 Very
few media have revolutionized and democratized our
living space in the last hundred years as much as
electrical light has. The most diverse areas of everyday
life, of working life, consumption, media, etc.,
have transformed through artificial light - and so
has art. Since the beginning of the last century,
artificial light has increasingly illuminated ever
more streets, shop windows, billboard signs and houses
in an unprecedented abundance and form. We reside
in cities and gardens of light. Observed from airplanes
and satellites, the nighttime Earth glows like a
cluster of stars. Light works become artificial stars
that change the visible world and change people's
lives as a whole. Ever since the victory over the
night and the sun, we have lived in paradises of
artificial light.
For nearly a hundred years, artists have confronted
this immaterial medium in the form of light bulbs,
luminous substances and neon tubes, glowing LEDs
and powerful floodlights. Art has increasingly
turned from the illusionary representation of natural
light to the real application of artificial light.
The artwork is transforming itself from a representative
screen depicting the wave phenomena of natural
light - the prismatic decomposition into rainbow
colors - into a real sender of electrons and photons
of artificial light. Artists create autonomous,
luminous objects and rooms, and even illuminate
entire landscapes.
 “Lifes light. Life is light. You can make
light do anything you want to. Photography means
'light writing'."
L. Ron Hubbard
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