Light painting diciembre 30, 2009

Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza, from Bremen, Germany, are the creators of these amazing light paintings. Light painting, also known as light drawing or light graffiti is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a hand-held light source or by moving the camera (wikipedia).

We can recorder the first experiments with light realised by Picasso and Gjon Mili in 1949.

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Chorus diciembre 30, 2009

Chorus’, UVA’s kinetic installation with sound by Mira Calix, recently featured in Artichoke’s‘Lumiere’in the world heritage site of Durham Cathedral. An array of motor-assisted pendulums weaves through space emitting light and sound. The rhythm of the work evolves through chaos and returns to unison, producing a hypnotic and seductive performance that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the space and their relationship with it. More than 75,000 people visited the festival, over the 4-day period.

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