ighting Fundamentals – A Primer for Application and Manipulation
Workshop by Ioannis Oriwol

This hands-on workshop explores lighting as both a technical medium and creative tool for media art and design.
Participants will gain understanding of lighting technologies, from historical incandescent systems to modern LED fixtures, and learn methods for manipulating light in installations and performances.

Key topics include light source types, fixture varieties, physical modification (lenses, filters, gobos), electrical control systems, and digital manipulation through DMX programming. The afternoon session offers time for experimentation.

Ioannis Oriwol is a media artist whose practice is creatively influenced by his work in the event industry. Currently studying Media Art and Design as well as Fine Arts at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, his artistic approach is media-archaeological, working with found and historical lighting equipment to create installations and performances.

#interfacedesign #interactiveart #bauhausuniversitätweimar #soundandlight #mediaart #lightinstallation #mediainstallation #performanceart #interactiveart #lightart #printedelectronics #installationart #mediainstallation
#prototyping

#London was cool as usual, except for a couple of minuses: even more people than usual (because Christmas), a #NathanielRackowe exhibiton that was closed two days before the announced last day (less #LightArt for me) and #LondonLightMuseum people, that seem to have vanished in the thin air (I have no idea who they are so the only connection is a web page form).

#RyojiIkeda exhibition in 180 Studios was a sensory overload, which is not totally a bad thing.

Accept All Cookies 🍪
by Elif Kalender

Accept All Cookies is an interactive installation that reimagines surveillance as a reactive presence, rather than a central, all-seeing eye.

Visitors are invited to “accept the cookies” by taking one, triggering sensors that activate the surveillance state. The work highlights how we constantly give away personal data online, often without realizing it.

Two moving head lights are placed at opposite ends of a corridor.

Phase 1 – The Search
As long as no one takes a cookie, the lights move randomly on the X and Y axes, scanning as if searching for their next subject.

Phase 2 – State of Surveillance
When someone reaches for a cookie, the sensors activate and the system locates the visitor. The lights immediately shift from passive search to active tracking. The visitor becomes the observed.

Software:
Arduino, TouchDesigner, Adobe Audition

Hardware:
LED Spot Moving Head Light ×2, DMX Cable ×2, Enttec DMX USB Pro Interface, Extension Cables, Distance Sensor ×2, Arduino Nano, Bluetooth Speaker

#bauhausuniversitätweimar #soundandlight #mediaart #lightinstallation #mediainstallation #performanceart #interactiveart #lightart #printedelectronics #installationart #winterwerkschau2025 #mediainstallation
#prototyping #talktome #summaery2025 #connectedobjects

So, I was attending the international light art residency, which caused a lot of #LightArt in my life. During four days, we visited five light festivals, met loads of light art people, colleagues, artists and the rest, and visited Yorkshire Sculpture Park, always a pleasure.

And learned a new term: beige buffet. I decline to accept it as a pejorative term, since it is so describing. And not bad at all!

Also get to know this semi-canine character called Hacker. And what a character he was!