Sougwen Chung's Chiaroscuro Installation Breathes with Light and Hand-drawn Imagery

Chiaroscuro is an installation work by Sougwen Chung, the Canadian-born, New York-based illustrator/media artist. Veering far from the mechanical minimalism of so much projection mapping, with its hard edges and rectangular conformity, Sougwen instead uses light and animation to draw outside the lines. Shimmering as though refracted through a digital ocean, the animation lights up […]

Sougwen Chung’s Chiaroscuro Installation Breathes with Light and Hand-drawn Imagery

Chiaroscuro is an installation work by Sougwen Chung, the Canadian-born, New York-based illustrator/media artist. Veering far from the mechanical minimalism of so much projection mapping, with its hard edges and rectangular conformity, Sougwen instead uses light and animation to draw outside the lines. Shimmering as though refracted through a digital ocean, the animation lights up […]

Peter Kirn - June 11, 2013

A Grand Piano of Light, Illuminating Rachmaninoff [Arduino+LEDs]

Nail the finger fireworks of a particularly hard Rachmaninoff, and you may well feel like blasts of light are shooting out of the piano. But to give the audience the same sense, a DIY instrument made of cardboard and homebrewed responsive lighting translates that keyboard virtuosity to an optical show. Reader Aylwin Lo sends us […]

Peter Kirn - May 9, 2013

The Listening Tree: A Holiday Tree Whose Colored Lights Respond to Sound

- December 19, 2012

Shine: An LED Wall Looks Great, Tours Easily, And You Can Build It [Open Source Hardware]

Peter Kirn - September 24, 2012

Not Just Projection Mapping: MadMapper Maps LED and Lights, Too [Updates; Beta]

Peter Kirn - August 27, 2012

Philips Thinks We Want a Giant Wave of LED Panels, Controlled By iPad – And They're Correct

Peter Kirn - August 8, 2012

Philips Thinks We Want a Giant Wave of LED Panels, Controlled By iPad – And They’re Correct

Peter Kirn - August 8, 2012

In Translucent Glass Grids, Nature's Patterns, Revealed

Peter Kirn - April 26, 2012

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