In the Lumia technique, the space between the[...]

Richard Land

01/04/1972

Eng

In the Lumia technique, the space between the light source and the screen is used by the artist to produce with objects specific images on the screen. I call the objects placed in this space modulators as they produce and modify the light images on the screen. Simple shadow techniques are capable of producing numerous variations in the shadows. When a small lamp is used, since it is not a point source of light, the sharpness of a shadow will vary with the position of the shadow-casting modulator from the screen. The closer the modulator is placed to the screen, the sharper will be its outline but at the sacrifice of size.

Richard Land, Kinetic Art: The Chromara, a Lumia Technique , in «Leonardo», Vol. 5, No. 2 (Spring, 1972), Mitt Press, 01/04/1972, Cambridge
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Space modulators (Eng)

Kinetic Art (Eng), Kinetic light paintings (Eng), Light modulator (Eng), Lumia (Eng), Lumia Techniques (Eng), Lumidyne System (Eng), Projection (Eng), Kinoptic System (Eng), Vision in motion (Eng)

Shadow techniques