LIGHT SPACE ART - Fall 2017

Dissolve

DISSOLVE is a temporary art installation conducted by student in the Light Space Art elective, within the Master of Fine Arts Lighting Design program at Parsons School of Design. It looks at the point of confluence between interior and exterior, artificial light and natural light, as each dissolve into the other over time. The installation served as a feature and backdrop for the Natural Light and Architecture conference that took place at Arnhold Hall, The New School on October 26, 2017.The Master of Fine Arts Lighting Design program is housed within the School of Constructed Environments along with cognate disciplines of Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design. Here, all scales of the designed and constructed world – from that of a handheld object to urban planning – are studied in relation to human inhabitation and social value. The Lighting Design curriculum at Parsons is unique amongst its peers as it is the only academic program to offer an interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on the intellectual, aesthetic and technical dimensions of light.

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: 
Ana Lucia Ahumada, MFA Lighting Design 
Boyu Liu, MFA Interior Design
Chandni Azeez, MFA Interior Design & Lighting Design 
Chen Ling Tsao, MFA Interior Design
Clara Samudio Torres, MFA Lighting Design 
Iris Ahn, MFA Lighting Design
Jayati Gupta, MFA Interior Design
Jeana Chesnik, MFA Design and Technology
Jordan Benaderet, MFA Interior Design & Lighting Design
Kuan-I Li, MFA Lighting Design
Lin Zeng, MFA Interior Design 
Li-Yi Pan, MFA Lighting Design
Lucie Austen, MFA Lighting Design 
Marién Vélez, MFA Lighting Design
Maya (Hsiao-Yuan) Chang, MFA Lighting Design 
Sean Casey, MFA Lighting Design
Seoyeon Park, MFA Interior Design & Lighting Design 
Shashank Singal, MFA Lighting Design
Sruthi Pawels, Master of Architecture 
Tripti Sahni, MFA Lighting Design 
Yiming Liu, MFA Interior Design 
Yishan Zhuang, MFA Lighting Design