{"id":878,"date":"2022-09-06T15:16:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T15:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp_dev\/?p=878"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:23:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T15:23:47","slug":"light-and-interactivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/light-and-interactivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Light and Interactivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Light-and-Interactivity-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Light-and-Interactivity-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Light-and-Interactivity-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Light-and-Interactivity-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Light-and-Interactivity-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/itp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Light-and-Interactivity.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Igoe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We use light in all aspects of our lives, yet we seldom notice it. That is by design: lighting in everyday life, well-designed, doesn\u2019t call attention to itself. Instead it places focus on the subjects and activities which it supports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Solid state lighting technologies and network technologies have made major changes in lighting design. They support a wide range of color rendering and control than earlier lighting technologies, an ability to change light over a wider range of time, and they can communicate with all kinds of digital systems and devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the design side, this class takes a &#8220;post-pixelist&#8221; approach: rather than making images with light, we&#8217;ll use it to illuminate people and the spaces and activities in which they engage. We won&#8217;t focus on pixels or projections, but rather on casting light on the subject at hand. We&#8217;ll consider the intersection of lighting design and interaction design. We&#8217;ll analyze lighting and describe its effects, in order to design and use it more effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the technical side, you&#8217;ll learn the basics of the physics of light, its transmission and perception. We&#8217;ll talk about how the materials which we cast light on or through affect how we perceive it. We\u2019ll talk about sources of light, both current and historical. We&#8217;ll work with computerized control systems for lighting, and we\u2019ll design a few lighting fixtures for different purposes. You\u2019ll get practice planning and building electronic and microcontroller-driven circuits for lighting, and you&#8217;ll learn digital communications protocols such as DMX-512, ACN, and HTTP\/REST.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assignments will cover lighting observation and description; sensing and measurement of light; design of new lighting fixtures; and control of existing fixtures and lighting systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This class will be production-intensive throughout the course of the spring semester. Second-year students should consider that the assignments in this class must be done in addition to their thesis work, regardless of the topic of their thesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We use light in all aspects of our lives, yet we seldom notice it. That is by design: lighting in everyday life, well-designed, doesn\u2019t call attention to itself. 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