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Cinimod Studio Ltd launches
It is with some sadness, and great excitement and anticipation, that I have left Jason Bruges Studio in order to move on to an exciting new venture: running my own design firm, Cinimod Studio Ltd.
Cinimod Studio is a London-based design practice specializing in interactive lighting design and integrated artworks. The studio will be built on my experiences as a practicing architect, interactive artist, lighting designer and project manager.Â
Further information and examples of work will be posted on the website in the next couple weeks. In the meantime, if you have any projects you would like to discuss with me, please contact me on : dominic [at] cinimod studio . com
the 3D Chandelier (aka Pixel Cloud)
Permanent Interactive Lighting Installation, London. 2007.
My final major project whilst working at Jason Bruges Studio was an interactive 8-storey high chandelier suspended within the atrium of international law firm Allen and Overy. The chandelier is comprised of a three dimensional matrix of globes that are set out in direct relation to the architectural grid of this Norman Foster building.
The globes are of a bespoke and unique design that allows for a ground breaking brightness, controllability and visual aesthetic. A custom software control system take data from multiple data feeds, including a sky-watching camera at the top of the atrium space. This data is used in real-time to create a perpetually evolving colour space that provides a compelling centre-piece to the client’s new office building.
For more information please contact www.jasonbruges.com
LED research visit to China
Huizhou City, Guangdong, China. April 2007.
As a part of my on-going brief to say abreast of the latest technologies which IÂ use in my work, I recently made a visit to the LED production facilities of Cotco in China.
Whilst inspecting the clean room facilities photography was not permitted. I was however able to witness several scales of production, including the manufacture of the SMD LED’s and their visual/technical testing, and assembly of complete products including fixtures by Traxon Technologies (high quality architectural LED lighting fixtures) and Lighthouse Technologies (whose impressive daylight-readable video screens are shown above).
55 Baker Street Art Facade
Interactive Art Lighting Installation, London. 2007.
This collaboration with Jason Bruges Studio and make architects for their new project on Baker Street serves as an example of how art and lighting can be combined with architecture from the on-set of a project. Make have created a series of ‘masks’ comprised of structural steel lattice from which hang the diamond-shaped glazing modules.Â
This ‘mask’ will have a large array of bespoke narrow-beam RGB led fixtures focussed on it, creating a remotely addressable low-resolution art screen.Â
The projected light on the facade will be continously updated to reflect a changing landscape of moods and patterns.
The project is currently on site, and our lighting scheme will be commissioned late-2007. For more information please contact www.jasonbruges.com
Tower Bridge Switched-On
Pool of London, Switched On London Festival, February 2007.
Jason Bruges Studio has realized a temporary public interactive installation as a part of the Switched On London lighting festival.
I’ve posted a video of the installation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnq1TBefX7Q
Two Bluetooth data loggers track the movement of people across London Bridge. Each person/device gets assigned a ‘pixel’ on the lighting installation along Tower Bridge (the neighboring bridge). This pixel then moves at a related speed, creating a real-time data visualization.
It is interesting to see the correlation between various groups of pixels — for example, a bus full of people with their phones turned on will result in a very big flash of synchronized movement in the lighting display.
Special thanks to Traxon Technologies for the loan of the lighting equipment.
See www.jasonbruges.com and www.whitewing.co.uk/switchedon.html for more information.
Guerrilla Lighting
Temporary guerrilla lighting installations in London.  15 February 2007.
I took part in a brilliant lighting event in which 100 people came together to prove that it would not be too difficult to drastically improve on what I would consider to be generally very poor lighting along the Thames.Â
A series of 6 installation sites were picked, and with just 15 minutes at each site we implemented our schemes using portable lights. Although our work was somewhat puzzling to the tourists, and infuriating to the security patrols, the end results were pretty good. I’ve posted a YouTube video of one of the pieces at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-FQ2XJC0kg
We were armed with 5 million candlepower coast guard torches, Philips battery-powered LEDlines, and Osram Dot-It white LED lamps. Â
More information and photographers from the guerrilla masterminds at www.guerrillalighting.net
The October Table
An interactive coffee table created in October.Â
Initially created as a wedding gift to my wife, the October Table has become an ongoing design project that has evolved from being a prototype object to being an exciting piece of furniture design with a special digital twist that would suit many a diverse environment.
Using a combination of specifically chosen glass types, a virtually boundless sense of space is created within the physical confine of the white glass box. A three-dimensional matrix of individually controlled globes of light extends in each direction, controlled interactively by the movement of people and objects around the table.
The table is manufactured from the highest quality materials, and is scalable by design to any required size. An embedded solid-state bespoke control system provide a reliable and maintainace free realtime interactive and responsive control. The table can also operate in a ‘generative art’ mode where it uses algorithms to create a intriguing and perpetually shifting pattern of colours.
Wedding Lanterns
LED table lantern centerpieces for a (my) wedding.  October 2006.
100 miniature paper lanterns formed a gently animated canopy of glowing light across the venue, meeting the brief to create an alternative to the traditional candelabra (health and safety often dictates that no live flames can be used in public areas).
Through their design these chandeliers are quickly and easily assembled on-site. A disc base support 7 globes per table, each individually powered by bespoke LED modules. Neodymium magnets keep the lanterns and their battery packs securely positioned along the steel piano wire arms. Further magnets bonded to test tubes allow for an elegant yet free form flower arrangement at the base.Â
Following repeat enquiries since the first deployment of these chandeliers I have decided to make them available on both a hire and purchase basis.   Please email me for information:   hello [ a t ] dominicharris.com
Sparky Tate
Tate Britain.  London.  October 2006.
Commissioned by the Tate for a children’s day based onthe theme of ’sparks’, we developed a concept that saught to capture and freeze the 3D patterns of sparks that one might witness coming from a crackling fire or a field of fireflies.
 
A temporary three dimensional volumetric installation was constructed using 1000 metallic helium balloons each carrying a red/blue LED sparkler. The height and location of each balloon was fixed by rubber weights on the ground.Â
For more information see www.jasonbruges.com