OSLO LUX (2015)

PAOLO DI TRAPANI
is a physicist, a Professor of Optics at Insubria University in Como, IT ( >140 ISI publications in laser-nonlinear optics, and a dozen of patents), and the President/CEO of CoeLux srl.

In addition to academic activities, in 2001 Paolo created Di Luce In Luce, a wide-audience-oriented theatrical performance, which proposes an indoor, true, physical reconstruction of spectacular optical atmospheric phenomena: clear skys and storms, fog and rainbows, the colours of sky/sun lights and shadows, the glimpse of the sun during an eclipse through a foliage, etc. are all staged indoors together with examples of paintings, architecture, literature, photography, music and cinema masterpieces. By witnessing this experience, a regained awareness of light occurs and people start noticing the beauty of the outdoors as they have never seen before, while art gets connected back to everyday life (www.diluceinluce.eu).

As a follow up, Paolo has developed CoeLux®, a technology that artificially reproduces the sky and Sun that are virtually undistinguishable from reality. CoeLux® offers ground-breaking solutions for architecture and the real estate industry, warranting high living comfort no matter how far removed from the outdoors. Healthcare, hospitality, retail and residential are some of first important markets to be affected. CoeLux® won the LuxAward 2014 as “the light source innovation of the year”.

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ANTHONY EVANS
Originally from UK, he holds an MBA from INSEAD, a MA in Maths from the University of Cambridge and is a graduate of Singularity University’s GSP program. He is both a Louis Frank and Oppidan scholar and worked for six years as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman and Bain & Company. Antony is the CoFounder of the Glowing Plant project, in San Francisco, a synthetic biology application using bioluminescent to make plants glow in the dark.

Glowing Plant website: www.glowingplant.com

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• EXHIBITED WORK: GLOWING PLANT

LITTLE SUN
is an attractive, high-quality solar-powered LED lamp developed by artist Olafur Eliassonand engineer Frederik Ottesen. It is a a social business focused on getting clean, reliable, affordable light to the 1.1 billion people worldwide without access to electricity. The little Sun project is connecting the world through sharing light.

ANDREA HEUER,
sales and marketing representative of the Little Sun lamp in the Global North – primarily Europe and the US, will present the project. She is main point of contact for all Little Sun’s diverse retail partners. They range from art institutions and museums over design and interior stores, the kids and gifts sector, to larger corporates. Andrea works to promote Little Sun’s main goal of sustainable energy access for all through presentations at conferences all over Europe.  Her background is from the live music industry organising and booking tours for international artists across Europe.

Little Sun is a social business and global project addressing the need for light in a sustainable way that benefits communities without electricity, creates local jobs, and generates local profits. Little Sun is currently distribution in over 10 African countries, including in Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Ghana – as well as in Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, and the United States.

Launched in July 2012 at London’s Tate Modern, the Little Sun project has since distributed over 200,000 Little Sun lamps worldwide – and that number is quickly growing.

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CHRISTINE ISTAD
is working with photography, video and installation. She has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in both Norway and abroad. She has exhibited at a.o. KUBE Art Museum, Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo Art Center, and Landmark Bergen Art Hall. Istad has made a series of public, site-specific projects such as; several landscape projects at Henie Onstad Art Center, DeFence, Oslo and Traveling SUN, Norway, UK and Iceland. She has participated at the regional exhibitions and her works have been purchased by a.o. KUBE Art Museum, Prime Ministers Office and LUAG Collection, PA, USA. She has received her education from Westerdals School of Communication and Parsons School of Design in New York. Istad has received a series of project grants, artist stipends and support from the government of Norway. She is part of the artist group Open Space.

LISA PACINI
is an American artist who has lived and worked in Norway for twenty-four years. Her work’s focus is primarily self-produced, public, site-specific projects. such as: The National Artist House, The Royal Palace Garden, The former Opera House and the Central Norwegian Government building, Oslo, Norway. She has been selected to participate in exhibitions in Germany and Holland and been a visiting artist at the Scandinavian institute in Rome and The American Academy in Rome. Her artwork has been purchased by, among others; LUAG Collection, PA, USA. Oslo Museum, Bærum Kommune and private collectors. She has received education from Rhode Island School of Design, Yale University, S.U.N.Y Purchase and The National Art Academy of Norway. Pacini has received a series of project grants, artist stipends and support from the government of Norway, Holland and Germany.

TRAVELING SUN
is a road trip and a site specific art project made by the artists Christine Istad and Lisa Pacini who wanted to bring the ‘SUN’ from Oslo to Tromsø, north of Norway as a gesture.

For those of us living in the north the sun or lack of it has an immense impact on our lives. Our aim with our art project is to bring light to dark places in the north during winter months, meet people and share with the rest of the world through social media the beauty of the unspoiled nature that is to be found in all of the Nordic countries.

