CATEGORY:
VR production
ROLE:
Designer
SOFTWARE:
Unreal Engine blueprint
SketchUp
Rhino
YEAR:
2020
CATEGORY:
Kinetic Light Installation
ROLE:
Designer and Fabricator
SOFTWARE:
Arduino
Illustrator/ laser-cut
YEAR:
2019
Light is always perceived as a static element, and we want to break that boundary and explore light in a more vivid vision. The project is to use light as a medium of art through motion and refraction that reveals tangible and natural phenomena like “Ebb and flow”, which is to create a recurrent/ rhythmical pattern of coming and going or decline and regrowth through light.
Project Developments
Brainstorming and Collaboration
Brainstorm and collaborate with digital artist Xinyue Li
Concept Development & Proposal
The project uses light as an art medium to transform and express the motion of water.
Material and Light Effect Testing
Throughout the design process, transparent materials in various shapes and forms, light sources and various kinds of liquid were tested.
The project was iterated through different schematic designs and eventually articulated as a suspended kinetic light sculpture.
Physical computing
Step motors and mechanism
Fabrication
12 acrylic cylinders filled with oil
24 ultrabright LED
24 laser-cut acrylic enclosure
24 laser-cut pivoting wooden discs
2 Step Motor
2 wood axis
Base board
Fishwire
Powersource
Arduino
