TECHNOLOGY / HELLENIC ILLUMINATION COMMITTEE WORKSHOP, GREECE DESIGN BY COMMITTEE
The Hellenic Illumination Committee, led by its president Georgios Paissidis, recently produced a number of experiments to see the effect of projections and UV lighting on varying subject matter, leading to some interesting results relating to saturation and chromacity.
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Top Different frames depict the effect of varying gobo projections on a bust. 1 - the original bust; 2 - a painted version that constitutes the basis for the respective gobo projection depicted in picture 3; 4 - the painted expression of the young version; 5 - the respective projection. Above A series of projection experiments: a) light pattern on tree foliage with a BARCO projector; b) lantern projection onto lantern body and diffuse light projection around lantern; c) shadow projection of man in right window.
The Hellenic Illumination Committee (HIC) completed its first Lighting Design Workshop on 28th October 2011. The workshop focused on the formation of the urban nightscape - the creative integration of highlighted cultural heritage elements into a fascinating urban nightscape, due to the unexpected appearance of monuments at night. Students enjoyed three days of learning and experiencing light and its manifestations at different sites. The lighting design workshop was supported by sponsors mondo*arc; Philips Lighting Greece; audio visual suppliers Telmaco; Swiss projection company Opticalight; lighting design practice Stilvi Lighting; the Greek radio station VIMA-FM and the Greek newspaper KATHIMERINI. As well as the HIC president, Georgios Paissidis, former PLDA president and new IALD professional member, two eminent lecturers supplemented a demanding education programme. Takis Koumbis, an architect and philosopher who teaches
Theory of Space at the Master Studies Programme of the High School for Fine Arts in Athens, convinced workshop participants of the relevance of darkness by explaining the relation of dim light to human scale and by identifying intense light as a tool moralising the violence of absolutism. Professor Denys Zacharopoulos, art historian at Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France and artistic director of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, helped workshop participants develop awareness of the historical role of lighting design in the perception of cultural heritage. In addition, Sophia Papacosta (Master of Arts at Brighton University, UK), visual artist and illustrator and lighting designer Iva Vassileva, served as workshop heads and provided guidance to the students relating to an artistic and architectural approach to lighting design respectively. One important task for the workshop participants was to correspond to the challenge of cultivating a sense of historical
time by employing light projections onto a bust, depicting various facial expressions. The drawn version of the facial expression, projected in shaped light, and its uptake from the sculpture, merge into one inseparable impression bringing painting, sculpture and light art together. The artificially rejuvenated face of the bust of Dimitrios Aiginitis through an appropriate gobo projection, presented him as a young man and introduced the exploration of a remoter past that surpasses the look of the untouched bust sculpture. Aignitis, a famous astronomer of his time, seems to be a contemporary scientist when his bust face appears younger. Light becomes a tool that bridges the gap between generations. Another task of the workshop was the development of skills to exploit the brightness latency of saturated colours, according to the Helmholtz Kohlrausch Effect. A white light reflected by the green foliage of a bush was compared with the reflection of a light emanated by the same bush when lit by
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