The San Francisco Arts Education Project (SFArtsED) is pleased to announce the launch of Domestic Light, a project by artist Ian Winters running from June 21, 2023 - June 21, 2024 in the SFArtsED gallery at Minnesota Street Project. Viewing hours are Wednesdays through Saturdays, 11:00 am–4:00 pm in the gallery space at 1275 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, CA.

Domestic Light is a multi-year project consisting of a participatory network of multi-spectral color sensors, hosted in household window sills in a maximum number of time zones around the world. Recording the shifting character of domestic light worldwide, the live data time lapse these sensors generate will be used to create a real time color portrait of “home”– both domestic and planetary– over the 2023–2024 solar year. Beginning on the 2023 solstice, video displays will be presented in the gallery and on the Domestic Light website. In 2024, the project will culminate in an immersive installation, a live audio/visual performance by Winters and Pamela Z using sound contributed by sensor hosts, and a special section in Leonardo Journal. A structured data set will be archived at the University of Sussex Humanities Lab.

Domestic Light aims to better understand the disparity between how natural light is perceived and mediated, and explores the nature and character of its networked relations. The project offers a new way of noticing how our bodies build the notion of home and the passage of time, based on the qualities of light where we live, and how mediated images of nature are sensitizing us as a species. Its data set will be available for public use and interpretation.

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