Water Light Graffiti: A Moisture-Sensitive Surface Embedded with LEDs Creates Illuminated Art. For the past few weeks artist Antonin Fourneau has been working at the Digitalarti Artlab in Paris creating what’s being called his Water Light Graffiti system.
The device utilizes a giant matrix of LEDs embedded in a moisture-sensitive panel that when exposed to water causes the lights inside to instantly illuminate. The fun thing is that almost anything becomes a temporary paintbrush: a wet hand, a squirt gun, a paintbrush or even an atomizer. Water Light Graffiti was recently put on display in Poitiers, France and you can watch the video above to see it in use, and here’s a short clip (in French) of Fourneau showing how the entire thing was constructed. Time-lapse Video of Historical Photograph Being Recreated by Maisie Broadhead. Artist Maisie Broadhead graduated the Royal College of Art in 2009 with a degree in jewelry but has since become known for her fine art photographic parodies where she creates modern interpretations of historical photos.
She also has fun ideas about what to do with your extra feet of extension cords, so you know. As part of an exhibition at the National Gallery, Broadhead and filmmaker Jack Cole were commissioned to create this video depicting one of her interpretations of a 19th century photograph shown here: At the gallery the video will play in close proximity to the actual photograph taken in 1844 titled Lady Elizabeth Eastlake (which bears an uncanny reseblance to actress Kristen Schaal, right?) By Scottish photography duo Hill & Adamson. Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light. This is kind of flying all over the internet right now, but I couldn’t resist sharing.
Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls. The jaw-dropping light painting above, made with an array of colored airplanes is currently on view at the Fly to Baku exhibition at De Pury Gallery in London through January 29th. (via art wednesday, fasels suppe) Edison’s Cradle? A Kinetic Toy Reinvented with Light. As part of his senior thesis exhibition at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, art student Yasutoki Kariya re-imagined the ubiquitous desktop gadget, Newton’s Cradle, using a lovely sequence of light bulbs.
Entitled Asobi (which translates roughly as “playing“) the 11-bulb installation creates a visual interpretation of the popular toy named after Sir Isaac Newton demonstrating his third law of motion regarding momentum: that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. However, instead of actual energy created by the kinetic force of steel balls, Kariya devised a method for using programmed light and two surreptitiously placed pistons to create this purely visual experience that’s arguably more mesmerizing than the original concept.
As an added super bonus, the team over at the Experiments in Motion blog created the animation above which easily contends for one of the most beautiful animated gifs I’ve ever seen, already racking up over 167,000 shares on Tumblr this weekend.