3D-printed, microprocessor controlled open source light object, 2016-2023

3D Files and source codes available here, soon!
Artist-made ongoing edition available this well-hidden shop





These are editions i have made for past exhibitions.
3D-printed, microprocessor controlled open source light object, 2016-2023
3D Files and source codes available here, soon!
Artist-made ongoing edition available this well-hidden shop
The object is back lit by LEDs being controlled in two groups by a microcontroller. On the opposite sides, the colors used are also opposing each other (in HLS color space), which means the light around it will mix to something of white light. After slowly crawling through the spectrum, an hour later the lamp will look the same as before.
Edition made in 2019 for the Light Objects Exhibiton.
3D Print, LEDs and microcontroller, 2018
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
The kinetic light object refers not only in its title to a popular theme of Victor Vasarelys Work, a flat object seeming to have depth in space due to its shading of the colours being used.
Made from 3D printed plastic, the object is lit up from the inside using RGB light diodes which are animated through an internal microprocessor. The design of the object, electronics and programming have been done by Julius Schmiedel himself, after reverse engineering the original works by Vasarely.
When plugged in, the object will randomly light up in one of 360 different colours. First seen as flat while all fields have the same luminosity, it then animates into a the state seen in the picture, where the different shades of the colour make it appear like a 3-dimensional surface. It will then cycle between the flat and the recessed state.
Currently, two remaining are available in the shop.
Edition of 3, shown at Kunstraum Anakoluth
shown 2010 at Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin
Currently, three remaining are available through the shop.
enjoy, 2010, modified neon sign
shown at Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin
(welcome to) las vegas, 2010, modified neon sign
shown at Walpoden Akademie, Mainz, and Galerie Frenhofer, Berlin