Department:

Interior Design and Design

Course Leader:

conf.dr.arh. Cristina Pană

Learning outcomes:

to meet light artists, to understand the effects of light, to experiment and create installations for events dedicated to light

Content:

Introduction. Light art forms – from cave firelight to AI 2024 art
UAUIM experiments – festival of light 2025
Light artists - multidisciplinary - case studies
Olafur Eliasson – London (2019), geometry, perception, environment, design, menu, recycling, urban installations
Light artists - lit environments - case studies
Dan Flavin, James Turrell – Guggenheim, Unna
Artists of Light and Shadow - Case Studies
Kumi Yamashita, Fabrizio Cornelli
Festivals of light – the relationship with architecture - projections and design of independent objects, temporary exhibitions
Museums of light – Budapest, Unna, Rome...
Experimenting spaces, optical illusions
Ephemeral light art - Light painting - from Picasso to SDV, Light graffiti, Guerilla Lighting, scenography

Teaching Method:

Pdf presentations, visits, guests

Assessment:

Presentation of studies, exam

Bibliography:

http://www.lightpaintings.com/
https://justineemard.com/exhibition-superluminallight-art-museum-budapest/
https://www.lichtkunst-unna.de/en/museum
https://canjournal.org/2019/11/between-light-and-shadow-at-the-toledo-museum-of-art/
https://www.moca.org/exhibition/olafur-eliasson-open
https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en/exhibitions/olafur-eliasson/
https://www.kanazawa21.jp/data_list.php?g=30&d=10&lng=e
https://www.aros.dk/en/art/the-collection/olafur-eliasson-your-rainbow-panorama-2011/