This event was centred around the theme of Light. How do artists use Light as an artistic medium? Why do they feel it important to their practice? And how does it help to communicate their ideas to a wider audience?
Four artists were invited to speak about their practice. The artist duo Edward Shuster and Claudia Moseley are conceptual artists who work with sculpture and installation. Their practice explores the nature of perception and embodiment, investigating light-time, technological mediation and the instrumentation of optics and geometry.
Just as Shuster and Moseley are interested in light as a scientific phenomenon so was the next artist speaker Paul Friedlander and the visual links between their work were very strong. Paul Friedlander is a light artist who first trained as a physicist. He became fascinated by art involving the use of movement and light in the late 1960s. In 1983 he made an important discovery of the chaotic properties of spinning string and invented chromastrobic light 'light that changes color faster than the human eye can see'.
Tom Wilkinson is a kinetic and light sculptor and also draws inspiration from physics and metaphysics. His works are in constant state of change just like Paul Friedlander’s pieces. Stemming from an early fascination with illusion and movement, Tom Wilkinson's work explores aspects of perceptual art. He uses wind power and electric motors to play with persistence of vision and kinetic energy.
Aphra Shemza’s works are also in motion but her sculptures are interactive and are controlled by the viewer; it is through their presence that the works come to life creating active participation. Working with abstraction, interactivity and light Shemza seeks to express herself through radical new technologies. Shemza’s work explores the way in which we might use these tools to imagine what the role of art could be in the future.
Four artists were invited to speak about their practice. The artist duo Edward Shuster and Claudia Moseley are conceptual artists who work with sculpture and installation. Their practice explores the nature of perception and embodiment, investigating light-time, technological mediation and the instrumentation of optics and geometry.
Just as Shuster and Moseley are interested in light as a scientific phenomenon so was the next artist speaker Paul Friedlander and the visual links between their work were very strong. Paul Friedlander is a light artist who first trained as a physicist. He became fascinated by art involving the use of movement and light in the late 1960s. In 1983 he made an important discovery of the chaotic properties of spinning string and invented chromastrobic light 'light that changes color faster than the human eye can see'.
Tom Wilkinson is a kinetic and light sculptor and also draws inspiration from physics and metaphysics. His works are in constant state of change just like Paul Friedlander’s pieces. Stemming from an early fascination with illusion and movement, Tom Wilkinson's work explores aspects of perceptual art. He uses wind power and electric motors to play with persistence of vision and kinetic energy.
Aphra Shemza’s works are also in motion but her sculptures are interactive and are controlled by the viewer; it is through their presence that the works come to life creating active participation. Working with abstraction, interactivity and light Shemza seeks to express herself through radical new technologies. Shemza’s work explores the way in which we might use these tools to imagine what the role of art could be in the future.
