Light Drifting

Lead Designers Hongyun?Terrence Bao

Entry Description

“Light Drifting” is a set of two-way digital artworks that uses poetic and abstract generative images to retell the interplay of light and shadow flowing in an afternoon at North Creek Park. The work gives the term ‘light’ a broader definition through the means of mixed media, capturing real-time data such as weather, wind direction, illumination, and more, making of the light’s migration an imaginative journey of enchantingly fluctuating graphics. The different effects and sensations produced by changes in the environment become more than the roaming of light, a dialog with nature in time and space. Data-driven generative art constructs new contexts that merge to form a marvelous atmosphere, creating a strong visual and emotional impact on the viewer.Using algorithmic modeling, a new computational, procedural language has emerged to combine randomness and the artist's subjective impulse, to construct co-creative and original works.We want to give 'light' a broader yet more refined definition, one resembling a painter’s brush strokes, bestowing layered and rich details to impress the viewer. At the same time, a scientific experimental device is designed using light, which extracts real-time data to generate different color images according to “Light Drifting”, and thus completes the sublimation from the instinctive intuition of light to the evolution of consciousness.