Spline: Audiovisual laser installation.

Robert Henke in his post-Ableton life has continued to see his stock rise on the media art scene. 120 meters of thin fabric are suspended from the ceiling to form a curved curtain. Four lasers in the corners of the room each project sixteen sharp beams of light onto it. The curtain’s shape has been calculated using the mathematical principle of spline interpolation. By tracing the surface with the laser beams, a complex geometric figure of 64 intersecting lines emerges, built of light and fog. Movements are synchronised with sonic events. Sound and lasers are controlled in realtime by an algorithmic process, creating an infinite number of variations over the course of the exhibition period.

DEEP WEB - kinetic audiovisual installation and performance.

Deep Web is a monumental immersive audiovisual installation and live performance created by light artist Christopher Bauder and composer and musician Robert Henke. Presented in enormous pitch dark indoor spaces, Deep Web plunges the audience into a ballet of iridescent kinetic light and surround sound. The work was presented as a preview at CTM 2016 Festival Berlin and will be followed by its original presentation at the Festival of Lights Lyon in December 2016.

The generative, luminous architectural structure weaves 175 motorized spheres and 12 high power laser systems into a 25 meter wide and 10 meter high super-structure, bringing to life a luminous analogy to the nodes and connections of digital networks. Moving up and down, and choreographed and synchronized to an original multi-channel musical score by Robert Henke, the spheres are illuminated by blasts of colourful laser beams resulting in three-dimensional sculptural light drawings and arrangements in cavernous darkness.

The installation brings together decades of separate research and experimentation by two artists with unique visions and passions for sound and light, and by innovative companies working in these fields. High-end laser system manufacturer LaserAnimation Sollinger provided the technical expertise and development for this very specific spatial laser setup. The high precision motor winch systems with real time feedback and the main control software are provided by Design Studio WHITEvoid in collaboration with Kinetic Lights. This novel combination of computer controlled kinetic elements and laser systems allows for setting animated end points to normally infinite laser beams. DEEP WEB uses light as a tangible material to construct threedimensional vector drawings in thin air.

The work was originally commissioned by the Festival of Lights Lyon 2015, and developed in cooperation with local producer Tetro. Due to the festival’s cancellation after the tragic events in Paris, Berliners had the unique chance to attend an exclusive preview before the project will be presented in December 2016 in Lyon for the Festival of Lights 2016.

The Artists:

An artist and designer working in the fields of light and installation art, media design and scenography, Christopher Bauder focuses on the translation of bits and bytes into objects and environments, and vice versa. Space, object, sound, light and interaction are key elements of his work. In 2004 he founded the multidisciplinary art and design studio WHITEvoid, which specializes in interactivity, media, interior architecture, and electronic engineering.

Bauder has brought his installations and performances to art events and spaces around the world, including Centre Pompidou Paris, MUTEK Montreal, Festival of Lights Lyon, Luminale Frankfurt, The Jewish Museum Berlin and The National Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan. He is best known for his city-wide light art installation “Lichtgrenze”, created in 2014 together with his brother Marc, for the 25th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and his large scale kinetic live shows ATOM and GRID. Both in cooperation with Robert Henke.

Alongside his numerous releases as Monolake, Robert Henke is also well known for the music, audiovisual installations and performances he has been creating under his own name since the early 90s. Due to his background in engineering and fascination with the beauty of technical objects, the development of his own instruments and algorithms has always been an integral part of his creative process. Henke also co-developed the omnipresent Ableton Live music software, which since its invention in 1999 has become the standard tool for electronic music production and completely redefined live performance practice.

His installations and performances have been presented at Tate Modern London, the Centre Pompidou Paris, PS-1 New York, MUDAM Luxembourg, MAK Vienna, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, and at countless festivals.

Olika Fountain.

Antalya Turkey Olika Fontain - Mardan Palace

Holograms you can touch using high-powered lasers

Three-dimensional, interactive holograms are now a reality, thanks to researchers in Japan who have used powerful, ultra-quick lasers to produce holograms that can be physically felt and respond to human touch.

According to volunteers who have tested these interactive holograms, the mid-air mirages feel somewhere between sandpaper and a static shock. They're made using tiny points of plasma light called voxels, that are created when the focused energy of a laser ionises the surrounding air.

The lasers used by the team from the University of Tsukuba's Digital Nature Group (DNG) are special femtosecond lasers transmitting in bursts of 30 to 270 femtoseconds (1 femtosecond is a quadrillionth of a second). Combined with a spatial light modulator, a mirror, and a Galvano scanner (used to precisely target lasers), the DNG team was able to create shapes up to 1 cm cubed with a resolution of up to 200,000 dots-per-second at the highest setting.

