Bruce Nauman-Changing Light Corridor with Rooms

During the 1960s and 1970s, Nauman created various claustrophobic and enclosed spaces that were designed to disorientate his audiences. In this installation, a long corridor is shrouded in darkness, whilst two rooms on either side are illuminated by bulbs that are timed to flash at different rates. The particular length and width of the corridor, together with the intensity of the intermittent lights, function to direct our movements as we traverse the space. No longer simply passive spectators, Nauman transforms us into active participants who are nevertheless controlled and manipulated by his reconstruction of the gallery’s layout.

picture from http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nauman-changing-light-corridor-with-rooms-ar00044

Reference:


NAUMAN, BRUCE., 1971. Changing Light Corridor with Rooms [online]. London: ARS, NY and DACS. Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nauman-changing-light-corridor-with-rooms-ar00044

Bruce Nauman. Live-Taped Video Corridor

Last century, Multi-media installations were changing the nature of the viewing subject in relation to the object-the work of art. Among a lot of artists, Bruce Nauman was recognised as potenctial of radical artworks.This trait can be seen in many his work, such as Green Corridor, Hayward Gallery a decade ago. An artist call Lorna Collins (2011) even mentioned Bruce's Hayward Gallery altered her to some changes. 

Seems like Bruce Nauman and I have some things in common---we both like to "decorate" corridors. One piece of his artworks named Live-Taped Video Corridor attracted me. It is a classic example of designing an environment which gives the occupant a strong feeling within their current surroundings. His creation brings a lot of psychological and physical emotion from those who are interacting with this man made environment. 

Bruce Nauman., Live-Taped Video Corridor
picture from Media Art Net (http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/live-taped-video-corridor/)

Bruce Nauman., Live-Taped Video Corridor
http://lornacollinsart.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/creating-views-interaction-experience/

Bruce Nauman., Live-Taped Video Corridor
picture from Media Art Net (http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/live-taped-video-corridor/)

In the closed-cicuit installation Live-Taped Video Corridor, a study from the Performance Corridor work group, Nauman set two monitors above one another at the end of a corridor almost ten meters long and only 50 cm wide. The lower monitor features a videotape of the corridor. The uppermost monitor shows a closed-circuit tape recording of a camera at the entrance to the corridor, positioned at a height of about three meters. On entering the corridor and approaching the monitors, you quickly come under the area surveyed by the camera. But the closer you get to the monitor, the further you are from the camera, with the result that your image on the monitor becomes increasingly smaller. Another cause of irritation: you see yourself from behind. Moreover, the feeling of alienation induced by walking away from yourself is heightened by your being enclosed in a narrow corridor. Here, rational orientation and emotional insecurity clash with each other. A person thus monitored suddenly slips into the role of someone monitoring their own activities. Thomas Y. Levin (2001).

Reference:

COLLINS, LORNA. CATHERINE., 2011.Creating Views, Interaction and Experience [online]. Available at: http://lornacollinsart.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/creating-views-interaction-experience/

THOMAS, Y. LEVIN., and PETER, WEIBEL., ed., 2002. CTRL [SPACE]: Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother. ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, and Massachussets Institute of Technology, MIT Press.

other artworks

In the earlier entrances, i said i want to use patterns lead people communicate. right now i have two diractions of this. they are similar to the works that some artists did.

one is "Subtile Public" by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. (video at: http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/subtitled_public.php) it is a very interesting and good way to interactive, and also it is good for me to learn from it. 

the other one is similar to these two artworks in Lonton lights exhibition (2013). They both use light and shadow to create patterns on the empty wall or surrounding. They are stay or move. But similarly, they all attract people to experence them.

In her large-scale interventions into natural and man-made landscape, Nancy Holt uses ‘locators’ – holes and tunnels – to channel the viewer’s vision and frame a particular view. Her particular concerns are to make people more aware of light, space and time, their own visual perception, and the order of the universe. One of her few indoor installations, Holes of Light (1973), consists of a central partition with a diagonal line of holes lit from either side. Here, she plays with the indeterminacy of light and variable viewing positions. The illumination constantly switches from one side of the partition to the other, creating alternate effects of light and shade.

Conrad Shawcross’ Slow Arc inside a Cube (2008) involves a complex play of moving light and shadows. It owes its genesis to an anecdote about the immensely complicated process of mapping the molecular structure of insulin by means of crystal radiography, a feat achieved by the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dorothy Hodgkin. Shawcross explains that though he has always made works with light and movement, he was never very interested in shadows until he read Hodgkin’s description of the process, which she compared to decoding the shape of a tree from the shadows its leaves cast on a wall.

