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“Light is the first condition of all visibility.”

This project module is dedicated to the topic of light as an artistic and creative material. Light is omnipresent: it makes things visible, yet it is transparent itself. It lends spaces tranquillity, creates spatial presence, and makes spaces disappear. It is both representation and a means of representation – a fascinating material for artists and designers.

Digital technologies enable us to think of light in dynamic, responsive, and interactive ways, challenging us to develop new forms and modes of interaction.

A cooperation and joint exhibition with the Lichtwerkstatt Jena at the Abbe Center of Photonics, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, is planned. The makerspace works at the interface of knowledge and technology transfer between research, industry, and the regional maker community.

Together with this community of students, scientists, and hobbyists, ideas are to be exchanged, experimented with, developed, and prototyped in a hackathon format. The aim is to develop the potential of the interdisciplinary perspectives of art, design, technology, and research on the topic of light and create new approaches.

The cooperation between Bauhaus University Weimar and Friedrich Schiller University Jena is funded by the Bauhaus University Weimar’s Creative Fund: “Open Photonics – Light at the Intersection of Art and Science.”

With this project module students can initiate their own self-directed project, while still being provided conceptual and technical support. Students are encouraged to propose a practice-based artistic/design research project that is in line with their own interests and growing body of work. We support proposals that aim to arguably develop the students’ portfolio, skills and overall work in the field of:

Interactive Art / Light Art / Energy Harvesting / Physical, Tangible Computing / Spatial Interaction / Architectural Interfaces / 2D/3D Prototyping & Printed Electronics / Mobile, Location-based Applications / Artistic Research / Embodied Data

A mandatory theoretical and practical introduction for users of the new Interface Design 3DPrintLab.

This Blockmodul will give participants an insight into 3D printing, from modeling with different prototyping tools to prepare objects for printing, evaluating and selecting appropriate materials.

Digital and physical workflows.