Blog 09

This week’s blog, I studied the works of Laura Ramirez, aka Optika VJ. Her work explores a lot of the performative and aesthetic sides of live events like music concerts and festivals with more than 90,000 attending. She is very much about experimenting with projections and lighting effects in connection to spaces, public and private. What really interested me was her ability to create such a direct connection between computation and architecture, in a way that transforms facades and elevates ordinary spaces after dark. Moreover, her work engages the visuals on a level that becomes very “trippy” and creates a sense of elevation through a use of rhythmic patterns that I assume is combined with generative softwares that combines and creates intricate and eye-catching patterns. A great example of this is her project “EQUILIBRIUM” that was produced under one of her many labs that she has created under her brand, Optikal Ink Lab. Link to her website: http://optikalink.weebly.com/about.html