That high speed means the holograms can respond in real-time to touches and add a level of interactivity with the help of a camera underneath, which monitors finger and hand movements. While previous experiments have achieved similar results, the DNG researchers say their study is the first to offer such a high resolution without being harmful to the human touch.

The key to preventing the lasers from burning skin was reducing the duration of the laser's bursts - the sweet spot was between 50 milliseconds and 1 second. Team leader Yoichi Ochiai says the hologram size is limited by the size of the spatial light modulator included in the setup, and he's hoping to develop this proof-of-concept further in the future.

As for how the technology could eventually be used, imagine ticking off a checklist that hangs in the air, or animals in a holographic zoo you can reach out and touch - this is all a long way down the line, but the potential is there once scientists work out how to make these holograms larger and more varied.

"The spatial light modulator [can] modify the phases of light rates and produce various spatial distributions of light based on interference," explains the team from DNG. "Our results led to calmer and safer plasma generation that can be incorporated into our daily lives."

The same technique was used to display projects in the air, across fluorescent plates, in water and in a fluorescent solution. The experiment has been submitted as part of the SIGGRAPH 2015 exhibition later this year, covering computer graphics and interactive techniques.

THE MEMORY OF NELSON MANDELA WITH LASER DISPLAY.

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LaserX one of South Africa's laser production compagnies, paid tribute to the passing of Nelson Mandela, by choreographing a beautiful laser light show in the leader's honour.

In recognition of the recent passing of former President Nelson Mandela, LaserX (for their client The Western Cape Government), paid tribute to the great man by choreographing a laser light show to display Nelson Mandela’s face, name, and messages onto the side of beautiful Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.

The images displayed on the mountain were projected from approximately 1KM away, with the image size being around 300m x 200m. The images used depicted Mr Mandela in the various stages of his life, and were visible every evening until midnight from the December 8th through to the 16th.

Some of the messages displayed included famous quotes from Nelson Mandela, and calls for his charity 46664. To perform such a stunning laser display, the team at LaserX used Pangolin’s new BEYOND laser control software and FB3QS hardware, alongside 2 x 36W RTI Nano laser projectors. The new features inside of Pangolin’s BEYOND software (including the advanced drawing program and geometric correction features), allowed for LaserX to create these custom animations, and display them onto the side of Table Mountain in Cape Town.

China Light Rotterdam 2013.

Van 7 december 2012 t/m 14 februari 2013 stond China Light Rotterdam, het grootste Chinese lichtspektakel van Europa, in Het Park bij de Euromast in Rotterdam.

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In twee maanden tijd toverden tientallen Chinese kunstenaars het park aan de voet van de Euromast om tot een sprookjesachtig paradijs met 35 lichtgevende en bewegende beelden van sprookjesfiguren, bloemen, dieren een 100 meter lange Chinese draak en een gigantische Temple of Heaven. China Light Rotterdam was dé plek om te bezoeken in de donkere wintermaanden van 2012 / 2013.

Dhr. Zhu, directeur van China Light Festival B.V. kijkt terug op een geslaagd evenement; "Onze bezoekers hebben kennis gemaakt met de rijke Chinese traditie van lichtfestivals en hebben van dit evenement genoten. Nederland en China zijn samengekomen. Wij zijn er trots op dat 125.000 mensen ons evenement hebben bezocht."

China Light Rotterdam trok de volle aandacht van de pers. Meer dan 100 artikelen verschenen in (inter)nationale en lokale dagbladen, glossies, magazines en weekbladen etc. Ook radio en televisie wisten China Light Rotterdam te vinden. Het NOS journaal (1.527.000 kijkers) zag als eerste de lichtsculpturen aan gaan en ook Life4You, Piets Weerbericht en Studio Max Live bezochten het magische sprookjespark.

Laser Phosphor Display (LPD) how it works.

Laser Phosphor Display, or LPD, is the groundbreaking display technology and large format display platform invented by Prysm. It is the core of all Prysm Digital Display Solutions, and to many, it represents the next generation of large format digital displays. LPD consists of 3 main parts: the Laser Engine, the Laser Processor, and the Phosphor

Geconcentreerde laser op kampvuur.

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Geconcentreerde laser op kampvuur is beeldschoon
Een bijzonder effect ontstaat zodra deze geconcentreerde laser op een vuurtje wordt gericht.

 

The Shard of Glass / laser show.

