Paul Friedlander

Digital and Physical LightingSusana del Rio Kuroiwa

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About himBorn in England. Son of Gerard Friedlander, a Cambridge mathematician and fellow of the Royal Society. His mother, Yolande Friedlander, was an artist*. He studied physics and mathematics at Sussex. Other interest: cosmology.He visit the show 'Kinetics' at the Hayward Gallery (1970) in London. He encountered Nicholas Schoffer's work, a French cybernetic artist. He wanted to create kinetic art too.He studied Fine Arts at Exeter Art College.In London, he sold his inventions for commercial purposes.He did stage lighting* until 1987.Leading designer of lighting for music.

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Kinetic art

The beginnings: In 1990, he gathered small sculptures. The topic: chaos. Invited to MIT Institute of Advanced Visual Studies. Kinetic art: Physics + lightReferences: mathematics concepts, biology, art, circus skills, visual music.New media and techniques.

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Manchester, Barcelona, Madrid, France, Amsterdam, Gran Canary, London, Milan, Valencia, Singapore, Thessaloniki.

Discoveries - inventions

Enigma of Light: transformation of chromatic light when passing through a transparent media (acrylics). Ref. Einstein and relativity.Spinors. Three-dimensional moving light projections Chromastrobic light + forms + rotation.Chromastrobic light: “light that changes colour faster than the eye can see” (PF). It appears white.Wave Function* (quantum mechanics)Abstract Cosmology

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Searching the Real Light Sculpture

Wave Factory: his aim is to create 3D light projections.Holograms and stereo projections do not occupy a real space.First, he projected light to spinning objects.A skipping rope forms a bubble around the skipper. Instead, electricity drives the rope. The result is a variety of wave patterns.When chromastrobic light shines over moving objects (rope), we can see a “multicolor light sculpture”.

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Visual MusicSpinning String Light Sculptures: “in my work with spinning string, I discovered forms that echoed the behaviour of musical harmony”. Makes light response to sound.Qualities of movement, changes of color and form.

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Art Rock 2003 (France 2003). He used the Voice (software created by Peter Meijer, to blind people).The Voice converted images to sounds

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Performances

Resonant Wave Festival (Berlin 2002): Atsushi Takenouchi danced under the Manifold Wave sculpture.Magic Light “is a human powered light sculpture”. Paul’s chromastrobic light and Jack's circus skills = light floating in the air and electronic music.

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Computer Art

He invented his own software: Zip Art10 color palettes, a color editor, backgrounds and pens, drawing tools and special effects such as animation. Forms based on mathematical algorithms, but its intuitive.The user controls the size, shape & position of patterns to create new forms.

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“At 56, (…) he has something of an air of Gyro Gearloose, Albert Einsteinand Steven Spielberg rolled into one. His suspended, spinning sculptures,

upon which are projected subtle and scholarly combinations of abstract images (words, figures, mathematical symbols...), present themselves,

when at rest, as giant, white plastic mobiles. Lit and moving, they become mesmerizing swirls of light which seem to reveal new spatial dimensions...”

Télérama Sortir # 3037, 03.26 – 04.01.2008

Friedlander reconoce “que sus compañeros de escuela ya le llamaban raro (…) Pero Paul Friedlander sigue dando pasos en la construcción de su planeta imaginario. (…) Esta pasión por las ondas, por la convivencia entre caos y

armonía, por la energía en bruto pero también por la información van construyendo el mundo de Paul Friedlander.”

09.23.2003 El Periódico de Gijón, p. 12http://www.paulfriedlander.com/text/papers.html

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Critics

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He dedicates Art Futura 2002 (Barcelona Festival and Conference) to his father. Valencia 2006 and the installation Timeless Universe Cosmology, ancient myths, mathematics and physics. The result: “ancient scripts to signs, codes and mathematical formula.”“The result is an endless kinetic stream of images which never exactly repeats itself”. http://www.paulfriedlander.com/text/sala2006.htm

October Galley (London 2004) mirrors, blue walls.

His inspirations

“I named the work Chromatoforms, word play on the term chromatophore, an organ possesed by cephelapods: squid, octopus and cuttlefish. This enables them to change colour at will, not only as a camouflage but as a means of communication.”

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Some videos

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