It’s probably obvious from the links in the right hand column, but last month I set up an Etsy shop for my smaller light works.
Etsy’s a site dedicated to all things crafty and handmade. On first glance, my electronic works seem out of place amongst all the beads, jewelery, knitting, and paintings. However, since my light boxes are laboriously constructed one-at-a-time I figured I’d fit right in with the handmade ethos; and, seeing selling an under-represented craft as an advantage, I figured I have little to lose . . . aside from some time and $0.20 per listing.
In addition to the advancements made to the Electric Window 3.xx series back in December, I also started a new light box series, Electric Window 4.xx:
This series revolves around a matrix of 16 LEDs with individually controlled brightness and fading, making it an organic/analog sibling to the 3.xx series which uses LED screens with a large group of on/off, or binary/digital behaving pixels.
Continuing to turn inspiration into reality, Deb and I unpacked our new table saw, installed the acrylic-capable blade, and got to work cutting and gluing. The result is a prototype for a new series of light boxes/cubes:
With the inspiration of using acrylic as an artistic/structural medium mixed with the notion of baring it all in terms of circuit board exposure, as outlined in this previous post, I set about to realize the next entry in the Electric Window 3.xx series with a new perspective:
[ Build details and more photos after the break . . . ]
Schumann’s work revolves around sculptural acrylic forms illuminated by black light:
Staudt’s work explores form and perspective through a variety of pieces built from patterns of 3D objects suspended in space (through the use of coloured and transparent acrylic):
December ‘09 was a busy month! I made a lot of progress on my “Electric Window” light series, both developing it as a platform and getting a handful out there into peoples’ collections.
A big move was finalizing the framework for the 3.xx series, by reducing the “Electric Window (iii)” design from two screens to one:
In an effort to standardize “editions” of my lighting fixtures, the “Electric Window 3.xx” series is based around one or more 24 x 16 pixel displays, in a small enclosure of some sort. While the hardware design will remain fairly constant, the software and enclosures will vary. The pattern shown above is an autonomous drawing program, like an electronic Etch-a-Sketch on auto-pilot.
Just finished a proof-of-concept video for an interactive audio/visual installation, where the audience become the performers in a room-sized drum machine with blinking lights and sychronized video:
The audio is straight from a drum machine, triggering the video in real time which is done in Processing; this initial draft shows that this is just the tip of the iceberg for what’s possible . . .
Dawghaus Studios put a video together of the event featuring some of our music, video, and performance — along with Spacing-related content, too, of course
