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\"Light Show explores how artists working over the past fifty years have used that power to create some of the most innovative and compelling sculpture in contemporary art.\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Light in a Socio-Cultural Perspective
The awareness of \"light\" as both a concept and a phenomenon existed long before it became a matter of scientific interest. This volume investigates the many ways in which light has been conceptualized throughout history. Employing different methodological approaches derived from various disciplines in the humanities, the essays gathered here situate the concept of light within discourses on gender, religion, intellectual life, politics, art, and digital culture. Through diverse perspectives, light is defined - in some cases synchronically - as a physical phenomenon, a visual tool, and a philosophic idea.This book combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light. Through original readings, the contributing authors present a range of scholarly perspectives, offering new interpretations of the idea of light and its history within the humanities.
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Lust for light
Whether it glows lustrously from neon, eminates purely from LEDs or radiates with intensity from lasers, this elemental medium, light, fascinates artists and viewers alike. Lust for Light selects works by artists who have used light as a primary or catalyzing agent in the featured pieces. Taking a dynamic approach in its curation, the book features the use of illumination in more traditional gallery forms as well as in three dimensional and large scale installation pieces. Many of the featured artists are skilled fabricators who have been honing their light-inspired works for years, while others have made stunning pieces through collaborations and daring forays, cross-pollinating their artistic visions with new technologies in the process. Featured artists include Yayoi Kusama, Ivan Navarro, Jennifer Steinkamp, Laddie John Dill, Joanie Lemercier, Massimo Uberti, Barry Underwood, Miguel Chevalier, James Clar, Liz West and many more.--Gingko Press.
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Light and Obscurity in Symbolism
The idea of light and darkness is one of the central ideas of the Symbolist movement, since this is a movement of contrasts. It encompasses the major themes of Symbolism, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, the visible and the invisible, and the divine and the earthly. This volume brings together a range of studies in order to understand the notion of light and darkness and a variety of its Symbolist interpretations. It also stresses the interdisciplinary nature of the concepts of light and darkness in Symbolism, as well as the cohabitation and symbiosis of both, which are together or separately at the core of this movement.
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Image Beyond the Screen
Videomapping with its use of digital images is an audiovisual format that has gained traction with the creative industries. It consists of projecting images onto diverse surfaces, according to their geometric characteristics. It is also synonymous with spatial augmented reality, projection mapping and spatial correspondence. Image Beyond the Screen lays the foundations for a field of interdisciplinary study, encompassing the audiovisual, humanities, and digital creation and technologies. It brings together contributions from researchers, and testimonials from some of the creators, technicians and organizers who now make up the many-faceted community of videomapping. Live entertainment, museum, urban or event planning, cultural heritage, marketing, industry and the medical field are just a few examples of the applications of this media.
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Composition and Contrast: The Painterly Nature of Architectural Exterior Illumination
CIE recommendations for architectural exterior illumination provide general guidelines for highlighting building forms, with emphasis on edges, curvature, and spatial layering. However, they do not explicitly address luminance contrast disposition—specifically, whether elements further from the viewer should appear brighter or if those closer should be more intensely lit. Inspiration for addressing this problem can be drawn from the principles of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, where techniques of working with light evolved from dramatic contrasts to more rational and balanced approaches, offering valuable models for contemporary illumination design. This study compares the principles of painting from that period with eye-tracking and survey-based methods to investigate whether the arrangement of luminance contrasts of illuminated building facades significantly influences viewers’ visual attention, aesthetic judgment, and perception of depth. The verification was conducted in two stages using three lighting variants of a selected architectural object. These variants differed in the luminance contrast distribution between surfaces closer to and farther from the observer, while maintaining a constant average luminance level across the entire façade of 10 cd/m2. The first stage analysed visual reactions of 116 (out of 178) participants to luminance changes across the multi-segmented façade, presented in a darkened room on a luminance-calibrated display. The second stage involved a survey in which 358 participants were asked about their lighting preferences. Participants—including both design professionals and laypeople—exhibited consistent perceptions regarding how different lighting configurations affected their impression of the building. The results revealed that luminance disposition significantly influenced the perceived volume of the structure, particularly the sense of depth. Eye-tracking data also indicated a strong positive correlation between subjective aesthetic assessments and patterns of visual attention.
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Performance projections
Performance Projections explores the dynamic relationship between film and performance, from the origins of film in Europe and the U.S. to examples in the world of contemporary digital media. Although these two forms performance and film have been vitally connected for more than a century, this is the first book to look with originality and depth at their intersection, particularly in relation to issues and theories of space. The rendering of performance into film has been a seminal preoccupation for both performers and film-makers. Film always does far more than document performance; it actively recreates time and space, and overhauls its rapport with the spectators eye and body. Deploying a wide range of examples, many centred on filmic depictions of Berlin but also notably from Japanese and Chinese performance art and street cultures, this book argues that the act of filming has held the enduring power to draw distinctively performative dimensions out of unruly human gatherings, such as riots and political protests, accentuating the outlandish and aberrant aspects of performance. Performance Projectionsspans the special focus on performance of formative moving-image cultures to such contemporary film-making as the often-lethal camera-phone recording of snipers in Syrian cities. It proposes that the future conception of filmed performance now needs to be radically expanded in response to the transformations and flux of contemporary digital cultures.
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