Soo Sunny Park - The Unwoven Light
The unwoven light is a beautiful installation which manipulates light using plexiglas pieces attached to a wire frame. In the documentary below the artist Soo Sunny park talks about the design process of her work and how her ideas develop. I find the concept of creating a light which "appears" in thin air fascinating and has to be one of my favourites!
Jung Lee – “Aporia”
I couldn't help but feel touched by the neon art
installations. The powerful language displayed in contrast with the empty and isolated environment brings a real sense of sadness or emptiness. The South Korean artist and photographer Lee Jung created Aporia, which is the
Greek word for a passage, dead end, or the inability to give a precise answer
to a problem. Her art installations are inspired by words from the book "a
lover's discourse" by Roland Barths." If you are
in love with someone, there are such deep feelings you want to express, but
words don't do them justice so you end up repeating title phrases from films or a song" says Jung Lee. She interprets love as an addiction, a state of entrapment a place
with out exit. 
Ai Weiwei – “Forever
Bicycles”
This 3 dimensional
installation compromises of 3,144 identical stainless steel
bicycles. It was created to generate awareness of
transportation’s impact on the environment. The artist took an everyday
object-the bicycle-and used it in an abstract and symbolic way. It is a
spectacular labyrinthine structure that plays with different visual effects.
Viewed from different angles, it can take on an abstract quality and transform
itself into a kind of blurry urban mirage. People can navigate through it and
experience it as a space that appears to be in motion.
Yayoi Kusama – “Infinity Mirror Room”
The infinity mirror room consists of hundreds of flashing led lights hanging from a ceiling. The mirror tiles that cover the entire room add reflections of led lighting giving the viewer an experience of being in an astonishing endless space. Its amazing how the whole room is transformed by the use of mirrors, which really opens your mind to how materials can be used in a way to create something extraordinary. This has inspired a range of experiments using mirror to reflect light and produce different effects. An alternative to glass mirror could
mirrored card or acrylic which are more accessible and suitable
for the final design.
Tokujin Yoshioka – “Crystallize”
The crystallize installation stands At 12 metres high and is composed of 500 crystal prisms that convert natural rays of light into rainbow colours. It is known as the rainbow church and is exhibited at the museum of contemporary art in Tokyo. The artists inspiration comes mainly from the formation of natural structures that are composed through the crystallization process. This is relevant to my project as it incorporates Newton's prism theory which is something I have looked into previously to develop ideas. I thought of designing a chandelier with a number of prisms which will create a spectrum of colour effects using artificial light.
Marcus Tremonto - Contemporary Lighting
Carbon Light 541 -
Marcus Tremonto is a designer focuses on the development of materials that reflect the modern age and represent the future in shape. I particularly like how playful yet simple the ribbon fixture is, although a disadvantage would be the carbon fibre used as this is an expensive material.
"Light works" is a series of 16 sculptural light forms created using an electroluminescent material (The glowing lines) enclosed in reflective Perspex. An illusion is formed using the Perspex which creates an effect of the whole object when in fact only half actually exists
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