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Light sculpture is an intermedia
Intermedia

Intermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the ineffable, often confusing, inter-disciplinary activities that occur between genres that became prevalent in the 1960s....
 and time based artform in which sculpture
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
 or any kind of art object produces light
Light

Light, or visible light, is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is Visible spectrum to the human eye , or up to 380?750 nm. In the broader field of physics, light is sometimes used to refer to electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths, whether visible or not....
, or the reverse (in the sense that light is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass). Most often light sculpture artists were primarily either visual artists
Visual arts

The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
 or composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
s, not having started out directly making light sculpture.

Light sculpture is sometimes site-specific
Site-specific art

Site-specific art is work of art created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork....
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Light sculpture is an intermedia
Intermedia

Intermedia was a concept employed in the mid-sixties by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the ineffable, often confusing, inter-disciplinary activities that occur between genres that became prevalent in the 1960s....
 and time based artform in which sculpture
Sculpture

Sculpture is Three-dimensional space artwork created by shaping or combining hard and or plastic material, sound, and or text and or light, commonly Stone sculpture , metal, glass, or wood....
 or any kind of art object produces light
Light

Light, or visible light, is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is Visible spectrum to the human eye , or up to 380?750 nm. In the broader field of physics, light is sometimes used to refer to electromagnetic radiation of all wavelengths, whether visible or not....
, or the reverse (in the sense that light is manipulated in such a way as to create a sculptural as opposed to temporal form or mass). Most often light sculpture artists were primarily either visual artists
Visual arts

The visual arts are Art#Art forms that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature, such as drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking....
 or composer
Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, usually in the medium of musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of music....
s, not having started out directly making light sculpture.

Light sculpture is sometimes site-specific
Site-specific art

Site-specific art is work of art created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork....
.

Artists


Artists include:
  • Dan Flavin
    Dan Flavin

    Dan Flavin was an United States Minimalism artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially-available fluorescent light fixtures....
     who first conceived of using electric light as an art form in 1961,
  • Olafur Eliasson
    Ólafur Elíasson

    Olafur Eliasson is a Denmark-Icelandic artist, noted for his exhibition The Weather Project at the Tate Modern, London, in 2003. That same year, he also represented Denmark at the Venice Biennale....
  • James Turrell
    James Turrell

    James Turrell is an artist primarily concerned with light and space....
  • Ellis D Fogg
    Ellis D Fogg

    Ellis D Fogg is the pseudonym of Roger Foley who the National Film and Sound Archive have described as Australia's "most innovative lighting designer and lumino kinetic sculptor." The term Kinetic art was first used in 1966 by Frank Popper, Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Paris....
  • Bruce Nauman
    Bruce Nauman

    Bruce Nauman is a contemporary United States artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance....
    ,
  • Keith Sonnier
    Keith Sonnier

    Keith Sonnier is a minimalist, Performance art, video and light artist. Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s, and has been one of the most successful with this technique....
    ,
  • Chryssa
    Chryssa

    Chryssa Vardea Mavromichali is a Greek American artist who works in a wide variety of Media . An Visual arts of the United States pioneer in light art and luminist sculpture widely known for her neon sign, Stainless steel, aluminum and acrylic glass Installation art, she has always used the Mononymous persons Chryssa professionally....
    ,
  • Bill Parker


The site of the first factory of the Philips
Philips

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is a Netherlands electronics company. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands....
 corporation, in Eindhoven
Eindhoven

Eindhoven is a municipality and a city located in the province of North Brabant in the south of the Netherlands, originally at the confluence of the Dommel and Gender streams....
, The Netherlands, is now a museum devoted to light sculpture.

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