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Paul Friedlander Scientific
Artist: Light
Sculptor: E-mail
paul@paulfriedlander.com Website www.paulfriedlander.com |
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RECENT WORK HISTORY Major commissions, prizes, exhibitions and other notable events. For more information on all topics, please visit my website. |
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Date
of birth Place
of birth Nationality |
19
August 1951 Manchester British |
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2006 |
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Installation
for Milan Design Week, April. The largest work so far created. This 15 metre
tall light sculpture, The Gate of Time, was installed at the Porta
Ticenese, a grand ceremonial gateway. ·
One
man-show Sala Parpallo, Valencia, Spain, May 17 – July 9. Show comprised of
two sections of retrospective work and the new installation, Timeless
Universe. The largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date. A
conference was arranged to go with the show on the subject Time Does Not
Exist. Conference speakers included myself and the noted English physicist,
Julian Barbour. A catalogue of the show is about to be published. |
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2005 |
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Permanent installation for Wolfsburg Science Centre, Germany. This brand
new science center already famous for its fine building designed by Saha
Hadid houses a fascinating collection, including my piece: String Theory. ·
Installation
in Waterlow Park, London as part of a special event organized by the charity
Garden Africa. ·
Installation
for the 46th International Film Festival, Thesaloniki, Greece,
November. |
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2004 |
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Installation
at the Feria, in Gijon, northern Spain, August. Hydro Cantabrico,
the regional electric power utility sponsored this event. It was very popular
with well over a thousand people viewing the show daily and long cues during
peak times. ·
Installation at the CanariaMediaFest, Las Palmas,
Gran Canaria, October. CanariaMediaFest is a showcase for performance, video
art, electronic music, animation and Net Art. ·
Permanent installation at the October Gallery,
London, UK. Opened in November to coincide with the 25th
anniversary festival for this fascinating gallery and eco-culture centre that
also houses the offices of the Planetary Coral Reef Foundation and the
Institute of Ecotechnics. ·
Kinetic
Art Organization Prize winner. |
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2003 |
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Installation
at the Arenas Movedizas festival, in Gijon, northern
Spain, August. A culture festival mostly featuring digital works by Spanish
young artists. The installation was in a chapel by the waterfront that is
more than 300 year old. It has been converted to an art museum. I consider it
the most perfect installation created to date. ·
Installation
on the left bank of the Seine, Paris, June. The occasion was to celebrate the
re-inauguration of a major kinetic sculpture by Nicholas Schoffer. This
extraordinary work is more than 10 metres high and is situated in a park by
the Seine. The event was to mark the moment it was switched back on after
many years of lying idle, following attack by vandals. ·
Installation
at Art Rock, St Brieuc, northern France, June. Art Rock is an annual culture
festival held in this lively small city. Other works included installation by
sound artists, dance and musical performances. ·
Kinetic
Art Organization Prize winner. ·
Installation
at Sonic Light, Paradiso, Amsterdam February. The Sonic Light conference and
festival chose visual music as it themes in 2003 and invited a large number
of artist and composers in the field to participate. |
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2002 |
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Main
Exhibitor at Art Futura 2002, Contemporary Culture Centre, Barcelona. Art
Futura is one of the worlds leading show cases for digital art, held annually
in Spain. This festival was founded
in 1991 and has been presented every year since. Three new works were created
for the show, The Wave Equation, The Suspended Wave and the Hyper Spheres.
The Suspended Wave is an outdoor piece that was hung from the 30 metre high
roof in the courtyard of the CCCB. ·
Exhibition at the Resonant Wave
Festival Spannwerk, Berlin, May – June. This international festival brought
together visual and performing artists from USA, Israel, UK and Germany. The
new light sculpture, Manifold Wave was suspended from the 15 metre high
ceiling of the main transformer hall in this converted power station. ·
Many of the works on show at
the Singapore Science Centre, including the largest piece, the 10 metre tall
Floating Wave were subsequently purchased by the Science Centre and are now
in their permanent collection. |
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2001 |
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One Man Show at the Singapore
Science Centre, October – January 2002. There are a group of seven new
suspended light sculptures hung from the 25 metre high ceiling of the large
central atrium and exhibition space, shown here for the first time. The
exhibition also includes a retrospective selection of other works. ·
Exit Festival, Maisons des
Arts, Creteil, Paris. Major exhibitor to this large international festival of
performing and visual arts. Pieces on show included a retrospective of works
since 1981. The most recent work, Wave Factory is 9 metres tall. ·
Via Festival, Le Manege,
Maubeuge. The Exit Festival was taken on tour to northern France. ·
Commission for Satellite Media
Services company HQ, UK. 4.6 metre high light sculpture in the entrance to
the new building. |
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2000 |
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Exhibition of kinetic light
sculpture at Nutopia, Britain’s first cyberlounge, Covent Garden, London. ·
Opening of The New Art gallery,
Walsall. This is a major new art gallery built at a cost of over £20 million
pounds, located close to Birmingham, UK. ·
Commission for construction and
exhibition of The Wave Factory for inter:face, a festival organised by
Digital Summer in Manchester. |
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1999 |
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Commission for the construction
of a Nambu, an interactive light
sculpture for the New Art Gallery, Walsall. The work is part of their
permanent collection. |
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1998 |
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Receive the Ushio America Award
for Innovation. ·
Winner of Lightforms ’98,
