A continually updated playlist of volumetric light art, for my session at NYU ITP Camp 2020. Underlined slide titles link to the videos, some are N/A. Why volumetric? IMHO, light is ephemeral, intangible energy - to be bent, shaped, reflected, projected. So art made of luminous surfaces such as light tubes feel more like “glow art” than “light art.” A simple test - can you touch the light?
I’m also seeking collaborators for a speculative virtual light show! Open to coders, composers, projectionists, 3D modelers, AR/VR, 360, web developers, designers, etc. Feel free to email me at studio@dyanjong.com
June 23, 2023
Medium: Joleko 800, Viper fog machines, LEE Filters
Dimensions: N/A
Commissioned by: LA Design Festival
Location: The ROW DTLA
Description:
October 15, 2020
Coming soon
Medium: Light installation using 2 K5600 Joleko 1600s
Dimensions: 100’ x 30’ x 20’
Location: El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, Adelanto, California
Description: Welcome is an immersive light installation in the El Mirage dry lakebed, a popular film location in California. The special effects fog diffracts into open gates of light, creating an opportunity in the bleak landscape.
Team:
Producer: Annee Elliot
Location Scout: Mike Green
Music: Light Lines by Lucy Yao
Still Photography: Driely Vieira
Cinematographer: Andrew Yuyi Truong
1st AC: Felipe Larrondo
Assistant: Ligeia Moltisanti
Color: Gabe Sanchez
Drone Dudes:
Pilot: Andrew Petersen
Camera Operator: Jake Howard
Drone Tech: Tyler Higgins
BTS photographer: Colin LeiboldSpecial thanks to Tribe7 for sponsoring Blackwing7 lenses, and SYNC Photo Rental for the equipment.
September 24, 2020 - present
Medium: Web-based virtual light and poetry installation made using UnityDimensions: N/A, size of your computer screenLocation: http://beyond.gardenCommissioned by: LA Design FestivalDescription: Web-VR poetry installation collaboration between Studio Dyan Jong, floorkids.studio, and Nick Gregg. Beyond Garden creates a space for healing, togetherness, and encounter, within the confines of a browser. The concept was led by a desire to create a digital Chinese garden, or "yuan," which are public spaces for visitors to contemplate the harmony of man and nature. As a visitor enters the mysterious, dune-like capsules throughout the landscape, they find themself immersed inside bi-lingual poems whispered and written by diasporic Chinese poets (JinJin Xu, Carlina Duan, Jiaoyang Li).
At-home pre-vis of parallel sunbeams at noon.
Research for an upcoming installation series.
February 08, 2020
Light installation commissioned for the Lunar New Year Festival in San Gabriel, Los Angeles, CA. Collaboration with Richard Tranley for Dopium LA,
This was our response to the brief, “What does the second generation view as prosperity?”
Our answer was a volumetric projection of the Chinese character for “individual”.
June 23, 2019
Light installation at the LA Plaza Village Apartments in Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA.
Commissioned for Dopium LA - RE:PURPOSE in conjunction with the LA Design Festival.
Special thanks to Kevin Burnstein, Richard Tranley and William Hu.
August 30 - September 02, 2018
Light installation, velour on 12’ x 12’ truss w/ Joleko
Freestanding Chinese moon gate, representing the corridor traversed between Taiwan & the 626 of LA.
The moon gate, a circle rising up out of the earth, is a traditional Chinese landscape element that serves as a portal between connected spaces. By stepping over the threshold, travelers symbolically transit the barrier separating one world from the next. The complete circle celebrates the family unit, the generational cycle of time, and a conduit for reunion.
Special thanks to Brian Wong, Kevin Burnstein, Loan Hoang, and Debbie Jong.
June 09, 2018
Collaboration of Dyan Jong and Eva Kang.
Light installation at the Architecture + Design Museum, LA.
Commissioned for Dopium LA [D/MENS/ONS] as a part of LA Design Festival.
Special thanks to Eva Huang for inspiration and support.
November 04, 2017
Site-specific light installation 35' x 36' x 7'
8000 beams of light, each representing one hundred of the estimated 800,000 Dreamers enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as of 2017
Commissioned for Dopium LA, Mandarin Plaza, Chinatown, LA
