Living Light :: electroluminescent and bioluminescent installations :: Diane Willow + Experientiae Electricae :: co-presented by Year Zero One and Pixel Gallery for the Subtle Technologies Festival :: curated by Camille Turner :: Venue: Pixel Gallery :: 156 Augusta Avenue, (at Wales Avenue), Toronto, Canada :: May 29 - June 15 :: Opening Reception: May 31st, 2008.

Living Light is an exhibition of sensuously engaging electroluminescent and bioluminescent installations. Biological and technological beings of light are used as live sculptural elements and the gallery is transformed into a meditative space.

‘Light Sensitive’ by Diane Willow is a new participatory artwork that engages people in contemplation as an interactive, social experience. The focal phenomenon for contemplation in Light Sensitive is bioluminescence. Within this installation, microscopic bioluminescent algae inhabit a series of interactive, sculptural vessels that contain seawater.

Diane Willow is a multi-modal artist. Working at the intersection of art, science and technology, she experiments with hybrid media to explore the dynamics of nature, technology and community. Her public installations, interactive environments and evocative objects involve media as eclectic as bioluminescent organisms, embedded computers, found sound and time-lapsed video. She invites people to engage in multi-sensory explorations as participants and choreographers rather than as viewers. She is interested in exploring the subtle ways that we express empathy with one another, with other life forms and in relation to responsive objects, immersive environments and interactive media.

‘Pixy’ by Experientiae Electricae challenges the definition of video by transforming each pixel into an object and video into a volume, The resulting low resolution image becomes an immersive experience. Each pixel of the image is an autonomous physical element made from electroluminescent sheets that can be moved, placed on a volume and can become an object.

Experientiae Electricae is an open collaboration between artists designers and engineers, who unite to develop an independent research lab along 2 axes: co-creation, and powerful minimalist technology design, ie: experimenting with electricity.

Year Zero One is a media arts collective committed to the production, development and distribution of electronic media art through net based projects and site-specific public art exhibitions.