Domestic Light: The Color of Home, a light installation-performance

Led by media artist Ian Winters, is an ongoing international art–research project exploring the relationship between light, home, and time through a global network of multispectral light sensors embedded in domestic windowsills around the world. This work-in-progress presentation marks the first public presentation of the custom-built multispectral LED light and sound instruments developed for the forthcoming immersive installation-performance.

Since the 2023 summer solstice, the project has been gathering continuous multispectral data on the color of light inside homes across multiple time zones, capturing wavelengths beyond the RGB color space of screens and projections. This two-year time-lapse forms a planetary portrait of daily rhythms, seasonal change, and lived domestic light.

At the core of this performance - installation are the newly developed multispectral LED light instruments, designed to reproduce and play back spectral light data collected from homes across the global sensor network. These instruments make it possible to spatialize and navigate the data by time, wavelength, and location, translating long-duration environmental observation into an embodied light experience.

As a work in progress the performance will follow the Milkbar dialogue tradition be followed by an informal reception to facilitate discussion and feedback.

Schedule

Saturday, January 31, 8:00 pm | Performance presentation. A live presentation of Domestic Light in development, featuring the multispectral LED instruments, followed by discussion and reception.

Sunday, February 1, 5:00 pm | Performance Presentation and technical demonstration, including a guided installation tour and the first public walkthrough of the multispectral LED system, followed by reception.

Location

Milk Bar: 241A South First Street, Richmond, CA

Cost

Admission - No one turned away and a voluntary donation of $20 is suggested to support the artists and the ongoing development of the Domestic Light project

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