‘Interactive light installation for an audience of one’

To me light and color have an amazingly strong effect. When I wake up in the morning and the sun shines, crystals hanging in my window form the most beautiful rainbows at my walls.
There are innumerable projects that make use of light. Some of them do not just create pretty pictures, but are based on deep scientific research.

‘Interactive light installation for an audience of one’
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In 2001 the artists Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson and Anthony Oliver travelled to Greenland where after 24 hour daylight summer, the onset of winter started. There the artists performed experiments associated with light and physiology.

The participant sits in a self illuminated cube where he benefits from the effects of polarised, full-spectrum light. The person sits on a translucent chair and the hands are on bronze electrodes, completing an electrical circuit. Then a reading is taken and the light generates exactly the light of the read data.

Most participant found it a very positive experience. Especially, during the dark and cold season, it ‘lights up’ people’s minds.