Installed in the heart of the city of Lausanne, Flux Cocoon is one of the winning projects of the the city’s first Light Festival: Lausanne Lumières, which will inaugurate on 23 November.
The project was inspired by its location. Situated at the crossing between vertical and horizontal pedestrian movements (flux). The project is an abstraction of the knot created by the crossing of each pedestrian’s virtual trace at this precise point in the Flon area.
The Flon being the city’s major transportation hub. Lausanne’s topography resulted in creating an amazing cityplan with different ground floor levels; thus it was important for Allegory to create a project visible from a 360° point of view.
Installed in an extremely difficult context, Flux Cocoon is a temporary shelter over the pedestrian bridge and gripped on the vertical elevators’ building.
The project is a created with a primary wood structure and metal cables and 1100m of Red Led Neon Flex lights. The structure sets foot on the existing bridge structure and connects itself to the vertical building containing the elevators.
True to his research focusing on the intersection of image, sound and architecture, CarstenNicolai recently found the perfect place for his art: a vast, empty hall in Milan’s Hangar Bicocca.
The German artist’s Unidisplayinstallation is a monumental 41m-long video projection that showcases his signature minimal aesthetics on a black background.
Like in his other works, image and sound work together in creating an abstract landscape that surrounds visitors, trying to bring them closer to the infinite.
The piece will be on show until 2 December, with a special performance by the artist on 29 November.
An international centre for photographic arts designed to house and exhibit one of the world’s most prestigious collections opens September 29, 2012 in downtown Toronto.
The Ryerson Image Centre (RIC) completes the transformation by Diamond Schmitt Architects of Ryerson University’s School of Image Arts, renovated to accommodate gallery space, curatorial and graduate study centres, state-of-the-art storage vaults and student galleries. The new centre is designed to museum standards of the Canadian Conservation Institute. The windowless former brewery warehouse that housed the school for 50 years is now an open and legible program that engages with the campus and community.
The mainstay of RIC’s inventory – and the impetus to create the centre – is the Black Star Collection: 292,000 photojournalistic images amassed by the New York-based Black Star photo agency from c. 1910 to 1992. The collection was donated anonymously to Ryerson University. RIC brings a new cultural destination to Toronto with an innovative program dedicated to collection, research and public exhibition of photography and related arts.
“In connecting the academic program and the Ryerson Image Centre, we sought to create a crossroads between university life, graduate study and the public realm,” explained Donald Schmitt, Principal with Diamond Schmitt Architects. “A glazed ground floor unifies both programs and creates a welcoming presence, transforming the public square where the campus connects with the city. A transparent, accessible entrance with enormous photo murals marks the entry from the square.”
RIC is a museum-quality facility with main galleries, additional exhibit space in the Great Hall, Entrance Colonnade and Student Gallery. The colonnade features the Salah J. Bachir New Media Wall, a permanent installation visible from the adjacent square. The Mira Godard Graduate Study Centre houses the growing collection of images in a temperature and humidity-controlled vault.
“Creating a state-of-the-art facility for research, storage and exhibition supports RIC in its position as one of the world’s leading centres of photography research and exhibition,” Schmitt added.
The façade has a double-skin glass cladding around the top of the three-storey building that conceals an LED lighting system. This feature won the 2012 AL Light & Architecture Design Award for Best Use of Colour. By day, this opaque glass surface provides a seamless white backdrop to bustling campus life and contrasts the centre’s transparent glazing at ground level. At night, a dynamic display of multi-coloured lights glows in separate panels or in unison, transforming the building into a work of art as a programmable and interactive light installation using an app designed at Ryerson University.
“This is a luminous façade for the 21st-Century, one that’s dynamic and colourful, can be played on with an app and a smart phone, and is made with light – the stuff of photography – to engage and represent this institute to the city,” said Schmitt.
The inaugural exhibition, Archival Dialogues: Reading the Black Star Collection, features eight Canadian artists’ interpretation of the collection. RIC Director Doina Popescu said: “Ryerson Image Centre aims to be the cultural hub of the University and a complimentary voice joining in the arts dialogue taking place in Toronto, in Canada and around the globe.”
La “Light painting photograph” è un forma d’arte che utilizza luci e macchina fotografica, con tempi i posa che possono variare da 5 secondi fino a 5 ore o più, per realizzare immagini senza alcuna manipolazione nella post-produzione, tipo quelli realizzati con Photoshop o altri programmi di fotoritocco.
È anche conosciuta comela pitturadi luce, disegno della luce, scrittura di luce, graffitiluce, luce fotografiaperformance art, LAPP, fotografia e cinetica.
