🏆🔆😊 We're proud our project Liquid Ornament received the Silberstreifen Award 2021. Check out the video! 1st prototype currently on show in an exhibition at designxport Hamburg. A collaboration between Dr. Patrick Tobias Fischer and Johann Gielen Lighting Design by Dr. Patrick Tobias Fischer and Johann Gielen Lighting Design

So nerdy. So lighting. So right in these times.

Social Distance Thing

Talk at Home²

🌳🔆🏡 A Forest Glade for Every House! -Nature as a Starting Point for High-End Lighting Design.

See my talk at Home² on Fri, 24th Jan, 12:30, Hamburg Messe. Tracing the connections between great lighting design and natural light, even when designing with latest LED and IoT tech.

Panel Discussion at Nights 2019 Conference

Join us for LIGHT+CITY PANEL at NIGHTS 2019 - NIGHTTIME CONFERENCE Berlin this Thursday 28th Nov, 4pm! Looking forward to host the discussion with Helga Kuechly, Dr. Patrick Tobias Fischer and Reclaim Club Culture on how political lighting is: NEGOTIATING CITY LIGHTING - FROM STREET LIGHTS TO URBAN INTERFACES

http://2019.stadt-nach-8.de/schedule/licht-stadt

Appearance in Documentary on Light

Check out this great documentary about light and night time! Follow us doing a mock-up at Remy de la Fosse Temple, Hannover. It's not in cinemas anymore, but today it will be on TV across Germany: 31st Oct, 20:15, NDR. Enjoy some stunning pictures of light/cities/nature!

Natural Sparkle

I just love these subtle yet spectacular reflections! It's a tree canopy beside a pond in Berlin's embassy district.

Lecture "Visualizing and Communicating Lighting Design"

Lecture on "Visualizing and Communicating Lighting Design" at HAW University Hamburg. Monday, 3rd June, 13:00 at HAW Kunst- und Mediencampus. Direct message me if you'd like to join. Looking forward to share my thoughts and exchange with the students!

Talk at The Logics of Colour - 12th Dresden Colour Forum

Looking forward to give a talk on the "right dose of sparkle" this Friday at The Logics of Colour - 12th Dresden Colour Forum. Come around if you're in the area!

https://tu-dresden.de/bu/architektur/die-fakultaet/einrichtungen/sam_farbenlehre/testseite-1

Excited to meet with the great colour theorist Harald Küppers when he hands over his collection to the museum.

Frame of Reference

Frame of Reference by Cynzia C.

posted via Twitter: Volumetric Fog Display https://t.co/io1GlDP0RC

Lucid Reflections

Specular Series @Stereolux from Cinzia C.

Halo and Mist

Halo by Kimchi and Chips

Talk at PLDC 2015

I will hold a talk at PLDC in Rome on Fri, 30/10/15.
Contrast is content - Media architectures without artificial light
 

 

Talk at Lichtcampus 2015

I will hold a talk at Lichtcampus today. It will be about the Parasite Interfaces project I did with Patrick Tobias Fischer, Prof. Eva Hornecker and their students in Media Architecture / Media Informatics at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
http://lichtcampus.net/programm/
 
 

air material light recipes

by Daniel Wurtzel

newspaper wood

by Mieke Meijer and vij5

laser activated dye

by Simon Heijdens

recombining things

by Daniel Canogar

Spectral Reflectance

Shot in a rather ugly public space in St.Pauli
By Johann Gielen

Konstellation

Pixel Sonne - Konstellation
Slightly taming sunlight.

Presented at:
http://pervasivedisplays.org/2012

By Johann Gielen
Music by Whitest Boy Alive

Digital Dry Ice

by Daniel Schulze

Make Astrophysics not War

by Mato Atom

Industrial grid

Perceive with me:
Metal plates that are built into luminaires for road lighting.