Shard London Bridge or The Shard (formerly known as London Bridge Tower or the Shard of Glass) is a skyscraper in Southwark, London. Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 ft) above ground level, it is the tallest building in the European Union as of July 2012. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the 330-metre (1,083 ft) concrete tower at the Emley Moor transmitting station.
The Shard replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office building constructed on the site in 1975. Renzo Piano, the Shard's architect, worked with the architectural firm Broadway Malyan during the planning stage. The tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck -- the UK's highest -- on the 72nd floor, at a height of 245 metres (804 ft). The Shard was designed with an irregular pyramidal shape from the base to the top, and is clad entirely in glass. Its structure was completed in April 2012, and it opened to the public on 5 July 2012.



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Vodafone Christmas - Laser Graffiti.

This Christmas, we wanted to do something a little different - so we shipped in some cutting-edge laser graffiti technology from Spain and asked Ireland's most talented graffiti artists to paint Christmas messages from our Vodafone Playground Facebook wall on the sides of buildings across Ireland.

Armed with this seriously cool kit the team, including renowned street artist Maser, created spectacular shows in three Irish cities, painting the sides of iconic buildings with lasers, surprising and delighting unsuspecting Christmas shoppers and making people happy.

Laser Phosphor Display - LPD - How It Works

Behind the lasers and mirrors, Prysm is turning from a scrappy start-up to a major player. The company is announcing today an additional $100 million in equity funding, bringing their total raised financing to $135M. This latest round of funding comes Partech International and Artiman Ventures along with several global unnamed investors that wish to remain anonymous due to the innovative nature of Prysm’s technology.

The large round allows Prysm to start volume production of its displays as well as build a 150 member global support team. Amit Jain, founder and CEO of Prysm indicated in a released statement today that the funds will be used in part to train personal and support Prysm operations in 11 major worldwide markets.

Prysm, formally Spudnik, started demoing its novel large venue displays in 2010. The technology utilizes laser diodes and a surface-emissive phosphor panel in an affair much like that of a laser printer. Once directed by a mirror, the laser turns the phosphorus red, blue or green thus producing a flicker-free image that’s also void of motion blur. Prysm has built the LPD technology into panels that can be combined to produce a massive display. Best yet, it’s energy-efficient and an 80-inch screen only uses 100 watts; a 225-inch display (yep, they get that big) uses less energy than a hair dryer. Prysm states that amount is less than a third of today’s conventional displays.

Breaking into the display business is tough. Consumers and corporations alike tend to opt for traditional and proven technology rather than betting on upstarts. Despite the big claims of its groundbreaking technology, Prysm will be paddling against the display adoption current for a while. At least now they have the wind of an additional $100 to their back.

The mystery obelisk.

Dover Street Market is currently hosting an new interactive project, a collaboration with jewellery designer Hannah Martin, to showcase her new collection "The man who knows everything". The jewellery and the installation are inspired by the mysterious character of an alchemist who appears at different points in time and space. The mystery is reflected in the materials and the design language, bridging ancient past with sci-fi, terrestrial with alien. The polished column is made from black Corian, perfect for this sculpture thanks to its rich finish and seamless construction.

The obelisk is surround by a cage of laser beams, playing with the notion of protection for invaluable pieces of jewellery. However in this installation we invite visitors to play with the lasers, each of which triggers a different alarm-derived electronic sound that are then repeated in a loop to create a mysterious sound scape.

The Hannah Martin installation, designed by Moritz Waldemeyer, at London's Dover Street Market, 17 March 2011

SHOWstudio: Installation - The Man Who Knows Everything, by Hannah Martin from SHOWstudio on Vimeo.

Laser Powered Eco-Graffiti to London.

The technomagicians at Dentsu hit another home run with an interactive promotion for greentomatocars that uses lasers to sketch murals on buildings.
We admit that we're total fan boys for everything that Dentsu London create. Given their freaky-deaky fusions of design and high-tech, how could we not be? Their latest creation, promoting London's hybrid-vehicle taxi fleet greentomatocars, uses lime-green lasers to paint temporary doodles all over London's Battersea Power Station. Looks like they had a blast:
he laser-painting is supposed to give off the high-tech, yet scruffy vibe that greentomatocars presents with its eco-friendly cars. (The company even hacked free wifi and plug-in power into some of their vehicles.) Dentsu teamed up with Sensaa to make magic laser-wands connected to computers that project interactive digital "paint" onto surfaces in realtime, tracking the wand's movements. (An effect very similar to that invented by the Graffiti Research Lab, with their laser tagging.)

Lighter On London :: Laser Murals from greentomatocars on Vimeo.

The Last Holographic Artist.

Remember back in the old days when holograms were the wave of the future? Sadly, those days are long gone, replaced by stereo 3D glasses and crappy movies shot in 3D HD.

Een documentare over Doctor Laser (Dr. Jason Sapan)

Pink Floyd Materializes In London's Sky

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Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon cover materializing on Primrose Hill, in Regent's Park, London. Beautiful. Tripping. Awesome.
Sky Arts recreated the famous design in real life using lasers, neons, and smoke. The Great Gig in the Sky, indeed.

