Light Display: Color

Light Display: Color is the culmination of several years of development of analogue and digital images derived from original 16mm footage shot of the first working reconstruction of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s pioneering kinetic sculpture Light Display Machine, or Lichtequilst, first shown at the International Building Exhibition in Paris in 1930. Moholy had designed the sculpture, both to exist on it own, and to be the subject of a projected six-part film called Light Display: Black-White-Gray, of which only the sixth section featuring the Light Display Machine was finished. I call Light Display: Color a visual fantasy of what Moholy might have realized in the new age of technology featuring video and digital imagery.