Nightlight

Feuerman, W

Nightlight

Feuerman, W

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Publisher:: Broken Dimanche Press
Publication Type:: Exhibition
Citation:: Expanded Architecture

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dc.contributor.author	Feuerman, W https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3458-7033	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Lovett, SB	en_US
dc.date	2011-10-26	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Expanded Architecture	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/32724
dc.description.abstract	`Nightlight', a project in the field of moving image and architecture; transplanted a familiar and simple everyday experience of Carriageworks into a constructed and beautiful experience at night. Presented as part of Expanded Architecture 2011 during Sydney Architecture Festival 2011, the installation utilised the agency of mapping as a generative tool to reproduce a spatial experience. Mapping an everyday sequence of movementlight formations from a splice of time`Nightlight transformed the natural light that penetrated the interior space during the day and made it visible in the dark, rendering an often invisible daily sequence of events, visible. For participants, a familiar sensory experience, a "normal" environmental condition, is artificially imposed during the darkness of night, turning what is typically a static space into an interactive environment shaped by the architectural characteristics of the space. Visitors experience a shifting perceptual condition, as a projected image emulates the sunlight casting its footprint across the ground. By focusing on the perceptual experiences of visitors, `Nightlight extends current research into the mechanics of visual perception. The research contributes to investigations into modes of architectural drawing and mapping and how these techniques can be used to uncover new spatial and perceptual potentials. New ways of seeing have produced clear disciplinary shifts and changes in the way that we practice and think about architecture. The exhibition was held at the Carriageworks, a nineteenth century industrial train depot transformed into one of Sydneys premiere artistic hubs and exhibition spaces. Expanded Architecture selected artists, film-makers, architects and design professionals to produce and exhibit site-specific projected installations, responding to the foyer space of Carriageworks.	en_US
dc.format	Installation	en_US
dc.publisher	Broken Dimanche Press	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Expanded Architecture	en_US
dc.title	Nightlight	en_US
dc.type	Exhibition
utslib.location	Carriageworks	en_US
utslib.for	1201 Architecture	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.place-of-publication	Carriageworks	en_US
pubs.start-date	2011-10-26	en_US
pubs.rights-statement	Nightlight is a site-specific installation in the field architecture. It was included in Expanded Architecture 2011, a group exhibition curated by Sarah Breen Lovett, Lee Stickells and Yvette Hamilton at CarriageWorks, Sydney. The aim of Expanded Architecture was to explore how an architectural site might be re-framed, re-understood and re-experienced. Drawing from a historical body of projected image installation and light art, the curators sought to re-engage with new ways of experiencing the city – reimaging and recalibrating the way we, as ‘modern’ subjects perceive and inhabit space. Mapping in architecture is typically static. The installation however used mapping as a generative tool to reproduce a dynamic spatial experience, one shaped specifically by the architectural characteristics of the space. Taking a ‘normal’ environmental condition, such as a sequence of light moving through the space, an often unobserved daily sequence of events is rendered visible. Through a constructed interactive environment, a projected image emulates the sunlight penetrating the darkness of the interior space casting its footprint across the ground. This project positions architecture within an expanded field of practice. It investigates how architectural drawing and mapping can be used to uncover new spatial and perceptual potentials. Expanded Architecture was part of the 2011 Sydney Architecture Festival.	en_US

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`Nightlight', a project in the field of moving image and architecture; transplanted a familiar and simple everyday experience of Carriageworks into a constructed and beautiful experience at night. Presented as part of Expanded Architecture 2011 during Sydney Architecture Festival 2011, the installation utilised the agency of mapping as a generative tool to reproduce a spatial experience. Mapping an everyday sequence of movementlight formations from a splice of time`Nightlight transformed the natural light that penetrated the interior space during the day and made it visible in the dark, rendering an often invisible daily sequence of events, visible. For participants, a familiar sensory experience, a "normal" environmental condition, is artificially imposed during the darkness of night, turning what is typically a static space into an interactive environment shaped by the architectural characteristics of the space. Visitors experience a shifting perceptual condition, as a projected image emulates the sunlight casting its footprint across the ground. By focusing on the perceptual experiences of visitors, `Nightlight extends current research into the mechanics of visual perception. The research contributes to investigations into modes of architectural drawing and mapping and how these techniques can be used to uncover new spatial and perceptual potentials. New ways of seeing have produced clear disciplinary shifts and changes in the way that we practice and think about architecture. The exhibition was held at the Carriageworks, a nineteenth century industrial train depot transformed into one of Sydneys premiere artistic hubs and exhibition spaces. Expanded Architecture selected artists, film-makers, architects and design professionals to produce and exhibit site-specific projected installations, responding to the foyer space of Carriageworks.

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