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Winners of the IES Illumination Awards 2022
We are proud to announce that Digital Ambiance & One Hand One Hat have won the Illumination Award for Lighting Control Innovation for Heaven's Staircase
Vote for Us for SXSW Panel Picker 2023!
SXSW PanelPicker Voting is Open for 2023! Please consider voting for Digital Interactive Placemaking! DIGITAL INTERACTIVE PLACEMAKING The practice of Digital Placemaking through lighting has transformed dramatically in recent years, with technology such as...
‘Circle of Life’ by Limelight
"As a philosophical concept, the circle of life means that we start at the end and end in the beginning. Our lives, from beginning to end, resemble a complete full circle. No matter how big or small the circle is, it ends in the exact same way for everyone. It’s...
‘CUPID’S KOI GARDEN’ by ENESS
"Cupid’s Koi Garden is the world’s first inflatable fountain: a fantastical artwork that emerges from your ordinary vista like a mirage. The installation is a combination of classical statues depicting cupid and formal civic fountains and is a statement about the...
“Cimbalom Circle” by Daily Tous Les Jours
"Cimbalom Circle is part of Daily’s Musical Pavement series that brings a new musical dimension to cities. These artworks live permanently in urban architecture to stimulate the emergence of new gathering habits and opportunities for a wide audience to play music...
‘The Colour Bath at Tokyo;s Shinjuku Station’ by Moment Factory
"Inspired by Shinjuku’s many facets, The Colour Bath is a large-scale, multi-purpose multimedia ecosystem that transforms the passage into an immersive passenger experience. Our goal was to inject the complex environment with a calming energy that puts passengers at...
‘Data Eye of Wangjing’ by Ouchhh
"Data Eye of Wangjing is a new public art sculpture that is created using data to art various aspects of life in Beijing. Different sets of environmental data such as air quality, CO2 transmissions and city traffic are translated onto the rotating LED panels, using...
Episode 026: David Glicksman
Hey guys, welcome back to the Luminous Arts! I spend the next hour and a half talking to a good friend of mine, David Glicksman. He’s the Director of Creative Technology at Gensler’s DxD department in LA. They’re doing some really next-level installations in some...
‘Chinook Arc’ by Joe O’Connell & Blessing Hancock
"Chinook Arc is an interactive, illuminated sculpture that reflects our impressions of the Beltline neighborhood as a well defined, confident and vibrant community. The form draws inspiration from the historic Beltline Streetcar loop that once encircled the...
“Memory Cloud” by RE:site
"Memory Cloud explores the embodiment of shared traditions of movements. An ethereal constellation of light expresses the dynamic pulse of Texas A&M University campus life, making students both viewer and subject. Moving patterns of light are abstracted from...
Episode 025: Nathan Lachenmyer
In this episode, I sit down with my friend Nathan Lachenmyer to talk about his work as a creative technologist. He started his career at MIT, in my hometown of Boston, which is actually how I met Nathan in the first place. Nathan is a super talented creator and he’s...
‘Chroma Flow’ by James Tapscott & Light Application
"Chroma Flow is an evocative perceptual experience using an environment-responsive and interactive lighting system throughout the length of an underpass. The utilitarian space, comes alive with immersive fields of colour which shift throughout the day, in synch with...