Domestic Light explores the tension between how natural light is generated and experienced, stored, and performed through technological systems.
Conceived in the wake of global lockdowns, the project began as a collaborative survey of ambient light — observing the spectral qualities of domestic space, and how these imperceptible shifts shape our sense of home and the passage of time.
As it reaches its final phase, Domestic Light becomes a sculptural instrument: a performance and installation built from two years of sensor recordings, designed by artist Ian Winters in collaboration with composer Pamela Z and choreographers Daiane Lopes da Silva, Mary Armentrout, and Paige Starling Sorvillo.
The project also fulfills a broader aim: to support artist-led, community-to-community infrastructures for sensing and responding to environmental change. Its structured dataset — a spectral archive of light, location, and rhythm — is now housed at the University of Sussex Humanities Lab, and available for reuse through Leonardo/ISAST.
For documentation of the 2023–2024 live data installation at the SFArtsED Gallery, visit our Archive.
News about upcoming presentations of the final work will be posted in the News section.