ARCH 1201 - Inspirational Artists and Designers

These are some of the inspirational artists that influenced my design.

UVA is an artist group that specialises around lighting. The particular work that really influenced me was their work with the growing portale which was displayed in London. The portale which is actually a LED panel interacts with the people around it through sensors. I almost fits into the idea of my opening with the delusion room which revolves around the narrators desires.

Mary Miss is a sculpturer which designed spaces which are invisible to naked until you are right on top of beside it. I was influenced by the idea of delusional space appearing in front of narrator. It is like the space under the grass area where the person will feel like they are walking over a normal grass field until the come across the pit where they find out they were actually walking over a space which was embedded in ground therefore without realising walking over a "non existent" space.

Robert Morris plays around with light and mass. The concrete sculpture was there to show his idea of floating mass. The idea is quite similar to Mary Miss's pit where a person is tricked into believing that the mass they are walking on is connected to the ground however without noticing untill walking over it that it is actually a floating mass. The mirror cubes also convey the idea of delusion through its reflection of light. Being a cube made from mirrors it almost seems that the cube contains no properties as it is reflecting all light which makes contact with it. Therefore it could be said that the interior of the cube is a delusional space for no one knows what is actually within the cube because of the distraction of the exterior mirror and the mirror preventing penetration of any kind through the cube.

Robert Smithson also works with mirrors however his work doesnt resemble the mirror cubes with clean and faultless reflections. His work is of shattered and confusing reflections giving delusion in the sense that one cant see oneself from the mirrors and creates a false understanding of the actual appearance.

Duncan Chang