Peter Erskine

"Peter Erskine's "Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations" is a culmination of his interest in the interplay of light, space, and architecture. For thirty years his sculpture has explored the way in which light falls on modulated surfaces. "Secrets of the Sun" uses the emotional impact of art to address the full range of nature from its most elemental expression as pure light to its most complex expression as global ecology.
In "Cromos" and "New Light on Rome" the universal beauty and power of the solar spectrum, one of Nature’s most fundamental forces, is superimposed on the surfaces and structure of some of the most beautiful public buildings in Italy.
Because the sun’s angle, intensity and color continually change with the hour, day, and season, the art, the ancient monuments, the trains and the stations are continually perceived in a fresh, new light." - Peter Erskine's website. See more;

New Light on Rome 2000

"Trajan's Markets Aula and Hemicycle, House of the Knights of Rhodes, Porta di San Sebastiano, Criptoportico of Nero - stone witnesses to a bygone culture in Rome that today needs to be preserved and protected. At the dawn of the new millenium, these two thousand year old buildings are becoming a stage and a backdrop for a Solar Specturm art installation by Peter Erskine.

Erskine uses prisms and mirrors to spread white sunlight into the colors of the solar spectrum. He floods roman arches and columns with rainbows. Changing with the hours and seasons, the art is different every day of the year. The rays of the Sun, the origin of all life, create a fascinating interplay of colors and forms. Here, solar energy and monuments to human creativity unite to form a living work of art in which visitors themselves become creators and participants. We see ancient Rome in a new light."

Cromos: Solar Spectum art in public architecture, 2000 - 2001

"Commissioned by the Italian State Railway, Ferrovia dello Stato, Peter Erskine has created solar spectrum environmental installations in Rome Termini station, Florence Santa Maria Novella station, Milan Central station and on 30 EuroStar high speed trains running between Rome and Milan.

The geographic and architectural scope of the project probably makes it the largest artwork in the world. Over 5000 square feet of specially designed prism material were used including over 3.5 miles of prism in the 30 trains. However, the total project weight of all prism material used is less than 150 kilograms and virtually all the art materials will be recycled by the artist.

Ecologically, the Cromos project is an example of the "sustainability" principle of doing much more with much less."

Spectrum of Time, 1999

"Spectrum of Time" is a permanent rainbow sundial calendar installation in the Kokerei Zollverein, a United Nations Historic Preservation site. Hour and month lines painted on the walls and floor of the 40' X 40' X 40' industrial museum space mark the hours, summer and winter solstices, and the spring and autumn equinoxes with astronomical accuracy. A 30' X 30' cross of solar spectrum light powered by the rotation and tilt of the earth tells the time and date. On cloudy days a laser pointer driven by a solar tracking program fills in for the rainbow.

Spectrum of Time, Rainbow Sundial calendar. Visitors walk inside a living map of the solar year. Each "Rainbow Sundial calendar" is a unique joining of astronomy, architecture, locale, and art.

Sunrise, 1999

"Sunrise" is the first art experience in the Kokerei. Riding in a people mover, viewers ride the 400', 20 degree incline following the dark path of the coal in its original conveyor belt tunnel. As they rise, the viewers travel through a fog inlluminated 400' long 10' high solar spectrum beam, and pass through the changing colors of the rainbow. When they disembark on the factory roof they see the solar powered 8' X 8' heliostat solar tracking mirror, and solar prism that create the art.

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Arcades by TROIKA

Arcades, 2012 by TROIKA_

"Arcades is a site specific installation that inscribes one architectural space within another; an arcade made of the light is implanted into a space defined by strong brick walls, a pitched roof and exposed wooden beams, that of a former stable. The arcade is given shape by a series of 14 pillars of light that are met by fresnel lenses refracting the rays that travel through their focal points. When travelling through the lenses, the light beams do not simply change direction but bend hyperbolically to form the arches of gothic architecture." See more;

"Arcades creates a spatial suspension of disbelief which questions our relationship with the metaphysical in a world increasingly governed by practical, rational and scientific principles. By confronting the viewer with the seemingly impossible phenomenon of bending light it creates a space for contemplation and introspection, suggesting a synthesis between agnostic reason and intuitive belief.

The arcade of light lies between the intangible and physical, the visible and the seemingly impossible. It asks the viewer to pause and contemplate the surrounding space whilst promoting openness rather than closure. The illusion doesn't usurp but rather re-enforces the experience of a space. Here, in the spirit of stain-glass, of ‘Lux Nova’, in which spirituality is invoked through light, science invokes the sublime."

