Domestic Light enters a new public phase through Ian Winters’s residency at the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab, culminating in a work-in-progress installation, performance, artist talk, and Q&A during SHL Week 2026.
The residency brings the project into The Lab as a site of testing, calibration, installation development, and public exchange. Over several weeks, Winters has been working with the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab community and collaborators at the University of Sussex to prepare the first UK work-in-progress installation of Domestic Light, transforming spectral data back into light through the project’s multispectral LED modules.
A key part of this process has included colour calibration and profiling with the Sussex Colour Group, supporting the translation of the project’s spectral records into the physical behavior of the installation. This behind-the-scenes phase gives the Sussex presentation a particular importance: rather than arriving only as a finished exhibition, Domestic Light is being shared as an active research and production environment, where data, colour, light, sound, and spatial experience are still being tuned in relation to one another.
As part of SHL Week 2026, the project will be presented from 16–19 June at The Lab, with an exhibition open daily from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. The installation will feature a scale version of the work using 24 multispectral LED light/sound modules, arranged as an immersive open sphere that animates and geolocates the project’s spectral record and associated sonic traces.
The central public event will take place on Thursday, 18 June, when Winters will present a performance-installation followed by an artist talk, research presentation, and Q&A. The session will offer visitors a closer look at the current state of the work, the residency process at Sussex, and the development of Domestic Light as it moves from its primary data-gathering phase toward installation, performance, and long-term research afterlives.
The June presentation also marks a shift in scale and context for the project. What has circulated across homes, sensors, networks, and datasets is now being reassembled as a collective environment: a place where the accumulated light of domestic spaces can be encountered through physical modules, shared time, and public conversation.
Event details
Domestic Light exhibition
16–19 June 2026
10:00 AM–4:00 PM
The Lab, Silverstone Level 2
University of Sussex Falmer Campus
Performance-installation + artist talk and Q&A
Thursday, 18 June 2026
2:00–3:30 PM
Silverstone Building, Arts Road, Falmer, Brighton
Free, in-person event. Registration is required due to limited capacity.
Reserve a spot:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/domestic-light-performance-installation-followed-by-artist-talk-qa-tickets-1989292550569
Residency open days
Fridays through 12 June
1:00–4:00 PM
The Lab, Silverstone Level 2
No booking required.
The presentation is part of SHL Week 2026, the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab’s annual programme celebrating the work of its community of researchers and practitioners. The artist talk will be followed by an informal gathering in The Lab’s garden, weather permitting.
Sussex Digital Humanities Lab announcement:
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/news-and-events/news?id=70719
SHL Week 2026 programme:
https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/70814
