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Filipa Valente
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I chose to research the works of artist Filipa Valente for this Looking Outwards blog. What most caught my eye when I was perusing the list of women artists, was that Filipa’s works were that of architectural lighting. For me personally, I am currently an architecture student but I am also very interested in the aspects of lighting design and how they can be implemented into the user’s experience and such.
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Her work, Filtered Transparencies, is an interactive art installation that uses layered light, space and sound to create an immersive experience. The installation uses projected imagery and a maze of transparent screens to blur physical spatial boundaries and transports its users into an augmented hologram-like environment.
The installation’s structure is designed to become ‘invisible’ and traversable – an architectural void into which the illusion of mass and dimensionality emerge. Users can interact with the space as well by altering the projected content, and switching environments.