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Light & Lighting Online Resources
- Interpreting Art With Light: Six techniques for displaying artwork and exhibits,Lighting Design & Application; Feb2018, Vol. 48 Issue 2, p26-30
- Color, Form, and Motion: Dimensions of a Musical Art of LightLeonardo, vl. 33, No. 5, (2000), pp. 355-360
- The Psycho-Social Influence of Lighting in Space Perception: An Experimental Proof of ConceptInternational Journal of Architectonic, Spatial, & Environmental Design; Jun2020, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p15-37
- Directing the Photography: Combining Cinematic Rules Indirect Light Controls and Lighting‐by‐ExampleComputer Graphics Forum; Oct2018, Vol. 37 Issue 7, p45-53
- Assembling Light: PET Wall InstallationJournal of Architectural Education (1984-). 62(2):30-36
Recommended Books on Lighting
Acquainted with the Night: Excursions through the World after Dark by Call Number: GT3408 .D48 2004
The Art of Light and Space by Call Number: N7430.5 .B88 1993
Catching the Light: the Entwined History of Light and Mind by Call Number: QC352 .Z35 1993
Color and Light in Nature by Call Number: QC355.2 .L96 1995
Dan Flavin: the Architecture of Light by Call Number: N6537.F55 A4 1999- Eyes, Lies and Illusions: The Art of Deception by Call Number: N7430.5 .M36 2004
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Call Number: E169.Z83 S628 2005
The Fire within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light by Call Number: QC352 .P34 1997ISBN: 0691043329Publication Date: 1997
Isamu Noguchi, Space of Akari and Stone by Call Number: NB237.N6 A4 1986
Light and Color in the Outdoors by Call Number: QC358.5 .M5613 1993ISBN: 0387979352Publication Date: 1995
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Call Number: TR849.M87 S55 2003ISBN: 0142004103Publication Date: 2004
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees by Call Number: N6537.I64 W4 1982ISBN: 0520256093Publication Date: 1982- Sight and Insight: A Prediction of New Perceptions in Art by Call Number: N66 .G82Publication Date: 1945
Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century by Call Number: N7430.4 .C73 1992ISBN: 0262031698Publication Date: 1990
Visual Music: Synesthesia in Art and Music since 1900 by Call Number: NX456 .V57 2005ISBN: 0500512175Publication Date: 2005
Books on Architectural Lighting
- Between Silence and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn by Call Number: NA737.K32 L62 1985ISBN: 0394736877Publication Date: 1985
The Secret of the Shadow: Light and Shadow in Architecture by Call Number: NA2794 .G45 2002ISBN: 3803006228Publication Date: 2002- Light in Architecture and Art: the Work of Dan Flavin by Call Number: N6537.F55 A4 2002Publication Date: 2002
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Websites
Center for Visual Music is a nonprofit film archive dedicated to visual music, experimental animation and avant-garde media.
CVM is commited to preservation, curation, education, scholarship, and dissemination of the film, performances and other media of this tradition, together with related historical documentation and artwork.
CVM is commited to preservation, curation, education, scholarship, and dissemination of the film, performances and other media of this tradition, together with related historical documentation and artwork.
LichtRouten Luedenscheid is an international platform focussing on the use of light in art and design.
Installations and Interventions in Public Space.
Kunsthalle Detroit is a Museum of Multimedia and Light-based Art founded in Detroit in 2010.
Kunsthalle Detroit documents contemporary visual culture through video and film, photography and light.
Exhibition “Light Art from Artificial Light” 19 November 2005 – 6 August 2006 at ZKM|Center for Art and Media.
Website of the magazine Architectural Lighting.
Biennale für Lichtkunst –private light in public spaces.
Luzinterruptus is an anonymous artistic group, who carries out urban interventions in public spaces. We use light as a raw material and the dark as our canvas.
Website primarily in Spanish.
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