Medialab-Matadero Madrid
Light, Space, and Perception · Workshop/working group
Context
The sun’s shadow is the earliest type of projection known to us, and Egyptian and Greek sun dials are the origin of controlled projection. With the advent of artificial light sources, controlled projections were developed, such as shadow plays and magician's illusionary techniques.
In recent history, controlled artificial light sources and their use in photography, the cinema, and moving pictures have multiplied new projection possibilities. These include the use of light as a material to the projection of moving images on a variety of surfaces: buildings used as screens, research in physics on the qualities of light or ways of altering visual perception through controlling light.
Image: Entramado - Plaza de Luz, by Pablo Valbuena
Image: Clandestinos at la Puerta de Alcalá, by Daniel Canogar
Core subjects:
- Light and the city. Urbanism, media-façades, the fusion of physical and digital urban spaces.
- Augmented Reality, the use of projections on three-dimensional surfaces and physical objects, the use of light as a material.
- Set and stage design and the creation of atmospheres through the projection of light: perspective, optical illusions, etc.
- Investigation of the qualities of our visual perception and its limits.
For:
-architects and urban planners interested in the use of light in public spaces
-visual artists
-set and stage designers
-programmers (applications in real time, generative and visualization systems...)
-physicists and specialists in optics
-sociologists, anthropologists
-psychologists, neurophysiologists
-other interested persons
Calendar
The work will be structured through monthly sessions (Thursdays from 4:30pm to 8:30pm) and production workshops (see open call)
Scheduled sessions 2008-2009
April 3, 2008
7 pm: Contemporary Phantasmagories, presentation and lecture by Daniel Canogar (open to the public)
May 22, 2008
4:30 pm: Creating Dynamic Spaces with Projections, mini-workshop by hc gilje
7 pm: Conversations with Spaces, lecture by hc gilje (open to the public)
June 27, 2008
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm: Visit to the works by Paul Friedlander at the máquinas&almas. Arte digital y nuevos medios exhibition, at Reina Sofía Museum.
6 pm - 7:30 pm: Outside Time, lecture by Paul Friedlander at Medialab-Prado (open to the public)
8 pm - 9 pm: Lecture by Theo Jansen, encounters with artists exhibiting at máquinas&almas. Arte digital y nuevos medios. Museo Reina Sofía
October 30, 2008
Julian Oliver: Perceptual Play: Optical Illusion Art as Radical Interface
(4:30 pm: mini-workshop / 7 pm: talk)
November 6, 2008
7 pm: The Long Here, the Big Now, and other tales of the networked city, lecture by Adam Greenfield
December 18, 2008
4:30h: Gathering of work groups to present and discuss the selected proposals
7 pm: Light, more Light! From Goethe to Las Vegas, talk by Félix Duque
January 8 -11, 2009
Workshop I: Presentation of selected proposales and fist stage of prototype development [+info]
March 26, 2009
7 pm: Fluid Arquitectures, lecture by Susanne Jaschko.
March 27 - 29, 2009
Workshop II: Second stage of prototype development [+info]
More information:
Architecture:
Visual Arts:
Set Design:
Robert Wilson
Programming:
Johnny Chung Lee
videobjects - http://www.electricmoons.com/videoobjects/videoobjectsbugs.htm