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The Evolution and Future of Public Lighting
Three centuries ago, Peter the Great had decreed that St. Petersburg’s streets were to be lit with oil lanterns. Thus, the country’s new capital became the first Russian city to have public lighting. Today, St. Petersburg remains one of the country’s best examples of urban light environment. But each year, new approaches to lighting design, architecture and smart-city engineering appear all over the world. This field itself is becoming a platform not only for lighting designers, architects and artists, but for scientists, researchers and IT specialists as well. Participants of the roundtable discussion “Light in the City: design or programming. New technological developments and tools for modern urban analysis” discussed the future, why modern cities require more than a safe light environment, and how to use new technologies to change the approach to street lighting.
22.09.2017
ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design Enters PLDC's Top-5 Best Universities
ITMO’s Higher School of Lighting Design entered the top-5 universities according to PLDC (Professional Lighting Design Convention) and was nominated for the prestigious PLDR award. Among the short-runners are universities and professionals from the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland and Great Britain. The winner will be announced this November during the PLDC conference in Paris. Read more about the convention and reasons behind the School’s success in an article by ITMO.NEWS.
28.08.2017
Programming the Future: ITMO University’s 2016 Annual Report
For ITMO University, 2016 has been a year of international recognition, opening of new laboratories, rapid increase in publications in prestigious magazines and conducting large-scale science festivals in the very heart of St. Petersburg. Read more about the key events in the university's life in the 2016’s annual report.
25.07.2017
Technology as Digital Mirrors
The media art festival MediaIN took place on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky theater from 14th to 16th of July. Visitors had the chance to admire different interactive light and sound installations and video art. ITMO.NEWS managed to get an interview with Taras Mashtalir, a media artist, composer and producer whose works were displayed during the three days of the festival. He was behind the project SONICOLOGY and created some of his works in collaboration with The Higher School of Lighting Design at ITMO University. Mashtalir also worked as a lecturer at ITMO during the last academic semester.
19.07.2017
EVA Saint-Petersburg: New Applications Of VR/AR Technologies
Last week, ITMO University hosted the annual EVA SAINT PETERSBURG Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts international conference organized by ITMO's Design and Multimedia Center and the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics. The event itself was a discussion platform for both technical and non-technical scientists where they discussed different cases of combining culture and technology. One of the major topics was the use of VR and AR technologies for promotion of culture and arts.
29.06.2017
Art&Science: Optical Devices In Fine Arts And Design's Role In Evolution
Last Saturday, the final "Art&Science: Art, Science, Museum" open lecture took place at the General Staff Building of the State Hermitage Museum. The project, supervised by ITMO University and staff from the State Hermitage Museum, has been around for nine months; during each of its events, leading international experts presented research in the field of art and science. This time, the speakers were Charles M. Falco from the University of Arizona and Paola Antonelli, Director of R&D at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City. They've talked about nontrivial collaborations of art and science that came to be a long time ago and continue to develop ever since
21.06.2017
Art&Science: How Big Data Becomes Art
Can data be a source of inspiration, and can information become art? We are surrounded by data, but we rarely think about seeing it as artistic material. Last Sunday, Dmitry Muromtsev, head of ITMO's Information Science and Semantic Technologies International Laboratory and Julia Freeman, artist and Associate Professor at the Open Data Institute in London shared about using Big Data in digital art as part of the Art&Science: Science.Art.Museum project.
24.05.2017
The Power of Light: How Lighting Design Affects Our Lives
We perceive light similar to how we perceive air or water - we totally need it, and it's all around us: building illumination, light installations and performances have become part of our lives, and light is widely used as a source of new impressions, yet do we really think about or even notice the manipulations that it is used for? Do we understand the social, cultural and philosophical context oflighting design? Natalya Bystryantseva and Elena Lekus from the The Higher School of Lighting Design shared about this art during an open lecture at the New Scene of the Alexandrinsky Theatre.
22.05.2017
Art&Science Expert: "Aesthetic Sensibility Depends on Physiological Stimuli"
When talking about art, we focus on its aesthetic value and only question ourselves about how art affects our feelings, psyche, and sense. Yet, the process of contemplating art is much more complex. Ms. Zoï Kapoula, Research Director in the field of cognitive neurosciences, CNRS (National Center of Scientific Research in France) believes that we first react to art physiologically and only then form an emotional response. During an interview prior to a lecture for the Art&Science: Art, Science, Museum project at the State Hermitage, she shared about why it is important to study art from the scientific point of view, why is it that our aesthetic sensibility grows stronger when in museums, and why appreciating art is good for you even if you don't know much about it.
18.04.2017
Fourth Session of Hermitage’s Art&Science Project: Laser Technologies and Interactive Art Installations
The "Art&Science: Art, Science, Museum" project took place in the Hermitage on February 18th. The headliners of this session were physicist Paraskevi Pouli from Greece and American artist Ken Renaldo.
20.02.2017