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‘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...
‘CYCLE’ by Serge Maheu
"CYCLE is an artwork that was inspired by astronomy principles, such as the Saros cycle that predicts the movement and eclipses of the Moon and Sun. The circle-shaped structure diffuses two rings of light, inwards and outwards, which recalls the diffuse circular light...
‘Dynamo’ by Studio Daniel Canogar
"Studio Daniel Canogar presents one of its most ambitious projects to date: Dynamo, a suspended artwork created for the atrium of the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Dubai 2020. Created in collaboration with the sound artist Francisco López, and produced In collaboration...
‘City Bloom’ by Zebbler Studios & Pamela Hersch
"Inspired by a local flower store, this animation created by Boston-based artist Zebbler, grew from a single projection to a building-wide video texture over the course of a few months. With verdant bursts of flowers, vines and branches slowly growing over the...
Episode 024: Christopher Bauder
Christopher Bauder, the founder of White Void, was one of the people that I had in mind when I started the Luminous Arts podcast. I was in Berlin for the Touch Designer Summit when I first saw his work. It was a performance called Skalar and it was being shown in an...
‘Matrix Paris’ by Erwin Redl
"These colors delineate the visible color spectrum as well as the spectrum of our human emotion with red as the most sensual color and blue as the cool, rational counterpoint. The corporeal intensity of the immersive aesthetic experience combined with the underlying...
‘Flux’ by Collectif Scale
"Flux is made up of 48 dynamic lines of light 1.5 m long, spaced 40 cm apart, motorized and controlled in real time. The formal multiplication of these lines coupled with micro variations of phases, time delays, speeds, and amplitudes allows us to sculpt an object 20m...
‘Virtual Sky’ by Narduli Studio
"VIRTUAL SKY is a realtime LED light sculpture that spans the two large public atriums of the city’s new Convention Center. Thin cylindrical anodized titanium forms create a 3 Dimensional environment that simulates the movement of the Oklahoma Sky. The palette evokes...
‘Infinite Bloom’ by Leo Villareal
"For Amorepacific’s headquarters, Leo Villareal has devised Infinite Bloom, a 36 meter wide by 26 meter deep array of LED lights containing approximately 22,000 individually address, monochromatic LED nodes. Installed in the area above the 5th floor garden, this...