Back in Durham for the fifth time

Heron

Jon Voss was born in Devon, UK and now resides in Antibes, France. He creates fine modern drawings and steel sculptures inspired by the industrial world and nature.

Lightbench

Bernd Spiecker produced his first bench in 1982 using acrylic material. He has since developed the idea of the Lightbench as a symbol of community. He plans to build 100 across the world in the hope that they will bring people from all backgrounds together.

Illumaphonium

Michael Davis is a musician and inventor.

Anonymous

Lighting Design Collective create imaginative, state-of-the-art lighting schemes for architecture and built environments using design research based on high tech applications, digital content and artistic assets.

Sagacity

Sagacity was commissioned as part of the Lumiere Durham 2017 BRILLIANT competition for anyone based in or originally from the North East with a bright idea for an installation.

Artist, curator and writer, Moesby’s work is under pinned through conversations as practice based research – real, overheard, visual, imagined, or virtual. Situated at the intersection of the visual arts, wellbeing and increasingly, technology, he is concerned with weather as metaphor, both the real ‘physical weather’ we experience and our ‘internal weather’.

ANON

UK 

Walter & Zoniel work within the mediums of installation, sculpture, photographic process, film and performance. Focussing upon enticing the viewer into thought and momentary transcendence, their work centres around the human condition viewed through the themes of our interconnectedness within the cosmos, nature and humankind.

Our Moon

UK 

For 30 years Hannah has created images, characters and performances worldwide. She grew up “on the road” with the celebrated Arts Company Welfare State International and then trained at Glasgow School of Art in Environmental Art. After graduating, she was moved to Amsterdam to work internationally for 5 years as designer, performer and core member of the radical Dutch Theatre Collective Dogtroep. Hannah qualified as a Celebrant/Officiant to lead public and personal ceremonies and then worked for 15 years as maker, deviser and Project Director with Welfare State International.

Dome and Arches

Italy

Italian architectural lighting firm Luminarie de Cagna is a family run business which has been lighting up festivals across Italy for more than 50 years and more recently appearing in festivals across the world.

Control No Control

Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1981, Daniel Iregui currently lives and produces all his work from Montréal, Canada. Founder of Iregular, an interactive art and design practice in Montreal, he has work in the field of interaction design for almost 10 years.

Art director made programmer, Daniel creates interactive experiences and light sculptures where design is as important as technology. He is very intrigued by the infinite and random combinations that are produced when a system is open to the public for them to transform it. “I create the system, the rules and the esthetic, but the result is always different. This is what makes me interested about adding interaction to my work.”

Daniel Iregui’s work, often signed as Iregular, has been presented by many music, light and new media festivals in Montreal and abroad. Created at IglooFest in Montreal in 2012, Control No Control has been hosted by various music, art and light international festivals such as Glow (Holland), Les Bains Numériques (Paris), Visual Art Week (Mexico), Shenzen Light Festival (China).

Drawn In Light

Amsterdam based Ralf Westerhof was initially active as a scenographer in small and mid-sized theatres and in location theatre. His interest and passion for theatre and especially dance, which he still actively practices, is visible in his work. His works are often kinetic and the experience of the audience is an important element in his artistic and presentation choices. His work taps into the physical and mental capacities we all have in common and not just on knowledge or familiarity with the framework it should be perceived from.

Everyone, from school kids to the elderly, from architects and art lovers to people that never see art, seems to be able to relate to the work. The minimal line drawings offer them only part of the image and it’s up to their minds to fill in the gaps continuously as they or the work moves. They become co-creators of what they see: it’s not just looking, it’s an active process, an experience.
 

Methods

Pablo Valbuena’s practice and research is focused on space, time and perception. Born in Spain and currently based in the south of France.

Some key elements of this exploration are the overlap of the real and the virtual, the generation of mental spaces by the observer, the dissolution of the boundaries between reality and perception, the links between space and time, the observer’s experience as focus of the work and the use of light and sound as prime matter. These ideas are materialised as site-specific, ephemeral interventions that build and transform space with perceptual tools rather than physical ones.

His work has been presented internationally in a wide range of contexts as site-specific commissions, museum and gallery exhibitions and large-scale urban interventions.

Entre Les Rangs

With more than 10 years of experience in designing a range of projects, including student housing, large-scale public art installations, mixed-use buildings, commercial establishments and public spaces, Rami Bebawi / KANVA treats each project as an opportunity to transform the built environment while telling stories. Each project is engaging, memorable and sensitive to human experience and contemporary culture.

Rami Bebawi / KANVA regularly collaborates with talented artists, musicians or creators to lead interdisciplinary research to maximise a project’s innovation potential. Entre les rangs was created and produced with the support of Quartier des Spectacles Partnership, Montreal.

The Umbrella Project

Bristol-based company, Cirque Bijou combine a pioneering spirit with sky-high production values, giving their shows a unique edge. They create shows in myriad environments with and for communities and clients worldwide, with emerging and world class artists and for audiences of 50 to tens of thousands. 

Horizontal Interference

The young artistic Polish duo Katarzyna Malejka and Joachim Sługocki studied at the department of visual arts at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Their work mostly explores abstract and geometric shapes, often embedded in natural environments. In addition to their collaborative works, Malejka explores new media through her own installations, while Slugocki is a painter and video artist.

