LIGHT SPACE ART - Fall 2019

Outside In — Inside Out


OUTSIDE IN / INSIDE OUT is a temporary art installation created by students in the Light Space Art elective at Parsons School of Design. Two material-based installations were created to compare how different approaches to reflection, angle of view and color saturation may perceptually displace or alter the viewer’s ability to perceive reality between interior and exterior. We landed on the experiential interest of obscuring the view between interior/exterior as a means to displace or contextualize the perceived reality between the two. From a spatial standpoint, this involved the insertion of an intervention at the building façade, manipulating the views between interior and exterior at the stairway.

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: 
Achilleas Ambatzidis, BFA Fine Art 
Sonia Colunga, MFA Design and Technology 
Fiel Guhit, MFA Design and Technology
Mina Guo (Yuhong), MFA Interior Design and Lighting Design
Yin He, MFA Lighting Design 
Cristina Hurtado de Mendoza, BFA Architectural Design
Alexandrea Llerena, MFA Interior Design and Lighting Design
Yiping Ma (Nami), MFA Interior Design 
Trinetra Manickavasagam, MFA Lighting Design 
Jazsalyn McNeil, MFA Design and Technology 
Zaib Momin, Masters in Architecture
Eve Nova, BFA Integrated Design and BA Culture & Media
Ayla Shalhoub, MFA Lighting Design 
Manisha Van Ecka, MFA Lighting Design
Shi Yan (Rock), MFA Interior Design and Lighting Design