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• EXHIBITED WORK: TRAVELING SUN

KOO JEONG A
Since the 1990s Koo has been working on the reinvention of spaces with site specific works. Her works frequently include architectural elements, drawings, fictions, poetries, publications, installations, sculptures, films, audio works and architecture projects. Koo’s most recent project is a skatepark pavilion in collaboration with L’Escault Architectures and is located on Vassivière Island, France. It is the first of a series.

Koo Jeong A has collaborated with Belgian firm l’escaut architectures to design a concrete sculpture which features a composition of different bowls connected by one tunnel and a cradle. located on Vassivière island in France, ‘otro’ stands as a fully functioning skate park, but this one’s a little bit different – it’s glow-in-the-dark eliminating the complications of an evening skate session. Drawn to the surrounding mysterious wooded french landscape, the Korean artist wanted to create a dreamscape amidst the natural surroundings. The artwork is something that is meant to live and be used, providing a sensorial experience to skaters and spectators alike.

Website:
More about the project: www.designboom.com/design/glow-in-the-dark-skatepark

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• EXHIBITED WORK: GLOW IN THE DARK SKATEPARK

ANTHONY ROWE
is a Research Fellow at Oslo school of Architecture and Design, and also founder and creative lead of Squidsoup, an international experimental digital arts group that have been exploring the overlaps between sound, interaction, real and virtual spaces since 1997. Squidsoup’s work has been shown internationally at numerous events including Ars Electronica, Siggraph, the V&A and ISEA.

NATASHA BARRETT
is an international renown composer working interdisciplinary with music, research and creative uses of sound. She will talk about her latest work combining bioluminescence with sound.

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• EXHIBITED WORK : WE ARE NOT ALONE

HELGA ISELIN WÅSETH
has 15 years of experience with lighting and lighting design. She is a graduate lighting designer from HBV i Drammen and has previously worked with theatre lighting in Norway and Denmark. At her current employment at ÅF Lighting her primary tasks include: analysis, concept development and lighting design of indoor and outdoor lighting facilities. She takes experience from her previous work with theater lighting into her lighting concepts and the planning of installations in public spaces.

Helga is also engaged as a speaker for various educational institutions such as NTNU, HIOA, NMBU and Lyskultur.

“MAKING USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGY IN PUBLIC LIGHTING”
Helga Iselin Wåseth will talk about the challenges ÅF Lighting faces when implementing new, or different technology in public areas and in municipal operating norms. She will use the new lighting system in Akerselva as an example while also looking at lighting in public spaces in terms of safety, security and esthetics. With this background she will also discuss the use of bioluminescence in public lighting in the future.

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EDITH ISDAL has a background from design and architecture. Her work explores diverse media and methods, analogue and digital – with the goal of creating visual and engaging experiences.

At LUX she will talk about her exhibited installation “Living Light” – and share her experiences with growing bioluminescent algae – and creating a light installation based on living organisms.

LIVING LIGHT is an audiovisual installation exploring and combining the fields of biology, design and art – incorporating the monocellular algae Dinoflagella Pyrocystis Fusformis which use photosynthesis as a source of energy. At night this type of algae demonstrates bioluminescense when physically disturbed and emits short bursts of blue light – lasting only for a brief second – before returning to darkness.

Stahl STENSLIE

is an artist, curator and researcher specializing in experimental media art, interactive experiences and disruptive technologies. He focuses on art and expressions that challenge ordinary ways of perceiving the world. His practice asks the questions we tend to avoid or where the answers lie in the shadows of existence. Keywords of his practice are somaesthetics, unstable media, transgression and the numinous. The technological focus in his works is on the art of the recently possible – such as i) panhaptic communication on Smartphones, ii) somatic and holophonic soundspaces, and iii) disruptive, open source design for low cost 3D print.

As co-founder of Oslo LUX he will talk about innovative use of bioluminescene in art, architecture and design.

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ARCHIPELAGO |ˌɑːkɪˈpɛləgəʊ|
by Svein Inge Bjørkhaug & Jianan Qu

noun (pl.ARCHIPELAGOS or ARCHIPELAGOES)

•  a large group or chain of islands: the Malay Archipelago.
•  any large body of water with many islands.
•  utopia.
•  fading trace / glow.
•  future of the north pole.
•  surface collision between connecting points.
•  the Archipelago, the Aegean Sea.
•  instagram your contribution #archipelago #utopia #oslolux
•  installation, mixed media, 2015

In an attempt of sculpting utopia, Archipelago is a mixed media installation created to explore the materiality of Aluminate. In a blitz of lights the surface changes from white to a range of colors. It creates a surface of glow which leaves a message that is fading out. The surface recharges in intervals and a new archipelago appears in reincarnation.

Instagram your version of utopia #archipelago #utopia  #oslolux

http://thisisme.im/
http://jiananqu.com/

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BIOLUMINESCENT DEVICES / EDUARDO MAYORAL GONZALEZ
The project seeks to design and fabricate glowing devices that do not consume electricity through the manipulation of bioluminescent populations of micro-organisms. To achieve this goal, two different species are tested. https://eduardomayoral.wordpress.com/

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