Frequencies

Finland

Kari Kola has worked with light for around 17 years and I has produced over 2,000 projects. He’s worked with many historical castles and places. He has created light installations for unique international sites such as UNESCO HQ, Stonehenge, Villa de Laak, Saana Mountain. 

”Large outdoor installations are my greatest passion and my main expertise.”

Know Thyself

UK 

Know Thyself was commissioned as part of the Lumiere Durham 2017 BRILLIANT competition for anyone based in or originally from the North East with a bright idea for an installation.

White Line

Adam Frelin has shown widely at venues such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and College Art Association. Frelin has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo, among others. He has published two books of photography and has had several public artworks commissioned throughout the world. Most notably, he and his team were award a $1 million Public Art Challenge grant through Bloomberg Philanthropies to be lead artist on Breathing Lights, a multi-city temporary art installation that involves illuminating abandoned buildings with a breathing effect created with light.

Frelin received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA University of California, San Diego. Currently he is an Associate Professor of art at the SUNY University at Albany, and lives in Troy, NY.

Shimmer

Shimmer is an immersive journey underneath the glimmer and glow of repurposed cymbals.  Audiences could voyage under this row of 12 instruments to hear a soundscape emanating from the metal, deep and ethereal.

Visual Illusion

UK

Visual Illusion was commissioned as part of the Lumiere Durham 2017 BRILLIANT competition for anyone based in or originally from the North East with a bright idea for an installation.

What Matters

UK

Shuster + Moseley is the conceptual art studio of Claudia Moseley and Edward Shuster. The artists create light-mobiles, sculptural installation and immersive, meditative environments reflecting on the nature of consciousness and technology. 

Working with optics, geometry, light and glass, underpinned by a spirit of collaboration, the artists have developed projects with world-renowned scientists working in neuroscience, cosmology and imaging technologies, as well as architects, engineers and technicians. Their work is equally informed by research in anthropology, cosmology, philosophy, the esoteric arts and the poetics of space. Each project is conceived as an alchemy of elements, bringing this cross-disciplinary approach into focus through immersive and site-specific works that create ambient and meditative experiences.

Cosmoscope

Rob Godman (Soundtrack)

Nick Rothwell (Coding)

Simeon Nelson is a sculptor, new media and interdisciplinary artist interested in convergences between science, religion and art, complexity theory and relationships between art, architecture urban sites and the natural world.

After establishing himself as an artist in Australia and Asia in the 1990s, he moved to London in 2001 and is currently working on projects in Africa, Australia, Europe and the UK. He was a Finalist in the National Gallery of Australia’s National Sculpture Prize in 2005 and a Finalist in the 2003 Jerwood Sculpture Prize. Passages, a monograph on his work was published by The University of New South Wales Press, Sydney in 2000.

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Rob Godman is a composer, sound designer and programmer. He is Reader in Music at the University of Hertfordshire. As well as creating installation audio works he regularly performs live, focusing on a transparent relationship between technology, audience and performer.

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Nick Rothwell is a composer, performer, software architect, programmer and sound artist. He has built media performance systems for projects with Ballett Frankfurt and Vienna Volksoper (choreographer: Michael Klien) and Braunarts, and interactive installations for Sonic Arts Network, TECHNE (Istanbul) and the Kinetica kinetic art fair (London). He has worked at STEIM (Amsterdam), CAMAC (Paris) and ZKM (Karlsruhe) and has composed soundtracks for choreographers Aydin Teker (Istanbul) and Richard Siegal (Laban Centre), and performed with Laurie Booth (Dance Umbrella, New Territories), and at the Different Skies Festival (Arcosanti, Arizona), the ICA, and the Science Museum’s Dana Centre.
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Cosmic Architecture

Nina Dunn’s practice has always traversed the line between art and technology. Her work in visual art evolved into the use of integrated light design for film, theatre and live events. As head of Video and Digital Design at RADA, she’s one of the UK’s most prominent female video designers and over the past 10 years has created works for internationally acclaimed companies including The National Theatre, The Royal Opera House and The RSC. Cosmic Architecture was her first major public art commission and she has since created public works for the City of London and Emergency Exit Arts.

John Del’ Nero’s career in sound design spans across many disciplines, from designing the sound for The Rocky Horror Show in the West End to designing the sound aspects for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations in 2002.  John recently designed a sound installation for Salisbury Cathedral and he is currently working on a number of soundscapes celebrating the history of churches and villages in the UK.

Isobel Waller-Bridge is an award-winning composer at the forefront of a new wave of emerging artists in film, television and theatre. Her soundtracks include Vanity Fair, Vita & Virginia and Fleabag. Her trademark electronic sound worlds and sweeping melodies for large-scale orchestra have received wide critical acclaim.

The Birds

Jony Easterby is a producer and artist whose work explores the fragility of the natural world. He has created permanent light and sound works for sites around the UK, including White Cliffs of Dover and Grizedale Forest.

Mark Anderson uses light, sound, electronics, kinetics, fire and pyrotechnics to make site-specific temporary installations and performances.

Kathy Hinde’s work fuses nature and technology through audio-visual installations and performances.

Ulf Pedersen’s practice combines light and sound and his works often rival architecture in scale.

Pippa Taylor is a sculptor and painter specialising in wood carving and applied decorative painting.