B&W Chandelier by Winnie Lui
Jewelery designer turned lighting designer, Winnie Lui constructed her chandelier out of toys and other everyday objects, making a unique and beautiful lighting fixture that certainly isn’t “everyday”. A fairy world.
White Chandelier
Black Chandelier
Contributed by Natalia P.
Lightbotz
lighting artist and designer Marcus Tremonto created a limited edition collection of the legendary munny and dunny toys called Lightbotz for Kidrobot. A devoted collector himself and a pop culture addict, Tremonto took inspiration from the over 20 years of collecting vintage toys, video games and sci fi/futuristic films.
Light in the world of Tim Walker
Walker’s images evoke a sublime moment in time, evoking a sense of epic drama and beauty. The sets in which his pictures are captured are lavish locations which are juxtaposed against the everyday, mixed with the slightly absurd and outrageous. His photographs tell a narrative which is derived from an imagination which most of us have left behind in our childhood. He presents to his viewer a glimpse into his own imagination, his work reminding us of our capacity to dream the unthinkable.
Tara Donovan: transforming everyday object under light
Styrofoam Cups
Styrofoam Cups
Styrofoam Cups
Mylar
polyester film
Greenpix Zero Energy Media Wall
The Greenpix Zero Energy Media Wall is the world’s largest color LED display, and has a self sustaining energy life-cycle. Harvesting sunlight collected during the day via photovoltaic solar cells, the wall uses stored solar energy to light up the LED’s for a spectacular nighttime show.
Interactive Wall turns Shadow into Light
The Strømer, is an interactive LED display wall that weaves a wonderful mixture of art, energy-efficiency and play into the fabric of daily existence. It is 27m2 of interactive LEDs provide light for each person passing by.
Click to see it in action on video!
蔡國強 Cai Guo-Qiang: the Light in the night, the Darkness in the day
In the spirit of Chinese New Year celebration, this week’s Work of Light presents the Fire_work of Chinese artist, Cai Guo-Qiang 蔡國強.
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian, China. He was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theater Academy from 1981 to 1985. Cai’s work is scholarly and often politically charged. Cai initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppressive, controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, Cai explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a massive scale and the development of his signature “explosion events,” artistically choreographed shows incorporating fireworks and other pyrotechnics.
This is Cai Guo-Qiang’s recent dance collaboration with Taiwanese dance group, Cloud Gate dance company. The piece is called Wind Shadow.
Tim Noble and Sue Webster: Shadow sculpture
Shadow sculptures by Tim Noble and Sue Webster plays with light’s function of revealing. However, they serve it with a twist. Spot light seems to shine on a seemly randomly piled heap of trash, as if saying “look at these trash!” The hidden art is actually revealed in the play of light and shadow.
Is what we see really what we think?
Tim Noble and Sue Webster began collaborating during their studies at Nottingham Polytechnic and studied together at the Royal College of Art. Appropriating the guerrilla tactics adopted by media-hungry celebrities’ attempting to gain fame, Noble and Webster’s unorthodox creations comment on a consumerist society gripped by narcissism. The artist duo is renowned for their series of drawings and their neon and light sculptures which embody the simultaneously glamorous and seedy aspects of contemporary culture. Noble and Webster’s work is held in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Saatchi Collection, London.
Light Painting by Picasso
Master at work with torch in 1949.
These painting was taken by Gjon Mili, a photographer for LIFE magazine.
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