LIGHT SPACE ART – Fall 2016

Resonance

RESONANCE is the culmination of the spatial and experiential research conducted by students in Derek Porter’s class, Light Space Art. Students collaborated to theorize, design and construct an operational artifact to be unveiled in support of the event Questioning Light, held at the New School University Center on November 3, 2016, featuring guest speaker Emrah Baki Ulas. RESONANCE uses light to spread the image of exhibition participants infinitely in two direction – into the past and future – as they move within the work, forcing them to confront their own positioning in a mechanized out-of-body experience. Consistent with the theories of artists studied in the class, the work is incomplete without incorporating the movement of the body, reminding us that the human component is the most vital of any designed experience.

The Light Space Art elective includes students from multiple disciplines and schools across Parsons School of Design. Phenomenal relationships between light, material, and space are explored along with the effects these dynamically shifting forces have on human perception. Empirical experiments are conducted through physical constructs so that the students experience first-hand a variety of human perceptual responses. many of the spatial, theoretical and material experiments conducted early in the semester converge in the final installation. Response to the unique site attributes, light relationships and conceptual intent are considered in relation to the physicality of the work and fabrication details.

Faculty: 
Derek Porter, Parsons School of Design School of Constructed Environments

Students:
Jonathan Beilin, MFA Design and Technology
Sudtida Benchahiransak, MFA Lighting Design
Paola Bernal Arguelles, MFA Lighting Design
Magnus Pind Bjerre, MFA Design and Technology
Tanner Chee, MFA Lighting Design & Interior Design
Chen Chen, MFA Lighting Design & Interior Design
Youn Hee Choi, MFA Lighting Design & Interior Design
Minyu Dong, MFA Lighting Design & M Architecture
Jimmie Drummond, MFA Lighting Design & M Arch
Joanna Filter, MFA Lighting Design & Interior Design