Concept brief...

What is your research topic?

 Light

What research will you do?

For my research there was two areas which I looked into. The first was article given to me by Anne on the Sensory Deception: Lab Mice Can 'Smell' Light  which illuminated the ability to cross senses. Secondly the Vogue article "Light Fantastic" by Leslie Camhi (march 2009).

This article discussed the Techno-sculptor Leo Villareal who creates futuristic installations that involve thousands of blinking LED's. 

What is your idea behind your piece?Why is this of interest or of importance to you?What will it look like?

Being that light is only experienced technically through 1 of the 5 sensors, I wanted in my project to illustrate that light can be experienced in different sense (for example through sound or kinetically). I also in my piece want people to think about the way that light effects our lives. My first sound piece I asked 30 people what they thought light was. Some people took a spiritual direction and some people took a more science approach in describing light. I then took 5 recordings of different people reading those 30 adjectives and placed them all at different amplitudes on the same track. This created a somewhat chaotic by synonymous feeling to the audio piece. This is important to me because I think idea of attempting to cross senses is fascinating, and I love the challenge of approaching light at a new angle.  For my final project I had many ideas of ways in which I could approach my project. One way  decided upon was to take a day to night video of the sky. This would show the circle of light and how it effects our lives everyday, how its lights up the sky. This would be followed by a commentary audio piece. Another idea I had was to follow along the same idea but instead of speeding up the footage of the sky, take footage of a melting candle, showing us that light doesn't last forever.