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Right Dichroic Blossom showcases Jason Bruges Studio’s ability to bring the world’s of art and science together. Reminiscent of a number of natural phenomena, from the branches of a tree to the connections made between synapses in our own bodies, this work evokes an emotive response


Client: Guo Rui Real Estate Development Company Ltd.


Location: Beijing, China Year: 2014


Media: Periscope LED light engines, bespoke mirror optics, bespoke dichroic crystals, IP camera, control system


Dimensions: 14.25m x 10m x 0.30m


Far right Liquid Crystal plays with the similarities between the flowing of water and the flowing of people through a space. Its individual panels transmit and reflect light at varying degrees, resulting in a shimmering effect. The work is a great example of the studio’s mission to use technology to help truly achieve artistic intent


Client: Henry B. Gonzales Convention Centre, PASA


Location: San Antonio, Texas, USA


Year: 2016


Media: LCD panels, custom electronics, steel frame, 3d printed components, sensors, terrazzo plinth.


Dimensions: 10m x 1.8m x 1.8m


Living sculptures


Operating at the creative cusp between art, architecture and technology, Jason Bruges Studio marks its 20th anniversary this year. Jill Entwistle talks to him about people, data and nature, and how his primarily light-based artworks influence the way spaces are inhabited


OVER RECENT DECADES there has been a healthy dismantling of pigeonholes in art, architecture and design. Perhaps most notable has been the erosion of the barrier between art and technology. Bifurcated by an education system that drove people down either the arts or science channel, the disciplines had come to be seen as inevitably requiring a different mindset and skill set. Studios such as that founded by Jason Bruges in 2002 have rather blown that thinking out of the water. JBS bills itself as ‘a pioneer of the hybrid space between art, architecture and technology’. Bruges’s roots are in architecture, but he has branched out into fertile, futuristic


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