Projection Project

Beautifully combining projections and cut-outs.



by
Davy and Kristin McGuire

Charging Surfaces

Charging spaces with light and content



by
Julia Tsao

Pixelator

Reclaiming public attention!



by
Jason Eppink

One Day Poem

Making the ever changing ephemeral beauty of daylight visible






by
Jiyeon Song

Lecture on Pixel Sonne

Hello World. Please check out the following announcement! There will be a lecture held by Prof. Jens Ginzel, Tim and me on Nov. 24th in Hamburg about Pixel Sonne / Reflektordisplay:


The lecture will be held at
HAW Hamburg, Kunst- und Mediencampus Finkenau, Room 139

Prototype Pixel Sonne

Prototype -very mechanical and analog

By Johann Gielen

PIXEL SONNE

slightly taming sunlight

Johann Gielen (Lighting Designer / Urban Planner)
-Presented at Media Architecture Biennale in Vienna (Oct. 2010)

By Johann Gielen

Installations of Physical Media Architecture

Some stunningly beautiful examples of Physical Media Architecture:

Hyposurface
by David Goulthorpe




Fountain Clock
by Kanazawa Station




Dynamic facade
by Kiefer Technic




Shade Pixel
by Hyunjung Kim and Woohun Lee




Biplane
by Tim Prentice




Human Media Façade
by South Korea




SnOil
by Martin Frey




Adaptive Bloom
by Justin Goodyer

Justin Goodyer: Adaptive Bloom - Bartlett School of Architecture from Ruairi Glynn




Spiral Wall
by Archgary




Tipping Wall
by Ned Kahn




One Day Poem
by Jiyeon Song




Adaptive fa[CA]de
by Marilena Skavara

Marilena Skavara's Adaptive fa[CA]de at Digital Hinterlands exhibition, London from marilena .




Kinetic Sculpture
by Art+Com




Wooden Mirror
by Daniel Rozin




Weave Mirror
by Daniel Rozin




Shiny Balls Mirror
by Daniel Rozin




Trash Mirror
by Daniel Rozin




Mirrors Mirror
by Daniel Rozin




Aleph
by Adam Somlai-Fischer

Aleph Reorganizing Vision from Adam Somlai-Fischer.




Mirrors
by rAndom International

"Mirrors" - Kinetic Sculpture from RANDOM INTERNATIONAL

Temporary Printing Machine Limited Edition
by rAndom International

Temporary Printing Machine Limited Edition from RANDOM INTERNATIONAL

Bit Fall
by Julius Popp




Bit Code
by Julius Popp

Flare Facade
by WHITEvoid

The Fine Arts of the Streets

Graffiti in Zaragoza, Spain. Plain Beauty!

Bike Speeding -Quick and Slick

Marking lines on roads are brilliant to ride a bike on. There's less friction between the tire and the ground. This makes higher speeds possible.

On the other hand braking is much more difficult, though. Tires are more likely to slip on the slick marking lines..

By Johann Gielen

MoxoMoxo World

moxomoxo

enjoy subtleness

sightune: I did some experiments with public displays that show ads in phone booths. simply adding a layer of printed translucent paper! this diffuses the ads and provides back lighting for the new layer of static content on the paper.

By Johann Gielen

Short Bio Johann Gielen

Johann Gielen is an independent lighting designer and lecturer. He received his degree from HafenCity Universität Hamburg in Urban Planning specializing in natural light art for public spaces. He studied Architectural Lighting Design at KTH Stockholm and Lighting Technology at TU Ilmenau.

Johann Gielen has a studio for independent lighting design in Hamburg. He previously headed the lighting design at Ulrike Brandi Licht. He was lighting design lead at Sharp LED Lighting and worked for WES Landscape Architects. In his projects he collaborates with architects, designers, artists, media architects and electrical engineers. He spoke at numerous conferences and held guest lectures at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and HAW Hamburg .

Besides well-crafted lighting design he loves subtle lighting effects. All technological means capable of transforming the visual appearance of an object are appealing to him. This interest lead him to become a theorist in the field of Media Architecture writing about ways to create visual media without artificial light sources.

In interdisciplinary collaborations he explores the role and functions of future digital devices in urban environments. It is a constant search for unconventional ways of designing light to work towards truly public spaces for open societies.

johanngielen.com