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Friday 12 February 2016

House of Vans - Polyphonic Playground

The Polyphonic Playground installation is housed at the House of Vans in London from 30 January up until 21 February 2016. It is interactive sound installation by Studio PSK, commissioned by the Fashion Space Gallery and London College of Fashion. It was developed by musician Reeps One.

The installation is inspired by the joys of the playground as a child, which comes complete with a slide, a climbing frame and swings. The installation employs advanced music engineering made with conductive paint, tape and yarn to create MIDI triggers, visible on the steps and the slide. The swing is interwoven with electronic textile.

#HouseofVans #PolyphonicPlayground

Thursday 11 February 2016

The Mayor Gallery presents Calculations, Permutations, Notations - LAb[au]

The Mayor Gallery presents calculations, permutations, notations with all artworks created by LAb[au]. The exhibition coincided with Lumiere London 2016 festival in which Lab[au] is featured with their art installation binaryWAVES. The exhibition ran from 13 – 31 January 2016 at the .

The exhibition, very much like binaryWAVES, employs technology for the most part of the exhibition to animate their work as it plays on the geometry, shape and lighting to create different allusions and added textured layers to the artworks.

The pieces that feature origami has a subtlety to them which is further reinforced with the slender and occasional movements as a flap moves across playing on the surrealistic themes that run throughout the exhibition. More to the this theme is the concept of technology as also appears in print as well in oneOfABillionDays which features a series of alphanumerics that dances and dazzles upon the eye. LAb[au] presents the idea of “algorithmic logic” to challenge the idea of the contemporary vision and appeal.

mosaique 4x4x4 bw

signaltoNoisePermutation

origamiSquare 6x6x4

oneOfABillionDays

Origami Square 6x6x1

origamiSnubSquare 17x1

Monday 8 February 2016

Winter Lights Festival @ Canary Wharf

A series of light installations were displayed across Canary Wharf which was part of the Lumiere London festival this year. Many of the artworks are marvelled spectacles that are not only visually stunning but some are currently encouraged to interact with the artworks one way or another. The festival ran from 11 to 22 January 2016.

Some of the light installations can be found below:

The Luminous City - Nathaniel Rackowe

Light Sphere I - Tom Wilkinson

We Could Meet - Martin Richman

A Parallel Image - Gebhard Sengmüller

Moon - Iregular (Daniel Iregui)

Aura (2014) - Philips Lighting Design

Lumen Prize Exhibition - Lumen

The Pool - Jen Lewin Studio

My Light is Your Light - Alaa Minawi
Globoscope - Collectif Coin

Flawless - Gonzalo Bascuñan & Perrine Vichet

On the Wings of Freedom - Aether & Hemera

Infinity Pools - Stephen Newby

bit.fall - Julius Popp

Totem - Bitone Collective

Fantastic Planet - Amanda Parer

Tuesday 2 February 2016

Lumiere London 2016 - Mayfair

Lumiere London is an art festival bringing artists from all around the world to create light installations situated in and around London. The festival ran from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 January 2016. The installations were mainly around central London.

There are in total 6 light installations in Mayfair:

Sanctuary - Sarah Blood

Dissect - Sarah Blood

Spinning Night in Living Colour - Elaine Buckhoitz

Brothers and Sisters - Ron Haselden

Lightbench - Bernd Spiecker for LBO-Lichtbankobjekte

Aquarium - Benedetti Bufalino

#LumiereLDN

Monday 1 February 2016

Lumiere London 2016 - Piccadilly, Regent Street and St James's

Lumbered London is a festival featuring a series of light installations made by artists from around the world lined up around London. The festival was held from Thursday 14 to Sunday 17 January 2016 and was produced by Artichoke and supported by the Mayor of London.

There were 9 installations in the area of Piccadilly, Regent Street and St James's: