Light worshop as part of AD508, Graduate Seminar, Prof. Daniel Sauter, held by Prof. Fabian Winkler, Electronic + Time-Based Art, Purdue University. The workshop is open to graduate students from all areas within the School of Art + Design. Tuesday, March 20, 2 pm CVRA, A + A 3304 Graduate Seminar Lecture Light as Inter-Medium
Light's exceptional opportunities for artistic expression lie in its potential to create new, artificial realities and to transform objects and environments visually and ideologically. This workshop is a laboratory for the experimental exploration of light and shadows. We will build light modulators, simple structures that modulate (i.e. reflect, absorb and diffuse) rays of light and observe their changing appearance in different light situations. The laboratory features two configurable lighting environments: one with an orbiting light source, the other one with additive color mixing possibilities. Furthermore, the workshop briefly introduces strategies for interactive lighting control using Max/MSP software and the DMX communication protocol.
Design Colloquium Lecture:
(im)possible worlds
Lecture Hall D1
This lecture proposes new practices for looking at familiar objects and spaces around us and suggests critical, surprising and sometimes humorous ways to reinterpret and transform them. I will show examples of my own art practice including interactive systems, robotics and site-specific installation. In these works I'll address issues of audience participation, poly-sensorial immersion, technology's impact on society and the excavation of forgotten media utopias.
Setup as used during the workshop, DMX Lighting Control using MaxMSP:
Software:
Arduino + Max/MSP examples
- DMX USB PRO light sliders Max patch
- dmxusbpro_manual.pdf
- Arduino Microcontroller to Max/MSP (Max patch + Arduino .pdf file)
- Sound input Max patch
- Using Sensors with the Arduino Microcontroller (Arduino_workshop_sensors.pdf)
http://daniel-sauter.com/documents/DMX_MAX_Arduino.zip
Max/MSP:
http://cycling74.com
Arduino:
http://www.arduino.cc/
Hardware:
1) USB computer interface (Entec DMX USB PRO) to connect computer to Dimmer Pack :
http://www.enttec.com/index.php?menu=Products=70304=links
Driver:
http://www.enttec.com/dmx_usb/vcom_setup.exe
Example Software:
http://www.enttec.com/index.php?main_menu=downloads?=70304&show=downloads&name=dmxusbpro
2) USBDMXPro external for Max/MSP, to control the DMX USB Pro interface connected to the Dimmer Pack: http://www.nullmedium.de/dev/dmxusbpro/
3) Leviton/NSI D4-DMX 4-ch. Programmable Dimmer Pack
http://www.fullcompass.com/product/253620.html
4) Ellipsoidal Spot (500 Watts): Rotating Light Modulator station
Or 5) Fresnel Spot (500-750 Watts): RGB Mixing station
Or 6) Framing Spotlight (variable zoom): RGB Mixing station
Lighting Equipment Stores in Chicago:
Chicago Spotlight
1658 W. Carroll St.
Chicago
(312) 455-1171
Designlab Chicago
328 N. Albany
Chicago
(800) 433-3752
Grand Stage
630 W Lake St.
Chicago
(800) 621-2181
