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  • Enlighten
    EnlightenArtist: Eleanor Gates-StuartComment:
  • Fluctuating between the worlds of early Baroque and late Ming/early Qing eras, the project explores a rather brief yet multi-faceted period of enlightened dialogue between Europe and China. Although characterised by a respectful scientific exchange,
  • Sans Armes Citoyens -
    Two years before the turn of the century, a committee chaired by Jean-Jacques Aillagon, at the time director of the Centre Pompidou, was entrusted with the task of defining the ceremonies to celebrate the millennium. Oddly enough, I was invited to
  • Stafford, Barbara M.. Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1994.
  • Penny, Simon. Virtual Reality as the End of the Enlightenment Project In Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology, edited by Gretchen Bender and Timothy Druckrey and NY Dia Center for the ArtsSeattle: Bay Press, 1994.
  • Stafford, Barbara Maria. Body Criticism. Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine. Cambridge, London: The MIT Press, 1991.
  • Floating Signs II -
    Three-part light installation Series 'Mirrors of the Unseen (MotU)' 'Floating Signs 2' features three light sticks, each consisting of a vertical bar of white flickering LEDs. For the viewer, the words and images seem to emerge from the bars,
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    Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother In 1785, the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), founder of the doctrine of Utilitarianism, began working on a plan for a model prison called the panopticon. The signature feature of
  • Event: From LIGHTING to ENLIGHTENMENT, Light Making SenseInstitution: 2015 International Lighting and Creative City ForumComment:
  • I Have a Wish -
    Have you ever had a wish filled with anticipation, hoping it would come true? Or have you ever looked forward to the future, eager to see those beautiful moments? “I Have a Wish" was born out of these thoughts. When you think of something, all that