its use is rare if one excepts the slightly moving tiny image on credit cards. The objects displayed are sometimes dubious (lots of scary images, monsters). however, holography remains as fascinating as complex. Michael Page has been producing and studying holography at OCAD, U of T and in his studio […]
By providing rare examples of experimental films, Bruce Elder showed how light can be manipulated to create radically different results and how it can be interpreted and filtered through the personal experience of the artist. Light is primal, experiential and outside of language, almost a sacred energy, something that takes […]
Marko Ciciliani is a composer and performer working with the experimental group “Bakin Zup” Interested in the intersection of light (especially electricity) and sound, he was surprised to see how different audience would react to the same composition. Although his work uses light as an extension of musical parameters in […]
These pieces are the result of an assignment on “light” for the “modern physics” course at the Ontario College of Art and Design. after having explained to art students some scientific basics Robin Kingsburgh asked them to conduct practical experiments and to devise a conceptual elaboration that drew from the […]
The prospective shaman lives in the darkness for the first years of his life. only then s/he is allowed to experience life. in this way, s/he is encouraged to direct the introspection inside. For Philip Ross, practicing a metaphorical endoscopy (nothing to do with the medical procedure), in this context, […]
maybe an odd association, Jason Baerg’s northern lights, Jayanne English outreach pictures of the sky and Nada Boustany visualization of cell death have a lot to share after all: they both try to interpret and reconstruct narratives originating from the sight and the impression of light. they meet under the […]
“…In 2008, where each year parcels of the Antarctic Ozone hole move over the southern part of Australia, our relationship with the visible and the invisible electromagnetic soup in which we live becomes much more complex.” By invoking the notion of Synchresis, Melinda Rakham illustrates how, in Australia maybe more […]
in a different context but in a similar vein, Pixy, by Natasha Roussel and Experientiae Electricae seek to use light to materialize a full, tri-dimentional material object. The “light space modulator,” moholy nagy’s work , well highlighted in his 1930 film suggests that “light will be the medium of the […]
if friday afternoon had focused on light as a naturally occurring essential phenomenon to which organisms respond, as well as produce, saturday morning was the turn of light as a constructed item that can be recreated to enrich the urban landscape. Like in the thursday short film, artificial light comes […]
here are some pictures from friday performance. Diane Landry’s “DJ” performance featuring found objects instead of discs and a few pictures from “le mariage”, and “Genesis” by Art Clay. A Basel based composer and artist, and former student of John Cage, Clay produces machines and music pieces that draw from […]
if the monarch butterfly is compelled to travel towards light, the bioluminescent plants Diane Willow encountered off the coast of Main while on a MIT residence are reacting by emitting light. These organisms constitute a fluid light medium that could be stimulated. Being this stretch of coast an area isolated […]
Light is energy. for Timothy Weaver, it is a triggering element that stimulates reactions from all sorts of living beings. so is for the monarch Butterfly, whose biological morphology is stimulated and directed by light. every year, thousands of Monarch Butterflies embark in a 3 months journey from the US […]
The immateriality and uncertainty that characterizes light requires sometimes elaborate efforts to capture and represents it in its complexity or to domesticate it to fit certain standards or to perform certain specific tasks. in its ephemerality, light is comparable to time, with its non-linear flow. Western civilization has done almost […]
If, as in Hiebert’s observations, light fades into darkness, darkness contains light and vice-versa, then, light is both one and its opposite. isn’t it the story that is also told us by quantum mechanics? light is both particles and waves, while active viewing causes light to change its behavior. the […]
“Light is not merely what appears”: using Plato’s allegory of the Cave as a starting point, and drawing from his own photographic work, Ted Hiebert identifies the paradoxes that characterize the capture of light, in photography, revealing hidden elements that tend to disappear during the immediate or direct observation. recalling […]
….and Goethe’s theory of light and color based on Newton’s seemed to be a first common thread. At least, his theories and observations seemed to recur, directly or indirectly, in a number of presentations Second, maybe less noticeable but definitely strong, is the indeterminacy and the ephemerality of light. Light […]
INTRO light is everywhere, it is used in every discipline, it is used to observe scientific experiments, in theatre, studio photography etc… metaphorically speaking, it holds many meanings: light not only stands for reason and clarity of mind, but also for religious revelation and divinity. it does not merely beautify, […]
welcome back to Subtle Technologies! like last year, I will try and give you a detailed account on what’s on at Subtle tech, “almost” in real time (please, be patient, this year I will be subtle tech MC. given my proximity with the presenters, I will have lots of extra […]
