Light + Art

Designed by artist Wolfgang Buttress, the “Hive” is a 17-meter-tall, 40-ton steel sculpture built in a meadow. The sculpture houses thousands of honeybees, whose activity triggers LED lights to pulse and sounds such as cello and vocals to emit from speakers. The idea behind the Hive is to raise awareness of the role bees play [...]

For your listening enjoyment: “We’re All Light” by XTC.

Google has introduced a new way to create and engage with immersive artworks. The solution uses a digital brush and connected HTC Vive headset. The user can then paint strokes in air to create just about anything.

For the 2016 Spiral Independent Creators Festival, Akinori Goto created a wire wheel that creates dancing figures when illuminated. The project won Runner-up Grand Prix and the Audience Award.

Check out this engaging and immersive light and sound installation that occurred inside a plane: “Porta Estallar” by PlayMID (Playmodes and MID). The plane itself was installed at Barcelona’s Ciutadella Park as part of an art project to host installations like this. The sequencing suggests interstellar travel, a very cool experience.

The UK’s LIGHTING Magazine recently completed a series of live webcasts, “Masters of Light.” In this series, lighting designers, artists and architects talk about their work, methods and philosophy in one-hour retrospectives hosted by the magazine’s editors. Sign up here to check out the archived episodes.

(may not be suitable for all audiences) Parisian photographer Dani Olivier wanted to do nude portraits that haven’t been done before. He had an idea: use the body as canvas for light projections. The results are quite beautiful. Check it out here.

Interesting look at photos passing through water, enabled by super-fast cameras developed by MIT.

The Austrian City Schärding on the Inn River, right on the border of Germany, had the whole city illuminated with a multimedia spectacular during the last winter season. The bridge crossing the Inn was illuminated as well as the monastery and the water front. As part of the exhibition, the entire city center was covered [...]