analog light box

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1 analog light box

2 analog digital

3 physical material (atoms) and digital media (bits)

4 adlv objectives to develop the strategies, tactics and techniques of analog/digital representation. working between analog and digital media emphasizing the migration between media chaotic & hybrid productive space where desk & computer coexist to examine the design opportunities afforded by new media technology. translate, re-interpret, and re-present relation between media = discovery of differences and benefits clarify, stimulate and develop what is being made to understand the constraints and possibilities of collaborative design poetics of interaction & dialog directs the design process improvisation: each member playing a role in the ensemble jazz: call and response

5 bauhaus tradition(s)

6 Josef Albers: color, light, found material

7 L Moholy-Nagy: Lightplay (Light-Space Modulator )

8 light box

9 moholy-nagy: diagram for a light box

10 light box exercise, 1942

11 photogram (photography without camera)

12 L Moholy-Nagy: Bauhaus in Dessau (photography with a camera)

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15 a pine cone laid on light sensitive paper and exposed to flashlight (M-N) 2. an egg beater (M-N). dictionary of a photogram

16 coarsely woven ribbon (M-N) 4. tracing paper, pebbles, shells, string and paper (John Buffalo) 5. a drawing made by a pinpoint flashlight (M-N) dictionary of a photogram

17 6 6. two hands on the photo paper in the developer exposed to light. The result is shown underneath as a 7 7. photogram (Robert Longini) dictionary of a photogram

18 8 8. Perforated cardboard and metal, wire mesh, wire, transparent plastic (M-N) dictionary of a photogram

19 Moholy-Nagy: Fotogramms

20 light modulator

21 every piece of paper, crumple or bent acts as a light modulator. Here are shown two aspects, positive and negative, or the same piece of rolled paper. Every object can be understood also as a photo modulator whether skin, stone, metal - anything which reflects light. light modulator 1940

22 feather as light modulator 1940

23 reflections and mirroring 1939

24 light modulator 1945

25 1. a sheet of white paper on a dark background. 2. cutting a slit in the paper a number of grey tones occur. 3. another cut is made. 4. one corner bent, causing a gradual darkening as the paper curves away from the light source. 5. the effects of bending up two sides. 6. fastening four corners produces more complicated shadows. 7. punching holes adds more values dictionary of a light modulator, 1946

26 light modulator, 1939

27 light modulators in metal are most intriguing if place on gray background on which the white reflections of shiny metal can be well distinguished light modulator (metal) 1939

28 paper modulator contrasted with a flat panel of grained wood light modulator 1939

29 light modulator (paper and string) 1937

30 L Moholy-Nagy: light & space modulator (thin plastic layers)

31 other experiments

32 other experiments Photographic experiments may embrace a wide territory: shadow observation of shapes on flat, curved or irregular surfaces, producing less or more emphasized dis. tortions; observation of textures in the form of collages; mirror combinations; positive and negative images; partial enlargement and reduction of suitable subject matters; use of prisms for shifting details of objects, for example, an ear in the place of an eye. Such experiments can be divided into three sections: light and objects; photographic optics; processing and its manifold combinations. These tasks clearly circumscribed at first can later develop into independent experiments. This is the prerogative of every research worker.

33 transparency on black 1943

34 reducing and magnifying 1943

35 face in a multiple mirror

36 can you see with your ear? or hear with your eye? shifting with prisms, 1943

37 photograph and its distortion behind corrugated glass 1944

38 electron micrograph 1940

39 a camera was held in front of a corrugated glass plate behind which three persons were standing distortion, 1945

40 solarization

41 texture produced by dropping oil into the developer

42 distortion in ferrotype

43 the ferrotype was lit by two spotights, their reflections cast on the wall and photographed reflections 1942

44 A long exposure of a revolving wire structure Virtual Volume, 1944

45 motion light cube

46 John Peterson 1973

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48 William A. Leonard 1973

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50 freshman colleagues

51 assignment: make a light box (projected color and light)

52 light box - december 1973

53 motion light cube 1974

54 Leonard s critique: looks like an egg-beater

55 response to criticism: 9 simultaneous rotating planes

56 given: design a one foot cube containing motion motion cube problem - spring 1974 (Cincinnati)

57 external - internal - intersitial

58 transparent/reflective cube

59 four transparent mirrored planes

60 horizontal compression

61 nine aligned planes (as two-sided mirrors)

62 mechanical system: motion mechanical system: light bulbs mechanical systems

63 complete system

64 it didn t work work

65 revised given: design a one foot cube containing motion & light neiman assignment: motion/light cube

66 mechanical system: motion with motors mechanical system: translucent light new mechanical system

67 rotation begins

68 misalignments begin

69 dynamic misalignment observed

70 dynamic misalignment established

71 misalignment

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