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For the sixth year, the IESNY invited design students to participate in a citywide competition on the study of light. Students were asked to construct a three-dimensional study on how light can reveal, create, or transform the unseen,
a topic explored in the keynote address given by Prof. Dr. Ing Henrich Kramer, Germany based lighting designer and professor.
The competition allowed students to explore light as an art form, demonstrate light as a stimulus, and prove light is a valuable medium.
The first place winner Ernesto Klar, a
MFA candidate in Design and Technology
Parsons School of Design,
received $3,000 plus a trip to attend the Fall 2006 European Lighting Designers Association (ELDA) workshop.
Joachim Ritter, editor of
Professional Lighting Design
magazine, and Alison Ritter, ELDA director general, gave a presentation about past ELDA workshops that had every designer in the audience wishing they could attend.
Jury:
Alison Ritter of ELDA, Conor Sampson of McGill University
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Frank Conti of Enterprise Lighting Sales
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Joachim Ritter of the Professional Lighting Design magazine
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Peter Jacobson of ConEd, and Prof. Dr. Ing. Heinrich Kramer of Lichtdesign GmbH Design
Sponsors:
This competition was made possible by the generous support of Professional Lighting Design Magazine, ELDA+, Juno Lighting Group, Osram/Sylvania, Louis Poulsen Lighting, Lutron Controls, Enterprise Lighting Sales, and contributions by Con Edison and Nulux Lighting.
Awards
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First Place Award $3,000
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plus airfare, accommodations, and registration fee to attend Fall 2006 European Lighting Designers Association Workshop
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Second Place Award $1,000
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Third Place Award $500
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First Place: Ernesto Klar
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MFA candidate in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design (Instructor: Christopher Kirwan)
"Convergenze parallele" is an audiovisual installation in which airborne dust particles passing through a beam of light are tracked, visualized, and sonified in real-time by a custom software system. The installation reacts to both natural and artificial air movements in the exhibition space, prompting the viewer to interact by blowing air towards the light and to observe the amplified sound-image relationships.
The custom software system integrates computer vision and sound synthesis algorithms. The personal computer running the software system uses a video camera to track the location of individual dust particles. This information is then translated into sound in real-time, mapping dust particles data to synthesized sound particles. The visualization projected on the wall consists of an image-processed view that reveals the particles trajectory.
"Convergenze parallele" explores the poetic potential of revealing and transforming the imperceptible, in the attempt to, in the words of artist Georges Vantongerloo, "see the invisible, or if you like, take a sounding on the incommensurable."
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Third Pace:
Chen Lin He
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interior design major from the Fashion Institute of Technology (Instructor: Randy Sabedra)
Called “The Face”, it consists of 2,400 square paper pixels each the same size with sloped tops of 0 to 63 degree, all aligned on one horizontal plane. The tops with the greater angle receive greater light; the tops with least angle receive less light. Together the varying shades illustrate the illusion of a three dimensional face.
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Honorable Mention: Kimberly Acosta
, interior design major from the Fashion Institute of Technology (Instructor: Randy Sabedra)
"The Transformation of Yellow" By using different color lights, strips of yellow gel filters are transformed to create new colors. The primary light colors red, blue and green were used to reveal new colored strips created by various colored light projections. Three separate fluorescent fixtures were placed in individual cubes covered in black to contain the light and project only the color of the filter. Each cube contains a gel filter on the front side to illuminate the white board and transform the color of the yellow strips. The cubes can be turned on and off individually creating different colors through various combinations. Finally, the strips were given dimensionality to reveal the shadows light creates.
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