lightStruct catalog, Town of Windsor
April 1 and 2, 2022 7:30 – 10pm
Selected by nationally acclaimed curator of projection art Brett Phares, lightStruct shares a diverse array of artists each with a unique way of leveraging the medium. Can overlays of light help us re-explore architectural spaces we take for granted, and highlight how we experience those spaces differently? Can they coax meaning from the built environment and help reconnect us with the everyday?
Art map
1a. Max Hatler, Hong Kong, A Very Large Incease in the Size, Amount, or Importance of Something Over a Very Short Perieod of Time, 2015
2b. Ibid
3b. Ibid
2. Katerina Athanasopoulou
3a. Ian Gouldstone, London, Grid (variation 1) 2021
3b. Ibid
4. Lia
5. Jonathan McCabe
6. Steps
7. Robert Seidel, Berlin, Sfumato 2020
8. TBD
9. More Paths
10. Esan Atiq, The Sublime in Islam, 2019
Artist bios
Katerina Athanasopoulou is a London-based artist creating animated films exhibited in festivals and gallery spaces such as Clermont-Ferrand short film festival, the Onassis Foundation and the British Animation Awards. She is a PhD candidate at Plymouth University, researching the intersections between documentary and virtual reality. Her work explores bodily translations of physical place into digital space, through animation, performance and photogrammetry.
Ian Gouldstone is a BAFTA-winning artist and filmmaker whose work incorporates games, animation and new media. He has shown work and held events internationally at venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, The Eden Project, Cornwall, The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Ars Electronica, Linz, The National Videogame Arcade, Nottingham, The Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, SLEEPCENTER, New York and Sim-Smith, London. Ian is a founder of the Australian games collective Pachinko Pictures, a former member of the Computational Creativity Group at Goldsmiths, and also the Gesture and Narrative Language Group at the MIT Media Lab. He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in mathematics before studying animation at the Royal College of Art, and more recently completed his MFA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths. Based in southeast London, Ian Gouldstone is also a former trustee of Deptford X, London’s longest-running visual art festival.
Robert Seidel (*1977) began his studies in biology before transferring to the Bauhaus University Weimar to complete his degree in media design. His projections, installations and experimental films have been shown in numerous international festivals, as well as at galleries and museums such as the Palais des Beaux-Arts Lille, ZKM Karlsruhe, Art Center Nabi Seoul, Young Projects Los Angeles, Museum of Image and Sound São Paulo and MOCA Taipei. His works have been honoured with various prizes, including the KunstFilmBiennale Honorary Award and the Visual Music Award Frankfurt. In his work Seidel is interested in pushing the boundaries of abstracted beauty through cinematographic approaches, as well as ones drawn from science and technology. By the organic interplay of various structural, spatial and temporal concepts, he creates a continuously evolving complexity. Out of this multifaceted perspective emerges a narrative skeleton, through which viewers connects to the artwork on an evolutionary-derived and phylogenetic-fixated symbolic level. Robert Seidel lives and works in Berlin and Jena as an artist as well as a curator.