Miwa Matreyek's glorious visions

Video sourced from http://www.ted.com/talks/miwa_matreyek_s_glorious_visions.html


I found this video whilst searching on TED and I thought I would upload and share it as I found it really inspirational to watch. The performance is by Miwa Matreyek a performance and animation artist from Los Angeles California.

I am studying lighting at the moment within the context of landscape architecture for my dissertation, and am therefore very interested in the applications that lighting can be applied to. I felt the performance showed the adaptability of lighting projectors for performance and its ability to change perception of a space, person or object. Watching Miwa Matreyek performances makes me wonder how landscape could be very different if lighting was used more elaborately for changing the realization of a space and the factors surrounding it, such as a wall within or enclosing a space. Or the paving on which we walk on. The space could almost become a digital facade hiding and manipulating what is truly there.


Miwa Matreyek website with more performances http://www.semihemisphere.com/performance.html