Tutti questinomi sono, inun modo o nell'altro, la fotografia con lunga esposizione apparentemente recente ma con una storia di oltre un secolo, dai primi esperimenti di Étienne-Jules Marey e Demeny Georges Demeny quando nel 1889 realizzarono la prima immagine nota “Pathological walk from in front”, realizzata con alcune lampadine ad incandescenza.
Il primo artista ad esplorare la tecnica della pittura di luce fu Man Ray che nel 1935 realizzò un autoritratto utilizzando un piccola torcia per creare una serie di linee e volute in aria.
Vi si cimentò anche Pablo Ricasso intorno al 1949, dopo aver visto alcune foto di Gjon Mili rimanendone entusiasta, con una torcia cominciò a disegnare in aria producendo poco dopo alcuni disegni di luce, il più noto dei quali fu “Picasso Draws a Centaur”.
Dal 2007, gli artistiJanLeonardoWollerte JörgMiedzahanno iniziato a creareopere d'artecon lo pseudonimo diLAPPLAPP-PRO, che sta perLight FotografiaPerformance Art, una forma di"pitturadi luce" catturandoi movimentidi luce che ricordanocolpi dipennello.
Hanno avutoun grande successo conil loroLight FotografiaArt Performance, tanto che oggi sono sponsorizzatida importanti marchi del settore come Canon, Zeiss, e LEDLenser.
Hanno base a Brema in Germania e creanoimmaginiper clienticommercialicome l'industriagiganteNike,per uno spotperla Coppa del Mondo 2010.
Grandi lenti sferiche inserite negli edifici per aumentare l’efficienzadegli impianti alimentati a energia solare. L’idea geniale, ammesso che funzioni realmente, è proposta da “rawlemon’s ß.torics” creata da “ß studio” dell’architetto tedesco André Broessel che opera a Barcellona in Spagna.
Il sistema assicura un rendimento superiore rispetto ai normali pannelli fotovoltaicifino al 35% in più per un effetto moltiplicatore dell’energia dovuto all’effetto lente dato dalle sfera ripenpit all’interno d’acqua.
Con questo sistema i raggi arriveranno alle celle ad una concentrazione 10.000 volte maggiore, e grazie a questo e grazie ad un sistema di tracciamento ottico, l’impianto potrà essere impiegato anche sfruttando il riflesso lunare, garantendo quindi una produzione nelle ore notturne.
Le sfere solari sono quindi in grado di sfruttare anche la luce diffusa della luna con funzionamento nell’intero arco delle 24 ore giornaliere ed utilizzando due fonti di energia costanti e infinite.
Le possibilità di funzionamento saranno molteplici: oltre a potenziare la concentrazione solare destinata alle celle fotovoltaiche si potrà ricavare energia elettrica tramite il suo utilizzo come impianto solare termico oppure impiegarlo per il riscaldamento dell’acqua.
Ovviamente il sistema dell’architetto André Broessel sta avendo molta attenzione da parte dei media e delle aziende del settore. Risolvere il problema estetico e talvolta paesaggistico del solare termicodovuto all’inestetismo degli impianti ad uso sia domestico che industriale è un obiettivo prioritario nella ricerca tecnologica di molte aziende nel mondo.
È interessante che aririvi una proposta innovativa da parte di un architetto che coniuga un’attenzione ai temi della sostenibilità energetica ad una sensibilità ai temi dell’architettura e del paesaggio con un design pulito ed gradevole che può essere facilmente integrato nei futuri progetti.
Oltre al modello di grandi dimensioni per un utilizzo industriale, lo stesso Broessel ha realizzato mini impianti per l’uso domestico e ulteriori lenti a sfera di grandezza inferiore in grado di offrire un livello di efficienza.
A sensory experience to live, in the heart of a luminous egg, symbol of birth, unity and perfection.
An installation by ACT lighting design (lighting & scenography) and Odeaubois (sculpture) at DITAN PARK Beijing.
The purpose of OVO is to offer an art object, global and multi-sensory in scope, to which a dimension of a luminous event is added, provided by the plays of light and the visual and acoustic animations.
The visitor is invited to walk on the water to reach the interior, as if to vanish into a metaphysical mist.
The watery surface reflects the egg-like structure, the lighting, and also the silhouettes of the visitors which bring the surface to life by their passage.
Seen from inside, the sense of intensity, of being drawn towards the sky, underlines the dynamism conveyed by the forms of the structure.
The framing features a lamellar lattice secured with semicircular lozenges to distribute the tensile forces and allow the use of a poplar wood, a lighter material.
Scenographer marcos vinals was introduced into the project to generate a dynamic setting which culminates with an open ceiling plane to view the sky.
