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LATENCIES

The exhibition LATENCIES by Daniel Canogar (*1964, Madrid) shows, in addition to his two series of works SMALL DATA and ECHO, his latest series LATENCIES, created in 2021.

“Canogar investigates the interfaces and transitions between virtual and real worlds. In expansive, large-scale installations and generative video animations, the artist is dealing with the impact of media technologies on society; he vividly presents the transition from electromechanical to digital systems → Read more

Referenzräume

The large-scale exhibition ReferenzRäume provides an insight into the work of Mischa Kuball. It shows room-sized installations, photographs and video projections as well as documentation from the work complex ‘public preposition’, i.e. those works realised in public spaces. → Read more

The market for Crypto art is exploding – There is a gold-rush atmosphere

For the art market and the rest of the world, the phenomenon has been a great mystery since 11 March. On that day, the auction house Christie’s sold an NFT file by Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) for a fabulous 69 million US dollars.

Is a new era in art history dawning?

NFT is the name of the latest trend. Digitalisation is giving rise to a new art form: because an NFT cannot be copied, every NFT is unique and cryto art is conquering the art market – it is giving analogue art considerable competition. → Read more

Switch II is a project of the Center for International Light Art Unna and the Hochschule der Bildende Künste Saar (HBKsaar) Saarbrücken.
In this follow-up project, students and teachers of the HBKsaar experiment with physical light in drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and performance. The common denominator of the exhibition is an understanding of the image that is inherent in temporality, changeability and transience.

Read full article in ArtLight 2021_1 (February)  → Read more

Creative lighting to reimagine cities
LUCI in collaboration with the City of Lyon will organize the Lyon Light Festival Forum. – Created in 2002, LUCI is a non-profit organization bringing together over 70-member towns and cities worldwide that use light as a tool for social, cultural and economic development.
The Lyon Light Festival Forum offers creative lighting professionals from around the world a space to explore new forms of creative lighting in the urban space.

The Lyon Light Festival Forum 2020 is a free online event.

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More Light

Although Stanislav Lem under no circumstance wanted to be called a science fiction author, his literary works, despite their profundity, are visions and utopias which were conceived decades before the actual development of described complex technologies like neural networks or virtual reality or communication attempts with extra-terrestrial intelligence became a subject of discussion. The association ‘mehr licht’ in Graz chose the title SOLARIS for its next exhibition – and so refers to Stanislav Lem’s famous futuristic novel Solaris (1961) → Read more

The art of language on light bands

Holzer has conquered public space worldwide with her “Truisms” of light, her almost lapidary but critical statements on politics, economy and life. – Holzer sees herself as a political artist. She became enthusiastic about computer technology early on and since she first used LED technology in 1982 to make her texts public, light has become the main medium of her art. From then on, she could have her messages trickled down in huge LED writing strips or monumentally illuminated the silhouettes of cities all over the world.  → Read more

The artistic exploration of the watercourse of the Oker and its 24 bridges is at the focus of the Lightparcours 2020. For centuries, the historic city centre of Braunschweig has been significantly influenced by this topographically dominant river. The works of art have been conceived site-specifically in an examination of the geography and history of Braunschweig. → Read more

TAVA2021 – The world of light

Architectural Lighting and Light Art festival Tartu In Light (TAVA2021) will be held for the third time this autumn in Tartu, Estonia. TAVA2021 is a consistent, international, cross-disciplinary festival of light art and lighting art. The pre- and main events of the festival will last for 30 days. → Read more

Light > political, social, ecological positions in art

At the beginning of the modern age, artificial light was considered a symbol of modern life. Even though life without artificial light is unthinkable today, it is also associated with light pollution and energy waste, despite technical advancements and undeniable benefits. The exhibition and publication project Macht! Licht! exhibition and publication project at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg presents artistic positions that consciously focus on political, ecological or social statements and critically comment on the use of light – and thus also, in a figurative sense, on the use of resources. → Read more