Playing Around With The Lasers

 

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Erwin Redl - Matrix || - Inspiration

"Using LEDs as an artistic medium, working in both two- and three-dimensions, his works redefine interior and exterior spaces by exploring architectural volumes. In 2007, MCASD acquired Redl's seminal, room-size installation, MATRIX II, for its collection. Floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall, the work fills the gallery space with a grid of phosphor green LEDs, creating a visual web of light. Since 1997, Redl has investigated the term 'reverse engineering' by translating the abstract aesthetic language of virtual reality and 3-D computer modeling into a physical architectural environment by means of large-scale light installations. His projects, which range from installations, CD-ROMs, drawings, Internet and sound pieces are assembled according to a narrow set of self-imposed rules inspired by computer code that often incorporate algorithms and controlled randomness. The pure light emitted by the tiny electronic LED components Redl uses in his pieces become the perfect medium to transfer the mental space of abstraction into sensual architectural installations."

Mapping

Map of The Area Using Inks 

Map of The Area - Projection

Mapping the Royal Observatory - Blue

Mapping the Queens House - Green

 



Mapping the Royal Naval College - Red

Breathing Room III (Antony Gormley) - Inspiration

For a new exhibition at the White Cube, Antony Gormley has created Breathing Room III, a cavernous space filled with photo-luminescent frames that form an eerie, glowing matrix. Visitors pass through in darkness, then are cast suddenly into bright light.

Green Laser - Royal Observatory

I noticed a green laser coming from the royal observatory and I was really interested in finding out what the purpose of it was. It seems that the Meridian laser marks the route of the Greenwich Meridian by night in a northerly direction from the Royal Observatory. Under good viewing conditions, it is visible at a distance of over 36 miles with the naked eye and over 60 miles with binoculars. The idea of mapping my journey around Greenwich by using laser lights immediately crossed my mind.

Perspective Collage - Mapping

Idris Khan - Beyond the Black 

With my studio we visited Victoria Miro Gallery to see Idris Khan's exhibition. 

Made up of layer upon layer of words, the shapes draw you in but their meaning is obscured. Only around the edges is anything legible and even then only as a series of fragments. The words are the artist’s reactions to Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘The Birth of Tragedy’. 

I was influenced by Khans's paintings and tried to create a collage of my own by cutting out the most important parts for me from the pictures I took in Greenwich in order to create a new fantastic "space" and by exploring different colours, textures and tempos. I made 3 other versions of it on photoshop and changed the effects to give it a sense of darkness. In the last one I put the map of the area on top of it to show that each of the cut outs that create the space come from all these places.

Greenwich

"Our most memorable spatial experiences are at night – in the dark. From dreams to concerts to theatres, our minds focus on the relationship between materiality and occupation, real and the imagined in this nocturnal preposition. Night is a place of exploration, a time of paranormal, exaggerated excitement and mythology, where the threshold between the night as a natural time scale and virtual/artificial dark environment blurs into a realm of potential, illusion and ritual." 

For this years project the site we are given to work on and analyse is Greenwich, our theme "Darkness"
The pictures above are from my first site visit.