Photos from the final presentations of projects in the Interaction of Light & Matter course at UChicago in Fall 2012.
Interaction of Light & Matter
Sidney Nagel and James Carpenter organised a collaborative art-science course at the University of Chicago this quarter. The course brought together students from the arts and sciences and challenged them to think about low-level light. The brief was to use their knowledge in their respective fields to end up with a final artistic exploration of the nature of low-level light.
I took photos at the final presentations. All the projects were quite interesting and innovative; and to my surprise very different from each other. Unfortunately I did not have my camera duringe one demonstration; and the project I participated in was demonstrated in utter darkness and so could not be photographed!
5 Responses:
I love these! Use of light and bokeh can be so beautiful :)
Hey Kartik, great shots! Can you please share some details about these projects, so we can better understand and appreciate the pictures?
@Sarah Thanks! I can finally take such pictures with my new lens... :)
@Varun I thought about writing a small description for each one, but the major aspect of every project was not the visual but the experience they created.
I decided that it would be quite a misrepresentation for me to write about them in any way.
Lovely sets! Quite an interesting idea for an exhibition and I can imagine the effect if one was there. Were these taken with the new 14-42 pancake?
A few of the pics were too blurry for my taste, since I wanted to see the aspect of "interaction of light with matter" there, but most were very beautiful to see.
@tgwtt These were taken with a 20mm/f1.7 pancake.