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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This piece has a colourful history
The original, static fixture shown above was built for Cube Gallery’s 2008 exhibtion, Homage, which asked participating artists to create an homage to an important influence on their art.
I chose to make a wall-mounted rendition of Dan Flavin’s fluorescent installation, “untitled (in honor of Harold Joachim)”:
For the [...]
I just completed a custom light box for Ottawa photographer Rémi Thériault. It was a bit challenging in that instead of building it from scratch, I needed to retrofit an old hotplate.
Rémi took the KD photo on the hotplate before disassembling it, had the photo printed in 3D, then removed the hotplate from its [...]
After encouraging results with my first Arudino project, Deb and I teamed up with Arduino again for our entry in Cube Gallery’s Nocturne show, a group exhibition dedicated to the beauty of the night sky.
As the only electronic artists in the show, we built a triptych of animated light boxes representing the stars of Orion’s [...]
Having already built several projects requiring a 12Vdc sequencer, such as my Prototype lamp
and my Conduit sculpture
I realized that experimenting with new projects with similar lights would be easier with a common development platform . . .