Origin junio 19, 2012

Origin is the latest development in UVA’s exploration of large-scale responsive LED sculpture.  As part of The Creators Project New York event, UVA have created Origin, a responsive installation meant to explore our society’s acceptance of a technocratic life form.

Hedged between the two Bridges on Brooklyn’s shore, a 10m x 10m cube of light both disrupts and reflects the City, eliciting an emotional reaction from those that enter its realm. Origin is the culmination of a series of works derived from Orchestrion, the main stage design created by UVA for Coachella 2011.

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L.E.D. Surfer junio 13, 2012

Fashion photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton swaps the studio for the slopes of Tignes in the Rhône-Alpes region of south-eastern France, with a luminous after hours short starring Artec pro snowboarder William Hughes. The electrifying film sees Hughes light up the snow-covered French hills in a bespoke L.E.D. -enveloped suit courtesy of designer and electronics whizz John Spatcher.

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Projection One junio 8, 2012

Projection One is an interactive art installation that was recently unveiled at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Conceived and built by Andrew Payne and fellow GSD student, Eddy Man Kim, Projection One strives to challenge the way in which users perceive projection art.

We started by changing the projection surface.  Our idea was simple – take the traditional screen and cut it up into strips of variable widths.  Then rotate those strips to create a three dimensional surface; adding depth to create a more volumetric or spatial experience out of the projection schemes.  The overall surface measured approximately 13′(length) x 9′(height) x 3′(depth).

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LED candles junio 7, 2012

During milan design week 2012, german-born, london-based new media designer moritz waldemeyer presents his LED candles, showcasing the soft lighting pieces in a threaded chandelier, as well as scattered throughout the space as candlesticks.

Each ‘candle’ is an individual unit, comprised of a custom-designed 250-LED panel and circuitry. waldemeyer explained to designboom that he programmed the behaviour of the ‘flame’ based on video footage of actual candles, converting the moving imagery to pixel data and working with a software engineer to code each individual LED to reflect the movement of the flame, achieving an extremely realistic representation. from a slight distance or in darkened settings, the pixels meld together and the top of the lighting unit disappears, leaving only a virtual flame visible and flickering atop a candle-like form.

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Nervous Structure (field) junio 4, 2012

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La más reciente instalación de Cupetelli & Mendoza Nervous Structure (field), nos muestra lo mejor de las cualidades de la luz como medio entre el humano y lo visual. Se trata de una instalación lumínica interactiva en donde al acercase el espectador, una cámara de video capta su imagen y traduce sus movimientos en fuerzas que afectan a la proyección a través de un sistema de simulación física.