LIGHT SYMPATHY – Marco Brianza

MARCO BRIANZA – Light Sympathy, 2010
Installation: terracotta oil lamp, camera, computer, LED lights, variable dimensions.
Technical sponsors: AEMI, LuxPulse

The installation suggests a link between the latest lighting technologies, to be shown alongside at “Light+Building” fair and the ones used at the dawn of artificial light. By means of an ancient Roman oil lamp – that burns olive oil – from the museum’s exhibits, the work captures the flickering of the flame through a sensor and reproduces it in real-time, amplified, through the Gothic windows of the historical building, creating a link of “syn-patheia” between past and present.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Video courtesy of Frankfurter Allgemeine