Final Show Prototype
In final show, I will project this video on Transparent Screen to create 3D light environment in a sealed dark room. There are three or four Transparent Screens will be lined up 4 feet away from each other, the projector will display video on all of them and create multiple effects, which can make the changes of looks real and vivid
Erwin Redl’s light installation
The distinction between art concerned with meaning and art as that which enables experiences has become obvious in digital arts. Rather than expressing the meaning of art work, digital artists prefer to provide real feeling and experiencing in their works. Thus, the role of audience are more active, from “viewing” art work to get real “feel” experience. Viewers can have an active influence and experience of creating meaning on information or art works by adding to it or changing it.
Erwin Redl used light-emitting diode (or LED) to deploy a light environment in both two and three dimensions to affect visitor’s senses. By redefining interior and exterior light space, he produced a system of perpetual repetition art work which is no denouement just keep ebbing and flowing.He aimed to examine how his light installation affects viewer’s bodies and senses.
Your space embracer, 2004
A harsh beam of light was directed to shine through a dangling mirrored ring. As the ring turned, a halo of light traveled in a slow-motion promenade across walls and ceiling. Seeming to encompass the space, the circular light morphed into a rectilinear shape as it traversed the room’s angular corner.
Space Embracer from 2004 continues to manipulate and alter light, albeit on a less immersive scale. It uses stage spotlights to beam light through spinning acrylic rings that refract wildly geometric imagery throughout the room. The light directly at the center of the projection forms a perpetually undulating eye of shifting circular color, away from the center, spiraling lines of light blaze sleek designs across the walls.
A feast for the eye—Bridget Riley’s painting
In the last tutorial, Andy recommended Bridget Riley’s painting to me. He showed some of her light-dark contrast paintings that have disturbing and disorientating optical effects, yet they are undeniable and surprising beauty. These amazing visual effects of her geometric forms made her work celebrated. The reason Andy recommended this to be one of my project references is to let me think about how to make video has rhythm and dynamic.
Bridget Riley is concerned with what she terms the “formal structures of seeing”, she trusts the evidence provided by her eyes rather than the conventional schemes of imitating nature.In 1961 Riley entered her ‘black and white period’, in which earlier works, they were concerned with rhythm, dynamics and exploration of the tensions between individual colours and the colour continuum. Her later paintings brought an even more intense concern with colour.
Riley’s work is celebrated for its ability to engage the viewer’s sensations and perceptions, producing visual experiences thatare complex and challenging, subtle and arresting. Her paintings employ a simple vocabulary of colors and abstract shapes to generate sensations of movement, light and space.
Bridget Riley Made a Painting (1998) Video Installation
The second Video for practising
Because of the limit of Youtube, I over compressed the video. The quality of the video is crude, so many noises!
The first video for practising
I really don’t know why, after compressing and uploading the video on youtube , the first 10second footage of this video was lost. Meanwhile, I tried to compress another 3mins video, but I can not make it with smaller size and higher pixel. So, I spent a few hours, but still failed to upload it on youtube. I am too stupid~
Actually, I am not satisfied of this video. When I make this video, I found it is really difficult to decide the form of ray, because the ray can be any form which relate to different light source, object and environment. Additionally, before I made this video, I download nearly a hundred of effects of AE, almost all of them are amazing and fabulous. So, I spent most of the time on trying various the effects. But, finally, I found the more effect I try, the less idea I have, and it make me more and more confused. Thus, deciding the basic form of ray in my project is the most urgent problem.
After finishing this video, I did some research. I found that in nature, a light source emits a ray of light which trades, eventually, to a surface that interrupts its progress. One can thick of this ‘ray’ as a stream of photons traveling along the same path. In a perfect vacuum, this ray will be a straight line. However, in reality, diffusion will happen, which will result in that the shape of the ray will be distorted from a column to a cone. Meanwhile, the vertical section of the cone is triangle. So, I decided to choose the basic ray form to be the main part of my video.
As for the hue of this whole video, high contrast black and white is the best choice. The one of my inspirations is Chinese ink painting, another one is a memory of my childhood. I still remember when I was a little girl, I went to cinema. Old movie is different with modern one, because it was projected by a projector. So, there was a white beam of ray above viewer’s heads. The images of dark cinema, white ray and light fog around the ray are still very clear in my mind. When I made the second 3mins video, this memory come out in my mind, I tried to put this feeling in my work. (I will post this video on my blog ASAP)
Yesterday, Andy gave me some very good suggests, such as to cut up and compose the video in Final Cut, which can change the size of screen and try to play different speed on different screens. I will try to do these, and make my video rich and colorful.
