Dear All,

we are pleased to take the occasion os such a great day to unveil the follow-up of our Mood Chair project.

Aether & Hemera have joined forces with Peugeot to push the boundaries of reactive emotional environments. For more information have a look directly at Peugeot's official Announcement: the first car to change colour with your emotions.

Aether & Hemera have been selected to participate in Durham Brass:2012 Festival. Which is your brass voice?  Interactive light and sound installation, was chosen from a highly competitive listings of more than 40 artists for the festival which will focus attention on the creative exploration of Brass culture and music in Durham.

At Aether & Hemera we take pride in engaging with communities that host our artworks.

With this post we are announcing the foundation of an even more open approach to sharing our development with the wider world. 

We've set up an account on GitHub where we will be publishing software and hardware details of general purpose components that everybody could use for their projects.

We have been invited and shortlisted to develop a preliminary proposal for a special lighting installation in Combe Down Tunnel, as part of Sustrans' Two Tunnels Greenway - A walking and cycling path between Bath and Midford.

Here our response for creating an immersive and interactive environment, using LEDs lights to evoke an atmospheric sensation.

We developed this proposal after being shortlisted for designing an installation for pedestrian area outside of Bert William Leisure Centre.

Using a custom designed control system, motion sensors and LED lights, we will detect peoples movements and will translate it in changing colour sequences and patterns, encouraging close encounters. Peoples movement influences the art as the art simultaneously encourages and inspires them to move.

Our lighting clock installation received Blogosphere attention:

• http://content.yudu.com/Library/A1u8i3/mondoarcOctNov2011Is/resources/24.htm
• http://www.illuminotecnica.com/articolo/9007/Lighting-Led-clock-by-Aether-Hemera-Studio
• http://www.dexigner.com/news/23920
• http://leds-news.blogspot.com/2011/09/lighting-clock.html
• http://stageoflighting.com/stage-lighting/lighting-clock-at-harbottle-park-newcastle-upon-tyne/

A giant sphere made up of glowing globes located in the performance space at Holey Rock Corner for Roker by Night event in Sunderland. 24 - 26 March, 6.30pm - 8.30pm. 'My Place in the World' enthuses viewers to think about progress, transformation of places and local identity versus international perspective.

"The Colour of Phi", a specially commissioned artwork using electro-luminescent wire by the artists Aether and Hemera will be on show at the DLI/Durham Art Gallery until 2 May 2011.

The work dissects 2 of the galleries with a series of 2 and 3-dimensional golden rectangles. The light chromatic spectrum used will be created with glass prisms. "Phi" is the Greek letter that is also used as the shorthand for the mathematical formula that defines the golden rectangle, which has been used by musicians, architects and artists, including Leonardo da Vinci, since at least the 16^th century, although Phidias' sculptures on the Acropolis appear to use the rule.

Aether and Hemera are two Italian artistss based in Gateshead. They are named after the Greek god and goddess of bright upper air and daylight. They studied at the Politechno di Milano. They have been based in the North East for the last three years. They have exhibited as part of Odin's Glow in 2009, at the Newcastle-Gateshead "Enchanted Parks" projects in 2008 and 2009 and will be showing in "Roker by Night" from 24-26 March.

"The Colour of Phi" is supported by arts Council of England North East and is showing alongside an exhibition marking the 10^thanniversary of the death of artist/curator Nerys Johnson at the DLI Museum/Durham Art Gallery from 19 March until 2 May. Alan Sykes

3 February 1879: the Sunderland-born Joseph Swan invented the first practical light bulb, whose developments would result in the widespread use of electric light throughout the world. it's going to be 133 years in a few days.

Newcastle was one of the first towns to be lit with electricity, Cragside in Northumberland one of the first houses to be lit and a light bulb factory at Benwell was the first in the world; there a post on the BBC about it.

UPDATE 28 March 2012 - Better opened to the world.

We've recently redesigned the site and removed the download from the old url. The latest version will soon be posted to GitHub.

UPDATE 15 Jan 2011 - Version 2 is available.

we've been working to extend a DHCP/Web server that Folderol has made available at this link.

The Shed at The Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead. This week we piloted a project which takes the physical shed out of The Shed and into other cultural venues. The pilot ran at the recent Shipley Lates at Shipley Art Gallery in November, with the view to extend this to other cultural spaces in 2011.

After several months of research we installed our interactive video this Friday as part of the Design Event and the Shed Open Studio, here some pics of the event 

This week we exhibited the Mood Chair and the Heart-Bit lamp at 100% Design on the Design Event Stand in the 100% Futures section, from 23-26 September on Stand G100 at Earls Court. We exhibited along with other North East Designers, for instance behind our chair you can see the beautiful wallpaper of Kate Usher

23 October, 2.00pm - 5.00pm
The Shed, 348-354 High Street, Gateshead

22-31 October - The Shed, 348-354 High Street, Gateshead;
Opening: 22 October, 6pm – 10pm

Aether & Hemera's projection visualizes and reflects the growing state of the social relations and conversations in the Shed space. Each conversation is represented by a shrub, growing in real-time while individuals chat with one another; these will change in a shape, size and hue depending on the duration and volume of the conversation as perceived by different sensors and microphone.

By the end of the exhibition the whole series of conversations will have generated an intricate and colourful forest still evolving as new spectators and guests interact in front of it. Not only will the Growing Forest be developed by dialogues, but by displaying a representation of conversations to the audience, will provide new items to discuss, resulting in a convoluted self-generating loop. The Growing Forest represents a narrative visualization of all discussions’ history.

Please visit the Save the Arts website and to sign the online petition: www.savethearts.org.uk

The red art tricycle is in Blyth Sports Centre in Bolam Park until the 4^th of July
Read more on it on Sustrans' website at http://www.sustrans.org.uk/about-sustrans/media/news-releases/C2-Artists-ask-public-to-contribute-to-artworks-in-North-East

Enter a magical world of storytelling and discover work inspired by childhood memories, fictional stories and fairy tales.Through paintings, drawings, sculptures and collage, the gallery space will be transformed into an enchanted, playful and mysterious land:  http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk/wolves/exhibitions/004243.html

Dave Stephens Centre in Blyth is hosting the Red Tricycle untill the 20th of June. Please post your feedback cards in the Tricycle's mail box!

Please find the routes where you can find the feedback postcards in the rest of the entry.

Claudio and I run a free workshop during The Late Show: the workshop was a successful introduction of Arduino foundation for kids and adults where participants have learnt to create their artworks with Arduino from scratch as well as having an excellent introduction to new media art.

The next step in our creative journey as lighting artists is the use of new technology to develop interactive digital artwork and last week we've begun a new exciting project involving the use of digital technologies in the production of a new artwork scheduled for this autumn, thanks to an Arts Council Grant for the Arts.

This project is an opportunity to challenge our awareness: we are deeply interested in Sustrans's themes such as responsible travel; we believe that everyone can make a difference, for this reason as we approach a project we always try to assess the activity and identify changes that can be made to improve its sustainability.