Daylight art and science
Light, shade, gradients of darkness and the full absence of light: their duration, contrasts and rhythmic successions, together with their effects are vital to all living beings, including humans and more than humans. The sun provides cyclic light for natural and cultural processes alike and is one of the main sources of knowledge for us living organisms and the wider ecosystems. Investing in life-long studying together and learning to see and sense light, as well as its absence, is an indispensable and integral part of creative artistic and scientific processes.
Interested in contributing to this section? Please contact us at office@daylight.academy.
4 January 2024
Practicing Daylight: a transdisciplinary, artistic research project
Practicing daylight Practicing daylight is a hands-on series of experiential workshops dedicated to a sustained dialogue between artistic and scientific ways of seeing, analyzing and sensing. It invites to a time and place of conversation, meeting and relations, without disciplinary boundaries and beyond conventional epistemic systems. Our focus on the “and” and not on the “therefore…”, with emphasis on “contact” and not “contract”, is driven by ...
15 November 2023
Measuring and mapping the daylit world
Daylight is vital for humans, as it illuminates the world and helps us navigate, read, and appreciate visual art. Light influences us profoundly beyond vision, namely by synchronizing our circadian clock and ensuring that we run on “environment time”. Specialized light-sensing receptors in the eye capture photons and turn them into signals to tell the brain whether it is day or night.
14 November 2023