light
In this seminar, I explored light as tool of art and its effects on human emotions, but also through the scientific literature that explores how it affects our psychological well-being. Thus, the seminar was conducted in two stages. In the first, in collaboration with Negar Kolahi and Timo van Lieshout, I reviewed, analyzed and reproduced two of Olafur Eliasson's pieces. In the second, in collaboration with Kyoung Ho Choi, I set forth to explore the theme of dynamic artificial lighting with the goal to reproduce the characteristic cycle of natural light.
reproducing daylight
Full title: Daylight reproduction through dynamic artificial lighting.
The intention behind this research was to define a dynamic lighting scheme for a specific location that conditions its inhabitants to prolonged stays in unnatural or unhealthy light/dark cycles.
Our methodology, originally proposed for the research, concerned with a specific geographic location – Tromso, Norway. The intention was to recreate the natural light conditions experienced in the Netherlands, during the Spring equinox period by using a dynamic artificial lighting method - the Philips Hue Lights. In the process, we reached the conclusion that recreating these conditions could be beneficial in a wider range of locations, and thus we should firstly succeed in defining a lighting pattern suitable for the human circadian rhythm.
Eventually, our research and experiments did not lead to an unanimous conclusion, but rather that the use of artificial lighting can either satisfy the light intensity cycle or the color temperature cycle, but not both. Thus arrived to two possible cycles, though neither fully matches the original measurements and thus the actual conditions.
The intention behind this research was to define a dynamic lighting scheme for a specific location that conditions its inhabitants to prolonged stays in unnatural or unhealthy light/dark cycles.
Our methodology, originally proposed for the research, concerned with a specific geographic location – Tromso, Norway. The intention was to recreate the natural light conditions experienced in the Netherlands, during the Spring equinox period by using a dynamic artificial lighting method - the Philips Hue Lights. In the process, we reached the conclusion that recreating these conditions could be beneficial in a wider range of locations, and thus we should firstly succeed in defining a lighting pattern suitable for the human circadian rhythm.
Eventually, our research and experiments did not lead to an unanimous conclusion, but rather that the use of artificial lighting can either satisfy the light intensity cycle or the color temperature cycle, but not both. Thus arrived to two possible cycles, though neither fully matches the original measurements and thus the actual conditions.
olafur eliasson - kaleidoscope
Full title: Analysis and reproduction of Eliasson’s
work: a Viewing machine and Your uncertain shadow
It was interesting to step into the author’s shoes in the making of an experience, which is essentially a central piece in Eliasson’s artwork. We chose this combination of projects, because each of them directs the viewer's attention at a different object: the surroundings in the Viewing machine, and one's self in Your uncertain shadow. The reproduction of both pieces allowed us to experience his artwork, and to indeed confirm the importance of the audience in Eliasson's art, further on both projects intrigue and invite the audience to be "playful" and to explore their abstracted environment or silhouette.
It was interesting to step into the author’s shoes in the making of an experience, which is essentially a central piece in Eliasson’s artwork. We chose this combination of projects, because each of them directs the viewer's attention at a different object: the surroundings in the Viewing machine, and one's self in Your uncertain shadow. The reproduction of both pieces allowed us to experience his artwork, and to indeed confirm the importance of the audience in Eliasson's art, further on both projects intrigue and invite the audience to be "playful" and to explore their abstracted environment or silhouette.