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Constellations 2024

Technoluminescence
Constellations 2024

CETI Constellations: Technoluminescence

In January 2024, a group of artists, technologists, architects, musicians, hackers, and engineers gathered in the ice and snow for an exciting interdisciplinary creative weekend at the CETI Lab at PSU to bring unique light and sound pieces, immersive experiences, and performances to life.

Technoluminescence explores our deep fascination with creating and controlling light in myriad ways – making it change, move, dance, and respond to us. Recognizing perhaps that we are all made of these bits of light and these experiments are a way to look within and into each other.

CETI Constellations: Technoluminescence

Come see the resulting magical experiences of the creatathon at Lloyd Center the first weekend in February.

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Where:

Lloyd Center, former Gap

1120 Lloyd Center, Portland, OR 97232

When:

February 2–4, 2024

Feb 2, 5–7 PM

Feb 3, 1–7 PM

Feb 4, 1–6 PM

Workshops:

Make an LED Backpack with Circuit Playground Express

Sat Feb 3, 2024. 10:00am — 12:00noon

CETI Lab

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Build an Edge-Lit Pendant

Sun Feb 4, 2024. 2:00pm — 2:30pm

Lloyd Center, former Gap

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Artists and Works

The walls of a fitting room are filled floor to ceiling with fragmented mirrors. A stage light, held up by a tripod, brightens the room from the corner.

Abyssal

Emma Duehr
A video is projected onto a long wall. In the video, spherical balls of bright white, purple, and blue form patterns akin to waves of water.

Astral Tide

Amy Meyer
A projected video with abstract patterns in blue, purple, and green. The lines overlap and curve into a pointed oval. A second oval sits in the middle, like a pupil and iris of an eye.

Audioluminescence

Kirani Anderson
A hologram frame sits on a table next to a keyboard and computer. The image in the hologram frame is of a cloth doll with rainbow colored locs, a white beanie, and a brightly patterned outfit. On the computer screen is an ai chat program that allows visitors to speak to babyuniverse.

babyuniverse

Universe
Three mannequins face away from the camera. The outfits are adorned with LED lights. The jacket on the mannequin to the left has numbers formatted like a clock timer, with colons between 3 sets of two digits. The mannequin in the middle has a jacket with glowing flowers. The mannequin on the right features a jacket with a rain cloud on the back. The cloud is embroidered and the rain drops are LED lights.

Bright Wearables

Debra Ansell
A square of tiles, three rows of three, glow purple and blue. Each tile is patterned with an organic, curving web that obstructs the light.

Deep‑Sea Dazed and Diffused

Jordan Johnson‑Verburg + Drew Runner
Two easels hold fluffy, rectangular forms. Each form glows with supersaturated pink and blue. In front of the easels is a long line a plastic, cut into shapes of a variety of plants. Two half domes of glass sit in front of the plants. A third half dome is placed in front of the easels, but behind the plants.

Dew Point

Kendall Cottrell
A messy managers office is bathed in supersaturated blue light. Papers are strewn everywhere - on the desk, on the floor, and on the walls. An old computer sits in the corner with the terminal open.

Ghost Mall

Scott Nieradka
A video projected onto a wall with abstract orange and blue lines. Text in the video reads

Hacker Buddies

Mike M + Skye X
An abstract, low contrast video is projected onto a sheet on a wall. Below the video are three sculptures of crabs, each approximately 1.5 feet wide.

Inheritors of the Abyss

TJ Orloski + Helina + Briar Parks + Jordan Woodward
Multicolored, overlapping circles are projected onto a dark background.

Matrix Dot Projector

Max Ettel
A projected video shines on two rows of shirts and pants that are hung on a wall. Brightly colored, abstract shapes are projected onto the shirts and pants. In the negative space between the clothing, a second video is projected. The second video features two people in outfits indicative of the 80s. A table sits in front of the projection. On the table is a barcode scanner and a receipt printer. To the right of these, also on the table, are a grid of short receipts.

Memory Gap

Jon Daries + José Luis Olivares
An ipad sits on a music stand. a video of a violinist plays on the ipad. The figure is slightly distorted so that gold light trails behind them.

Música AR 3D

Tomás Cotik + Sam Kemp + Rebecca Ralston
Abstract, swirling colors are projected onto a wall. The silhouettes of two people can be seen in front of the projection. They are standing by a rounded box with touch sensor controls.

Nexus

Rebecca Watkins + Jonathan Snyder + Abhi Prem
A display case, split into three sections. Four mannequins stand in the case - one in each of the side sections, and two (one standing and one sitting) are in the middle section. A shiny material is placed on the ground like a runway. A rainbow colored video is projection mapped onto the display case and mannequins.

On Display

Bernardo Pantoja
Two people stand with their backs to the camera, facing a projected video on a wall. The person near the center stretches their arms out wide. The video features an organic mesh web.

