LIGHT SPACE ART - Fall 2018

Peripheral Disturbance

PERIPHERAL DISTURBANCE is a temporary art installation created by students in the Light Space Art elective at Parsons School of Design. This course, emerging out of the MFA Lighting Design program, investigates the relationship between light, material and spatial context as provocation to trigger targeted perceptual response. An undulating framework wrapped with monofilament line disrupts the normal visual connection between interior and exterior as passersby move along this building edge. The public opening for Peripheral Disturbance coincided with the Light for Ambient Communication public talk given by Tapio Rosenius on November 7, 2018.

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:
Reisha Duarte, MFA Lighting Design 
Annia Elbudaiwi, AAS  Interior Design
Aldo Jacques Espina, MFA Lighting Design 
Nicolas Herrera,  MFA Lighting Design & Interior Design 
Naser Kalhori, Master of Architecture 
Suji Lee, MFA Lighting Design & Interior Design 
Weilin Li, MFA Design Technology 
Xiaoyu Liu, MFA Design Technology 
Aziz Osko, MFA Interior Design
Tan Ping, MFA Interior Design 
Sasha Pradhan, MFA Lighting Design & Interior Design 
Lavonne Sun, MFA Design Technology 
Jenya Uzhegova, Master of Architecture 
Jon Q Ye, MFA Interior Design
Leshi Zou, MFA Lighting Design