Komt er Laser Cinema in de bioscoop ??

At ShoWest this week, Laser Light Engines (LLE) announced they have solved the speckle problem, opening the door for laser-based digital cinema.
Insight Media AnalystLasers have a lot of advantages for projectors in general and digital cinema in particular. The low étendue of a laser allows high-brightness out of small microdisplays. The lack of UV in laser light can be important too, especially for LC-based projection systems. Laser primary colors are very saturated, leading to very large color gamuts and lasers can also be energy efficient. They can certainly be more energy efficient than the xenon lamps typically used in digital cinema and in the long term they may be more efficient than UHP-type lamps or LEDs.
So why aren’t there more laser projectors out there? The fundamental reason is the cost of purchasing the lasers: they aren’t cheap. Secondary reasons are the effect of laser speckle on image quality and laser safety issues. (Bill Beck, Co-founder and EVP of Business Development at LLE) Beck said one of the techniques LLE has used for some time is increasing the angular divergence of the laser beam, thereby reducing its spatial coherence. Spectral broadening of the laser beam also decreases the coherence and speckle, as in the red and blue channels of the LLE system. The breakthrough at LLE, according to Beck, was broadening the spectral bandwidth of the green channel
the results in the LLE labs are satisfied with the result. Now, the only remaining barrier to laser cinema is the cost issue.
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HDI concocts 100-inch laser-based 3D HDTV.

Look, we've seen an awful lot of HDTVs in our day -- one lap around the average CEDIA show floor makes your local Best Buy look awfully small -- and to this day we've yet to put our peepers on a more stunning set than Mitsubishi's LaserVue HDTV. Sure, it's fat, ugly and expensive, but the image is otherworldly. Before Mitsu can even take the logical next step, a California startup has arisen to introduce what it calls the world's first laser-based 3D HDTV. We're talking 1080p 3D like you've never seen before, with CTO Edmund Sandberg noting that this production is smoother than RealD, Dolby, film and pretty much every other 3D solution. The secret here is in the speed; this set is so fast that the image "no longer needs to flash from one eye to the other," and no flashing should equate to no headaches. Too bad there's no planned release date, but we're still cautiously optimistic for a sneak peek at CES 2010.
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3D adverts could appear out of thin air

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ADVERTISING displays could soon appear out of thin air, thanks to a laser system that projects moving 3D images in the sky. Firing hundreds of laser pulses each second creates the illusion of constant points of light in the air.


The system, developed by Burton of Kawasaki, Japan, focuses a laser pulse onto a point in the air to ionise it, briefly creating a ball of glowing plasma, dubbed a flashpoint. By firing hundreds of laser pulses each second, the system creates the illusion of many constant points of light.A new laser has increased the firing rate to 1000 flashpoints per second, while the pulses are now directed automatically using optics, allowing the system to create more complex 3D images - and even animations. New images released by Burton include stick figures and a version of the "Utah teapot" - a long-standing reference object in 3D programming.

The company is now investigating the use of the technology for outdoor advertisements, for which they will need to increase the size of the projections - currently less than a metre wide - by using more powerful lasers. It is aiming for a practical device by 2011. Other suggested applications include light displays that resemble fireworks, and 3D TV.

LightLane.

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LightLane bestaat uit een aantal lasers die in het donker een virtueel fietspad projecteren op de weg. Doordat deze zich op de fiets bevindt verplaatst het fietspad zich met de fietser mee. Automobilisten zien daardoor de fietser niet alleen beter, maar ze houden hierdoor ook veel meer afstand dan ze normaal zouden doen.


LightLane is een concept bedacht door twee Amerikanen uit Massachusetts,Alex Tee en Evan Gant. In Amerika kom je nauwelijks fietspaden tegen, en zijn automobilisten ook nauwelijks bedacht op fietsers op de rijbaan. Ook in Nederland kan dit virtuele fietspad ook veilig en nuttig werk doen, bijvoorbeeld op donkere bos- en landwegen waar geen fietspad aangelegd is.
Het wachten is nu nog op een fabrikant die de LightLane in productie durft te nemen.

Interactieve laser games

Weer een mooi voorbeeld van een huis, tuin en keuken ontwikkelaar. Deze meneer heeft er voor gezorgd dat je met een laser pointer (via een projecter) games kunt spelen, zelfs met z'n tweeen. In plaats van een muis of controller bestuur je dus nu met een een laser pointer. Hoe hij het precies heeft gedaan verteld hij niet, maar in de film hieronder kun je een demonstratie zien.