TWITTER ACTIVATED LIGHT BOXES ON DISPLAY AT ORIENTAL CHARM GIFT SHOP [ 653 SOMERSET ST. W., OTTAWA ] FROM MAY 8 – JUNE 8 2010
Ottawa (Ontario) – You won’t want to miss it! Ottawa’s second annual Chinatown Remixed event is happening Saturday, May 8, from 2-5 p.m.
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Etsy follow-up and Makers Market
It seems the blog love for my Etsy shop back in February and March helped out as I’m happy to report that I’ve sold some Electric Window pieces via Etsy: notably to customers in California and Switzerland. This represents international attention for my work that I may not have attained otherwise.
I’ve since been accecpted by [...]
Blog love
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 [...]
Electric Window 4.xx
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 [...]
Light cube prototype
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:
Electric Window 3.03
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 [...]
It’s all about content . . ?
Gallery hopping in Toronto late last year, I discovered a handful of really inspiring artists.
Gallery Lausberg specializes in abstract German sculpture. Of particular interest to me were the works of Regine Schumann and Klaus Staudt.
Schumann’s work revolves around sculptural acrylic forms illuminated by black light:
Staudt’s work explores form and perspective through a variety of pieces [...]
Electric Window 3.01
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 [...]
Interactive Audio/Visual Installation
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 [...]
Window office
This is the third piece in my “electric window” series, which began in December of 2007 when I stuffed a small pre-made frame with EL wire and a decorative acrylic panel as an entry to Gallery 101’s annual fundraiser / art auction, 101 Frames.
The year after, I made another EL wire based piece, and animated [...]