to a long exposure and scanning bars of red, blue, and green light over the subject. Different blends of red, blue, and green describe the shape and movement of my body. Given the high amount of trial and error this project required, I have hundreds of biproduct images. Some of those byproduct images are what I use in the video I arranged for Triangulation Blog shown here." See more;

Idan Hayosh

Loving these symmetrical installations by Idan Hayosh. See more;

folds by Robert Seidel

folds by Robert Seidel. Installation comisioned by Lindenau Museum and is also part of Focus Young Art. 2011. The installation consists in 2-channel video, HD, variable loop on 19th century plaster casts of Kladeos, Kephissos, Belvedere Torso, Seer and the Three Goddesses from the Bernhard August von Lindenau Collection.

"This work may be understood as a rapprochement with the history of the museum’s collection of plaster casts. I was particularly interested in the ancient, fragmented bodies – how through the loss of limbs they became almost abstract, fragmentary sculptures and yet still disclosed a nearly uncanny vitality. Also noteworthy is that the collection entails sculptures, Greek in origin, that have been replicated time and time again. Hewn from marble and partially painted in color, the originals were repeatedly copied in marble or plaster in different places across centuries, despoiled of color and slurred in detail." - Robert Seidel. See more;

The Matrix by Kianoosh Motallebi

I absolutely love this lighting sculpture called The Matrix, created by Kianoosh Motallebi in 2010. Consisting in a incandescent lamp fused with a flourescent light. The two otherwise incompatible technologies are forced to operate in the same space, creating a dynamic system that ultimately leads to dysfucnction of both light sources. See more;