LIGHT BARRIER
2014
New Media Night Festival, Nikola-Lenivets RU
Convex mirrors, projection, scanning
New Media Night Festival, Nikola-Lenivets RU
Convex mirrors, projection, scanning
Kimchi and Chips create phantoms of light in the air, crossing millions of calibrated beams with their work Light Barrier, 2014.
The light installation creates floating graphic objects which animate through space as they do through time.
A fascination with natural light drove the technique of the impressionist painters, they explored new qualities of colour and the trail of time.
Kimchi and Chips' study of digital light discusses a new visual mechanic, their installation adding to the visual language of space and light.
As the artist's inquiry deepens, brush strokes become descriptive like code, detailing reality and allying light with canvas.
The Light Barrier is the universal law which separates light and material.
Both by limiting the actions of materials so that they cannot move like light, and by defining Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula.
Light Barrier was co-commissioned by FutureEverything and the British Council.
It premiered at New Media Night Festival, Nikola-Lenivets 4–6 June 2014.
Acknowledgements
Videography by
Kimchi and Chips
Alexander Delovoy
Алеся Мятлева
Sound design by
Junghoon Pi
Production design by
Onjeong Rhee
Thanks to
Lidia Khesed
Tom Higham
Related links
IMAGINEER - Light Barrier [pdf]
SPACE magazine vol. 563 No.1 Most Memorable Projects of 2014
Creative Applications / July 2014 Light Barrier – Millions of calibrated light beams create floating phantoms in the air
Creative Applications / July 2014 Kimchi and Chips materializes 3-dimensional sculptures from light
Designboom / August 2014 These are probably the coolest smoke rings ever made
WIRED / August 2014
SPACE magazine vol. 563 No.1 Most Memorable Projects of 2014
Creative Applications / July 2014 Light Barrier – Millions of calibrated light beams create floating phantoms in the air
Creative Applications / July 2014 Kimchi and Chips materializes 3-dimensional sculptures from light
Designboom / August 2014 These are probably the coolest smoke rings ever made
WIRED / August 2014
Acknowledgements
Videography by
Kimchi and Chips
Alexander Delovoy
Алеся Мятлева
Sound design by
Junghoon Pi
Production design by
Onjeong Rhee
Thanks to
Lidia Khesed
Tom Higham