great balls of (fire) and light!

I like balls... yes i do...

I especially like them when they're all strung up and lit up in a spectrum of pretty colors! (what on earth were you thinking?!)






check out Mark Reigelman's outdoor installation at the cleveland museum of art just in time for their summer solstice event. Entitled "White Cloud", the installation features 100 eight-foot weather balloons strung up to resemble clouds and come nightfall, colors are projected onto them so they look like pretty marbles!




Similarly, Light Play an urban installation by Michael Levine and KPMB for the Luminato Festival in Toronto back in 2008, has taken the whole concept of lighted chinese lanterns to a whole new level.. absolutely gorgeous!!!

floating presence

Created by Spanish designers Luzinterruptus, Floating Presence is the last of a series of public light interventions featuring 80 lit beings inhabiting the rivers in the eastern mountains of la mancha.

both surreal and creepy, the installation almost seem like traces of a journey through the town and brings to mind the idea of death and how spirits travel across the river to the underworld... for a pop cultural reference, think of the scenes in 'clash of the titans' where Perseus and gang head down to the underworld to look for Medusa.

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Prism Liquid

Canon's neoreal installation at the Milan design week is simply amazing.. the structure reminds me of a glacier and the projections look like the reflections and refractions of light on water/ice. wow...the calibration of the projection must have been intense....

Designed by Akihisa Hirata and Kyota Takahashi:

"...the space is structured as a polyhedron, which glows in various prism-like colors. the lights flicker and move just as if water was flowing, changing their shape several times. two opposite concepts - static and dynamic, concrete and abstract, input and output - coexist in one world. the polyhedral screens are arranged in a sprial that is connected three-dimensionally, in which a world of new images comes to life through the colorful lights created by takahashi which are projected onto the larger-than-life construction (almost 6 m high, 8 m wide, 40 m deep) by akihisa hirata. the technical details behind the installation are possible through canon digital imaging technologies. the images which are seen have been taken with a digital single lens reflex camera and are projected in many colors, through 21 projectors on several polyhedral screens."

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:: geek chic ::

First blog entry and we're going geek!

Here are some interactive digital artworks/projects that I find rather intriguing. I like how the use of technology brings another dimension to your experience of art - it's kinda like how Jeff Koon's blow up dog came to life in "Night at the Museum II". I'm sure that at some point in our lives, we all had that moment where we wished that an art work would come to life and interact with us. (or maybe that's just me - I always wondered what it'd be like to have a conversation with Mona Lisa!)


Cinimod Studios is a cross-discipline practice based in London specializing in the fusion of architecture and lighting design. It was started by the architect Dominic Harris, whose passion for interactive art and lighting design has produced built projects now found across the international art and architecture scene.

'Flutter’ is a new interactive artwork that explores the viewer’s encounter with a rabble of virtual butterflies. Flutter consists of a linear array of 88 vertical double-sided video fins projecting from a mirrored surface. Butterflies flash through these screens on virtual flight paths, visible for fleeting moments as the light irridesces off their wings. (seen at the recent Kinetica Art Fair in London)

To celebrate the launch of the UK’s first Restaurant and Bar Awards, Cinimod Studio was commissioned to create an outdoor interactive lighting installation. Conceived as an exploded blank canvas, the huge “exploded globe of light” was suspended from the trees over London’s famed Hoxton Square and was interactively controlled by the guests.

Over the past 10 years, artist Roseline De Thelin has been working with light as a medium and subject. Her ethereal installations explore all aspects of the medium - reflection, refraction, fragmentation and transparency (we're one step away from a full-blown PoMo reading here) Recently seen at the Kinetica Art Fair, Roseline's Homos Luminosos brings to mind Star Trek/Close encounters of the 3rd kind and the like. Fascinating stuff!

Speaking of Mona Lisa, Korean artist Lee Lee Nam uses digital technology to bring to life some of our most loved classics. Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring sheds a tear as she looks out at you, seemingly communicating her melancholy (which if you watched the movie of the same name, it totally makes sense). And yes, the Mona Lisa features in his body of work as well. In his parodic take of the enigmatic beauty, Nam puts the Mona Lisa in the midst of war as helicopters and parachutes rain down upon her.