Seduced by Light

I’m biding my time before looking through Dazed & Confused magazine’s Dazed Digital site because it holds so much content (a good thing), the highlights of which include interviews with Bjork and designer Bernhard Willhelm, and an up-close and personal tour with Wu Tang Clan as they globe trot from London to Denver. If you’re feeling similarly overwhelmed, hit up the “Seduced By Light” series first for some excellent short documentaries featuring three artists/groups that use light as integral parts of their work. One of the groups represented is United Visual Artists (the people behind the dynamic live visuals for Massive Attack’s tour), who discuss their technique for developing warping holograms above dancers in a show, and how they rigged the lighting work for Battles’ “Tonto” video. In other films, artist Jason Bruges takes viewers into the studio to show “interactive light environments,” and David Batchelor talks about his interpretations of light in art. I’m not sure how long these films will be up, so catch them before they’re replaced with new content.