Mexican in Sweden//Bachelor in Media & Communication//Producer & Consumer of Culture// Work // Thoughts // Projects // Dreams // and bunch of crap!
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ARTIST 4 A DAY: LowTech LiteBrite
Sweden is a very dark country during the winter. You learn then how to make your life a little bit cozier with candles, and strategic placed lamps. I started getting interested in how light affects your mood and how it can also be used in art. After one year trying to get into Light Installation course in Malmö Högskola, I finally got in the fall of 2008. As a part of the course we had to build our own light installation as a final project. I presented the concept Low-Tech Lite Brite to my group and they liked its so we stared building it.
LowTech LiteBrite used the same principle of a lighted board, but instead of pegs I used filter pieces. This gives the user the freedom to combine colors and create forms or abstract images.
CAN YOU SEE THROUGH YOUT NOSE?
Circo Ciego (Blind Circus) was a project created by soundmixer and artist Olga Cuéllar, in close collaboration with Sensorama (www.sensorama.com.mx).
The project consisted in a multi-sensory performance that stimulated the public’s experimentation through their senses. Combining coloured light, audio effects, vibrations, sensations and scents they created a journey where people have their chance to perceive and relate their surrounding using all their senses.
My roll in Circo Ciego consisted basically in assist Cuellar in the production of the performance “Causa en Cause” in Guadalajara. I travelled to Mexico City and together with Olga wrote a project plan that could be presented in my University where we wanted to make the first presentation during the “Communication Congress”.
The project got accepted and my roll took a new form, and became production manager and took care of all the things needed to arrange the installations in order to present “Causa en Cause”. People got very interested for the project and Circo Ciego got after this presentation a new season at our university and also a presentation at El Trompo (children’s museum in Guadalajara).
Working with Circo Ciego opened for me not only a new perspective in production, but also a window to the world where you can explore with all your senses. I got so inspired by this project that I wrote my theses about “ The manifestation of non verbal communication processes during the performance Causa en Cause”. All what I learned during this process I keep on applying in my actual projects and coaching.
