Projection Design
“Projection Design” offers a hands-on approach to the design, planning and execution of digital projections in a variety of performance spaces by using a combination of industry standard and open source research software tools. This blog will serve as an online text for the developing book, "Technical Ecstasy" and link for the web-readings, online tutorials,software resources historical examples, video art and performance examples and essential class communications for Projection Design class taught by Patrick Pagano
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While it may be true that we have come far from the time of the light organ, lumia is still a growing medium in which people are coming to appreciate. Due to the cost and size of most typical lumia displays at this time (i.e concerts, rave parties, etc.), it would be relatively difficult for the common man to participate in the medium at this time. However, the era of naysayers is long past. People accept, even expect, light shows at certain events and places. It has come to characterize the atmosphere of many musical circumstances including clubs, Electronic Dance Music festivals, and even Rock concerts. - Robert Kleszczynski
The idea of light as an eighth art form has come a long way since the 1700s. From the early Chinese, to Aristotle, and to the present, humans have witnessed a transformation in how light and sound are viewed. We are now able to combine the two together, creating artwork that, according to colored music notation, stimulates different neurons.
In a performance aspect, seeing different colors appear on a screen evokes certain emotions in viewers.
The theory of "Color Music" goes hand in hand with synesthesia - in this case, how "each note in the musical scale [has] a definite color."
Depending on the beat, tempo, and rhythm of a song, we are able to create light (a projection
design) to match that, whether it be by adjusting the speed, pattern, or color of the lumia creation.
At first rejected, the art of light has gradually become more popular in this day in age.
After the creation of the Clavilux in the early 1900s, people have become interested in using light as a form of art, specifically to accompany performances. The use of lumia can be seen in numerous places today, including planetariums, concerts, parties, night clubs, raves, theatres, and even on the side of buildings. The accepted use of lumia in the twenty-first century is just beginning, and is only going to keep growing over time.
When inspired people first creatively combine the definition of "music" and "color " together, we should realize that any form of art is worth of being thinking and exploring collaboratively.
Also,The history related with the expression of light is definitely tortuous but everlasting,from restless flicker to controllable Clavilux,and from a brand-new concept to an ubiquitous application in our daily life.I have to say that the spirit in whether scientific or artistic experiment is educative and honorable.
Yesterday I saw a TED speech from a man who was born in non-perception to multiple colors,everything in his world is black and white.Fortunately, he used a device installed into his bone changed his life.Through the signal of various colored light detected by his device,then transformed into corresponding music notes,he could "see" the world by listening those colorful stuff,even he started to have a dream in color.This is also a good alive example about how lumia changed people's life.
I think, with the more and more study in light,electricity,color and sound, people will,like what Thomas Wilfred taught,more and more comprehensively know our world and dare to create more synthesized artistic beauty in our world.
All in all,there still a lot of fields(one of our digital projection) need us to explore.
It seems to me that the art of light is a typical inspirational story. Everything is hard in the beginning. Due to the limitation of technology and equipment, the first public performance of the art was not a success. Most of audience cannot understand and accept it. But never doubt that good things always pop up at the least expected moment. Though years of efforts, TW’s work has finally been recognized by the public and the industry. Meanwhile, it is also a legendary story. The particular form of art survived from a series of setbacks, even including the two world wars. Nothing can stop it starts its life again in peacetime afterwards.
Nowadays, Lumia has become more mature and complete. As a legendary art form, it should be more widely spread by practitioners.
Seeing a form of art being ridiculed at its conception always seems to be a good sign. It's always these practices that end up being the ones with the most potential to succeed. We are experiencing such a thing today with newer mediums or newer genres of older mediums. Sooner or later, the craziest forms are art will be accepted. Lumia is accepted today, despite what autocorrect says. Though, "color music," wherein, the light is presented by itself isn't that common, it is very hard to not see it accompanied. DJs and musicians are always relying on the art of Lumia for visually aesthetic entertainment. Laser shows with some psychedelic rock band playing in the background comes to mind. Some visual effects in television or movies can be rooted to Lumia. Its common uses are all around us but as filler. Hopefully, it can grow back in popularity as its own medium.
Thomas Wilfred's 1947 scholarly article takes the reader through the progress of light as an art form: lumia. For hundreds of years, light and color have been associated with music, with varying connections such as low frequencies to dark colors within the spectrum, or high, shrill frequencies to bright colors within the spectrum. Initially having to “piggy back” musical art, by simply being an accompaniment to the main feature of sound, light began taking the stage as an independent art form. This newly emerging art form not only had (has) the struggle of fighting the status quo, like a newly emerging genre of music, but also takes on the challenge of bringing in an entire new 8th form of art into our world.
“Light and the Artist” presents the history and introduction of a proposed new art form known as lumia. Wilfred goes back centuries ago to provide substantiation to the fact that although the general idea of lumia as the eighth art form has been perceived rather harshly, 200 years ago, there were people using the heavens as a primitive form of light art. Focusing on the rejection of lumia as a new art form, there have been strides to support it on many different aspects—main one being from a scientific standpoint. For Pére Castel to provide a translation between hue and sound is a rather hard case to defend—and halfway though the article, Wilfred indicates that Castel “decided C should be blue because it sounded blue.” This is an interesting article but I can see how many—past and present—will view lumia not yet as an independent art form but rather of a secondary art form that serves as support to other major areas of art.
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