'Arcades' is a site specific installation for Future Primitives, Biennale Interieur 2012, Kortrijk Belgium.
30 m (L) x 2 m (W) x 3.2 m (H) Lenses, lights, steel and aluminium

Cocky Eek

Some great inspirational images from the work of Cocky Eek, using different transparent and reflective materials into natural environments, playing with wind and light forming interesting organic sculptures in the air. Into the post you can see Illumine and Scapes projects, in a previous post I posted several pictures from Blobs and Float (see here) which shows lab set-ups for exploration in equilibriums, floating rooms, and space toys in connection with the human body, interesting too! See more;

ILLUMINE

'The first corporeal form which some call corporeity is in my opinion light.' Robert Grosseteste

They become alive when starting to breath moving their inner light space the skin is the beholder of their integrity preventing themselves for being solved in outer space

Noctiluca miliaris, or “thousand nightlights”, or many people call it the "light of the sea". It is an organism which looks like a transparant balloon with a small tail. It produces that bioluminecense light of the sea, to scare of its predators. One summernight I swom with a transparant costum stuffed with small glow in the dark sticks in the nortsea. I was an obvious enemy; the Noctilucaas started to flash their lights and intermingled with my the "glow in the darks" of the costum. Only a few passengers were witness of a luminous phenomenology and all what's left is a picture of an empty costum after the performance..."

SCAPES

"White Sands Various forms of dunes are found within the limits of White Sands in New Maxico. Dome dunes are found along the southwest margins of the field, transverse and barchan in the core of the field, and parabolic dunes occur in high numbers along the northern, southern, and northeastern margins. These dunes contain solely of Gypsum which is rarely found in the form of sand because it is water-soluble. Normally, rain would dissolve the gypsum and carry it to the sea. The Tularosa Basin is enclosed, meaning that it has no outlet to the sea and that rain that dissolves gypsum from the surrounding Mountains is trapped within the basin. The dunes constantly change shape and slowly move downwind."

Mitch Trale

I have recently discovered the great work by Mitch Trale, which is quite mesmerizing including colored and gradient based loop animations running through .swf like the one above from atrophy.in series, and gif layered compositions like in renders.in (showing one on the bottom of the post). Mitch Trale has also created interesting virtual and interactive websites which make the user feel a perfect fusion between virtual and real environments, my favorite one is Gallant Aparatus, due the structure of the virtual space fits very well with the real structure of Yayoi Kusama's installations. See more;

Gallant Apparatus, 2010 

http://gallantapparatus.com/

Three Reinstalls After Yayoi Kusama —The Internet obliterates itself by providing a surface upon which an infinite number of sites may exist as independent contextual zones. 

Analog Environments, 2009

http://analogenvironments.com/

"This piece explores the perceived divide between our online and offline experience. The Internet is a projection and reflection of what we think the world is like. Our online reality is as inextricable from our offline reality as any object in any mirror, however distorted.

We use technology to attempt a capture of true sight. The application of photography, holography, 3D geometry scanning, and VR, will inevitably flatten the dimensionality of the world. It's this apparent loss that leads us to believe that digital sight exists on a level beneath analog sight.

I believe that these two sights run parallel, and that each possesses a distinct ability to visualize the superstructure of the Internet, as well as the logics which drive our offline lives."

renders.in, 2010
http://enders.in

"Renders explore the interpretive independence of our web browsing experience. In each piece, a small image is enlarged. The four major web browsers handle this simple request differently. The scaling is not lossy but rather gainful, as new color and dimensional data are supplied by the browser itself. I'm interested in these visualizations because they expose the habitual, textural inclinations of browser software. We view the web through these tools every day, and we become used to the personality of our vision within them."

Takagi Masakatsu

Not sure when Takagi Masakatsu relaunched his website, the thing is that the new site shows now a lot of stills from many of his great video works with a pretty nice resolution where is possible to appreciate the texture and forms of his creations over video such as in the still above which is from a piece called Anyura, 2011, very impressive. See more;

Check out a previous post showing some videos of Takagi Masakatsu here.
The texture and colors from Wave are awesome too, see here.

Ymene: 1. idu mi, 2010

Earth's Creation #1, 2010

Toner, 2006

Philharmony, 2007

The color of empty sky, 2005