LIGHT ART

Light-art installations by Wilhelmusvlug

Camp-Fire – Burning Man

The more progress we make in the 21st century and the more we allow technology and algorithms to mediate human interactions, the harder it becomes to truly connect with others, weakening the social fabric of our society. While genuine connection is still possible with friends and family, it is increasingly difficult to establish meaningful relationships...
on 2025-02-04

Camp-Fire – Napa Lighted Art Festival

The more progress we make in the 21st century and the more we allow technology and algorithms to mediate human interactions, the harder it becomes to truly connect with others, weakening the social fabric of our society. While genuine connection is still possible with friends and family, it is increasingly difficult to establish meaningful relationships...
on 2025-02-04

All my Colours – Le Guess Who?

We all think that what we see is reality, but most people don’t realize that everything we can see and the way we experience these things are limited by our senses and our culture that learns us how to interpret what we see. Everybody thinks they know what a rainbow looks like, but except for...
on 2025-02-04

Prepping for Burning Man

Prepping Camp-Fire for Burning Man, one of the video's for our fundraiser campaign to raise funds to be able to build a new version of Camp-Fire at Burning Man in the Black Rock Desert.
on 2025-02-03

Petals

Small installation with two slowly color changing floating petals.
on 2025-01-25

In Bloom – Amsterdam Light Festival

Blossoms are the first sign of the awakening of nature after a long hibernation and the start of a new cycle of life. Because of this blossoms and flowers are symbol of rebirth, beauty, love and death. Blossoms also transform into fruits and as so are a symbol for fertility and transformation. No wonder that...
on 2025-01-25

De Hand van Van Gogh – Schoenmakerspark, Etten-Leur

(van Gogh's Hand) During the period when Van Gogh lived in Etten and first emerged as an artist, he captured the surrounding landscape in a series of drawings, with pollarded willows and their distinctive bark textures playing a prominent role. He would later develop these irregular, striped bark patterns into his iconic painting style. Inspired...
on 2025-01-25

The Black Rock Hourglass

The sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but only in some places at specific times the sun will set and rise exact opposite of each other. The Black Rock Hourglass captures such a moment in space and time during the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock City, Nevada. Two big circles...
on 2023-06-19

The Crystalline Wall

Design of an interactive light art installation with iridescent glass for a residential space, commissioned by D'Trove Studio, India.
on 2023-06-13

Icebreaker – teaser clip

A short teaser animation for my interactive light art installation at the Disrupt edition of the Amsterdam Light Festival #8. The 50 meter long installation is made just below the water surface of the Plantage Muidergracht. Icebreaker can be seen from 28 nov 2019 till 19 jan 2020 during the Amsterdam Light Festival in the...
on 2023-04-21

Hourglass II

“Hourglass is an installation that measures time by visualizing the passing of time itself.” While the first version of Hourglass captured the elegant changing of the seasons in a one minute time lapse, this new version in the van Overloop park in Amsterdam is all about the changing of light and shadows during 24 hours....
on 2023-04-18

All My Colours – I Light U

We all think that what we see is reality, but most people don’t realize that everything we can see and the way we experience these things are limited by our senses and our culture that learns us how to interpret what we see. Everybody thinks they know what a rainbow looks like, but except for...
on 2022-01-27

LXRY Tree

Concept design for light art trees. The space inside the trees can also be used as a display and can be lit from the mannequins on top of the trees.

on 2021-02-06

Bubble Bridge

Concept design of a light art bridge at a golf resort in India for D'Trove.
on 2021-01-30

Of Human Origin

Of Human Origin is an installation about the imprint we make as human beings. If the remains of human society are found by other intelligent beings long after we are gone, what will they see, will they see Shakespeare, will they see van Gogh or will they just wonder over a plastic flamingo that was...
on 2020-04-29

Icebreaker

Not so long ago the coming of winter also meant the promise of ice and the possibility of ice skating. Because of Global Warming ice in the wintertime is not as common as it used to be. Icebreaker reminds you of how the canals used to be frozen stiff and the spectacle of boats forcing...
on 2020-02-28

Zen Garden

The Zen Garden video installation at Manifesto, Paradiso Amsterdam.

on 2020-02-27

Huisje, Boompje, Beestje..

A seat in front of your own house can be seen as the ultimate place to safely observe the world around you. For this reason I choose the shape of a house as central feature for this public resting place. At daytime sunlight plays with the lace structure of the house and several figurative elements...
on 2020-02-27

Two Imaginary Boys

Multimedia installation – Station Lelylaan, Amsterdam   The dark public space right under the train and metro tracks of Lelylaan station is a classic example of a public space which isn’t designed but is a left over space of a combination of other designs from an era when space wasn’t scarce in Amsterdam. Eventually the…

on 2020-02-26

The Zen Machine

    The Zen Machine is a modern version of the early 19th century invention Deadaleum or wheel of the devil, later renamed Zoetrope, wheel of life. Traveling on this magical wheel of life, juggling mind and heart, one experiences that movement and time are just beautiful optical illusions. A hypnotic flickering light draws people to a large...
on 2018-07-10