Reference:


SHAWCROSS, CONRAN., 2009. Slow Arc inside a Cube IV [online]. London: Image courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery. Available at: http://www.haywardlightshow.co.uk/artists/

HOLT, NANCY., 1973. Holes of Light [online]. London: DACS. Available at: http://www.haywardlightshow.co.uk/artists/

corridor artworks----Bruce Nauman (Green Light Corridor)

Because of I decided my project to coriddor, I should see some work from other designer. Maybe they also doing corridor like Bruce Nauman (1970). or they were doing different work which is not corridor.

This is the piece of artwork by Bruce Nauman, called Green Lingt Corridor

pictures from http://lornacollinsart.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/creating-views-interaction-experience/

Some artists encourage their viewers to experience art in a different way to traditional terms, experiencing art with your whole body and through movement.

Nauman creates a disorientating experience which is methodised by the intensity of the fluorescent lighting. The narrow width and long length of the corridor combined, also induce a great sense of claustrophobia on its participants. he has produced a number of different experiences with one piece. First the experience of looking through the corridor before entering. The experience of walking the length of it, and finally the feelings and after effects of the journey through. Lorna Catherine Collins (2011).

So does my idea, i expect it offer different experiences. but it is not give a sense of claustrophobia, it suppose to give people a sense of comfort.

Reference:


COLLINS, LORNA. CATHERINE., 2011.Creating Views, Interaction and Experience [online]. Available at: http://lornacollinsart.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/creating-views-interaction-experience/

NAUMAN, BRUCE., 1971. Changing Light Corridor with Rooms [online]. London: ARS, NY and DACS. Available at: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/nauman-changing-light-corridor-with-rooms-ar00044

Project title

Through numerous thinking, sbrain stormings and changes, I partly keep the original idea, but make some changes.

  

Finally I find i still want to do something with people always experience but not often realize. Corridor is one of good choices. So i keep the corridor idea, choose the place will be the corridor.I want to create a colored corridor which can give people pleasure and comfort.This is also match ideo-pleasure, make people comfortable and give emotion. 

How it works:  

basically, it creates a warm or cold atmosphere by use light and coloers. use projector to decorate corridor with warm and cool colour. when less people passby, the corridor will turn into warm colour, give a "not lonely" feeling. When a lot of people come, it turns to cool colour, give a "calm" sensation.

Therefore, I call my project "corridor"

Martin Rieser

Martin Rieser is a expert of Digital Creativity in the Institute of Technologies.

By seeing his background (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rieser) and art works, include early works from 1990s in his personal website, and  recent project called songlines (2010). I realize he is a "fashion" person, because he can always find the new technology things and doing some interesting works with them.

Compare with Hemmer, I guess they got their ideas in different ways. I think when Rieser saw something new then think about do some works with it, and when Hemmer interesting in a idea, he think about is it valuable to work on with and find the technology to achieve it. However, it is not 100% to identity their mind, because human's minds are more complex. What am I trying to say is they are different people, they may think differenly, and both ways of they achieve their ideasare helpful for me to confirm my idea.

There is a work Rieser designed in 1988 called Electronic Forest. 

picture from http://www.martinrieser.com/ElectronicForest.htm

picture from http://www.martinrieser.com/ElectronicForest.htm

This collaboration with Electronic Musician Edward Williams featured 12 panels of Rainforest scenes created in Adobe Photoshop and Freehand and initially printed out in 120 A4 sections per panel.
Interactive sound devices based on "Soundbeam" were ceiling mounted and as an audience passed among the panels they triggered stored recordings of Rainforest sounds. Because the device was based on ultra sound detection, variations in visitor height would change the pitch and duration of emmitted sounds
It was first shown in the Autumn of 1991 at Prema Arts Centre in Dursley and later in the Old Bull Arts Centre in London.
It was then sponsored by Photobition who processed 12 foot by 8 foot colour panels, which were shown at the Exploratory Hands on Science Centre in Bristol in 1992. Apple Computer sponsored an early internet link to GreenNet which gave information on the habitat crisis in Brazil. A Hypercard stack was also produced to run in parallel with the internet information.

Reference:

Songlines, 2010. [video]. De Montfort University: Martin Rieser Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_5F1_su8CY

RIESER, MARTIN., 1991. Electronic Forest [online]. Prema Arts Centre, London: Rieser Martin. Available at: http://www.martinrieser.com/