Event 3: Color, Light, Motion: Claudia Schnugg

For Event #3, I virtually attended Claudia Schnugg’s Color, Light, Motion presentation. Color, Light, Motion is described

as an “online series featuring artists and scholars in dialogue about artworks from the Bermant Collection of

media and kinetic arts. I have previously seen Claudia Schnugg and her work in the Cosmological Events panel and

enjoyed learning about her work and the perspective she brings to artscience culture. I found the contents of Color,

Light, Motion, to be more broad in concept than the Cosmological Events series, but very fascinating nonetheless. 

One of the artworks that I found most interesting was a light exhibit that tracks

space satellite orbits around earth and projects a light for each one, accounting

speed and velocity. This is a twenty minute experience and by the end there is an entire light spectacle, which is beautiful to see.

This really reminded me of the content of week 9 space and art, and I thought it was a very beautiful and creative way to

intersect the two topics.

Another exhibition that I remember from this event is a piece that has a giant array of lit cubes, with each cube representing

a certain number of species. When each cube goes out, it represents species extinction.

One by one these cubes go out as eventually the entire display turns completely black. I found this piece very moving as species

extinction is a real world problem that can honestly be prevented to an extent, and seeing this problem represented visually was

very effective.

Image Citations

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, https://halsey.cofc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/img_20200723_152343-scaled-e1595884189385.jpg. Accessed 5 June 2023.

The One Brief , https://theonebrief.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-10.48.37-AM.png. Accessed 5 June 2023.

Schnugg, Claudia. Claudia Schnugg, https://www.claudiaschnugg.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/epfl-cosmos-image-web-2300x700-2.png. Accessed 5 June 2023.