Phosphene Dream

M Osborne + Brad Anderson
In the corner of the room, a projected video plays on two walls. The left wall features a large projection of abstract purple and blue organic shapes made from conglomerations of small particles. The video on the wall to the right is small. It contains the same small particles in blue and purple, but follows the outlines of a face. In front of the two projections is a desk with a computer and a camera. A person stands in front of the desk, leaning forward so that their face lines up with the camera lens.

Physarum Luminaria

Jackson Callaway
Three mannequins sit on a cashiering desk. A brightly colored, abstract video is projected on the wall behind the desk.

SKUmorphism

Justin Patrizi
A conglomeration of old technology connects to a structure made from translucent, flexible, acrylic rods. The rods glow with light from two projectors. A microphone on a stand is set up in front of the table.

Sound Fountain: Nine Days from Inspiration to Installation

Leroy Laush
In a small room bathed in blue light, a table is set with a bouquet of glowing white flowers and a conglomeration of small glass cylinders. The glass containers are filled with glowing, UV reactive chemicals and dyes.

Still Life

Nandini Ranganathan + Andrea Gorforth + Katherine Weinfurter + Leif Fairbairn
A large cylindrical structure stands in a room filled with blue light. The sculpture is formed using fabric that is inflated from the inside. The lower two thirds of the cylinder is black, scattered with stars of varying sizes. The top third is white. In the center of the top third, a video projected of a large, glowing eye.

The Void Stares Back

Genevieve Hildebrand-Chupp + Kristopher Blakeley
A video plays on a TV on a pedestal in the corner of a room. Two light boxes, each with 5 glowing, 3d printed photographs, hang on the wall to the left. A second video is projected on the the wall to the right of the pedestal.

To Glow Under Pressure

Marcel Johansen
In a dark space, two ceramic sculptures face each other: a TV and an anthropomorphic figure with a fish head and human legs. LED lights shine from the TV screen.

Untitled

Brenna Park-Egan
A mannequin in a flowy white dress faces away from the mirror of a fitting room. A sphere of mirrors acts as the mannequins face, reflecting light in all directions. The walls of the room are filled with projections of waves and sea life.

Ursula’s Dressing room: Sea yourself as part of the art

Francoise Lemieux + Adriana Ricardo
On the left, sitting on a reflective surface is a 4x4 array of vector monitors, each displaying glowing green, abstract imagery. A video of abstract blue shapes with pink lines is projected behind the monitors,

Vectors, splintered

Matthew Rempes
Two people stand behind a glass sphere on a pedestal. The sphere is filled with dry ice and is lit from below.

Winter’s Breath

Henderson Reed Hummel
A video wall is hung on a metal trellis. The video is AI driven, brightly colored (primarily pink, orange, and blue) footage of a cat.

1000 Licks

Peter Vickery

Participants

Abhijeet Prem

Adriana Ricardo

Amy Meyer

Andrea Goforth

Andy Williams

Bernardo Pantoja

Bradley Anderson

Brenna Park-Egan

Bryan Absher

Cade Moore

Daisy Notz

Daniel Young

Debra Ansell

Diego Romero

Drew Runner

Elena Wiedlin

Em Osborne

Emma Duehr

Fer Villegas

Francisco Botello

Francoise Lemieux

Genevieve Hildebrand-Chupp

Gilian Rappaport

Hannah Newman

Helina Evans

Henderson Hummel

Hilary Tsai

Jackson Callaway

Jacob Richman

Jess Burnett

Jon Daries

Jonathan Snyder

Jordan Johnson-Verburg

Jose Luis Olivares

Justin Patrizi

Karen Harper

Kat Factor

Katherine Weinfurter

Kirani Anderson

Kristopher Blakeley

Kye Grant

Leif Fairbairn

Leroy Laush

Luka Russo

Marcel Johansen

Martin Smith

Matt Sottile

Matthew Rempes

Maxwell Ettel

Michael Heavers

Michael Murdock

Milos Dugas

Nandini Ranganathan

Peter Phelps

Peter Vickery

Ran Sheng

Rebecca Ralston

Rebecca Watkins

Rich Giofu

Sadie Yudkin

Sara Artese

Savannah Stigen

Scott Nieradka

Shana Palmer

Shawn Przybilla

Skye Estes

Stephanie Montgomery

Thelonius Bartlett

Tim Standen

Tj Orloski

Tomás Cotik

Tyler Walters

Universe

Victoria Garcia

Victoria Valentine

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Constellations art/tech creatathon

Bring ideas and projects, find collaborators, join teams, and help troubleshoot, experiment, and make. This will be a weekend to learn and share interesting new tools and techniques, and find future collaborators in a celebration of joyful making with art and technology

Who:

For students, educators, professionals, and community—including artists, technologists, engineers, and innovators.

Where:

CETI Lab @ PSU

1855 SW Broadway, Room 218

(Fariborz Maseeh Hall at PSU, second Floor)

When:

Check in: Friday, January 12, 6 PM

Site visit at Lloyd Center: Friday, January 19, 5–7 PM

Creatathon Day 1: Saturday, January 20, 10 AM–8 PM

Creatathon Day 2: Sunday, Jan 21, 10 AM–2 PM