international competition organised by ASCI for creation of site specific
interactive lightforms on a monumental scale. The twenty five foot high work, Dark Matter, comprised of a gyrating
rope in combination with a 4000 watt chromastrobic arc lamp and interactive
control system using ultrasonic Soundbeams to create a kinetic column of
light, which could in part be controlled by the onlookers but also emanated a
sense of power beyond control with its glowing lightforms and aeolian sound
rising and falling in response to the changing patterns of activity. The
installation was shown at the New York Hall of Science, April 16 - May 31. |
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1997 |
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Commission to design and
manufacture 3D scanner prototype for Tom DeWitt, American video artist and
inventor. ·
Co-invent 'Megamouse' with my
son, Jack, the mouse so large you have to sit on it and push it round with
your feet. Performance with Jack featuring Megamouse and other light works at
Technorama, Switzerland’s leading science museum. |
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1996 |
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Author of Zip Art software for
graphics and animation, a unique, powerful and fun approach to computer
graphics. Mathematical algorithms from Chaos theory have been used to
generate stunning imagery, but these take a long time to render. Zip Art
algorithms can be computed in real time. A user with minimal drawing skills can
create beautiful images with a choice of hundreds of fractal like drawing
tools. ·
Commission for two nine foot
high interactive light sculptures commissioned for 'Energy and Movement' by
Mercedes Benz for hands on exhibition touring throughout Germany. ·
Open Web Site. |
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1995 |
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Recommendatory Prize for the
work Light Waves on exhibition at
the 4th International Biennial in Nagoya ARTEC'95, Japan. Major international
exhibition of high tech art. ·
Light Waves, one man show, Art
Museum, Walsall, England. ·
Commission for Technorama,
Switzerland’s leading science museum: Light Spinner, Permanent Installation:
touch screen controlled interactive thirteen foot high light sculpture. |
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1994 |
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Light Fantastic, Art Museum,
Walsall, England. Group Show of Light Art in the town museum, a place known
for its annual Light Spectacular. ·
Lichtspielereien. Group show in
Technorama, Switzerland. |
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1993 |
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Collaborative piece with Danny
Lane, Economist's Plaza, London. Danny Lane is perhaps Britain’s top glass
artist. We made a work together, Northern Light, a sand blasted glass
construction like a sail onto which I projected chromatic light. 6 x 20 x 12
feet high. ·
Major exhibitor, Images du
Futur, Montreal, Canada. The Big String at eighteen feet high was the tallest
piece in the show. ·
Commission for BT Head Office,
Art in the City, London. 22 foot tall fibre optic sculpture, situated in a
100 foot high Atrium window close to St Paul's Cathedral. |
PREVIOUS
EXPERIENCE
Mixed
career working as a Lighting designer, mainly in avant-garde music concerts and
theatre shows. Also some commercial designs leading to various licence
agreements along with earlier exhibitions of visual art.
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1992 |
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Issue commercial licence in USA
for 'Light Guide Lamp'. |
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1991 |
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Issue commercial licences in UK
and USA for 'Optic Nerve'. ·
Appearance of 'String Ray' on
BBC 1 "Tomorrow's World". |
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1990 |
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Appearance on BBC 2 "The
Late Show". ·
Exhibition, Omphalos Gallery,
London. ·
Attend and lecture,
Arttransition '90, Centre for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, USA. |
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1989 |
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Exhibition: The Exploratory,
Bristol; ·
Exhibition: The Young Unknowns,
London. ·
Electric Angels, Slaughterhouse
Gallery, London. First Installation of spinning strings light sculptures
illuminated with chromastrobic light. |
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1988 |
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Exhibition: Omphalos Gallery,
London. |
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1985-1988 |
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Lighting director for the
Electro-Acoustic Music Association of Great Britain. Concerts held at: Place
Theatre, October Gallery, The Royal College of Music, The Almeida Theatre,
Queen Elizabeth Hall. Performers include Roger Smalley, Stephen Montague,
Vocem, Metanoia, Francis Monkman and Steve Reich. ·
Lighting director for Man
Jumping, Queen Elizabeth Hall. ·
Lighting director for The
Electric Symphony Orchestra. Concerts held at: Corn Exchange, Cambridge,
Bloomsbury Theatre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Sadler's Wells Theatre. Soloists
include Francis Monkman and Terry Riley. |
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1983 |
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Exhibition Event, first public
show of light sculptures illuminated by chromastrobic light, ICA, London. |
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1982 |
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Lighting director for John
Cooper-Clarke, U.K. tour. |
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1980 |
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Special effects director , Oval
House Theatre, London. |
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1979 |
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Lighting director for Ken
Campbell's 'The Warp', Edinburgh Festival Fringe & The Round House,
London. |
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1978 |
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Open Studio exhibition, Space
Studios, Lewisham, London. ·
Lighting director for Notting
Hill Carnival. |
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1977 |
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Open Studio exhibition, Space
Studios, Lewisham, London. |
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1976 |
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Stage & Lighting designer
for Bristol Revunions, Edinburgh Festival Fringe. |
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1975 |
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Stage & Lighting designer
for: Morphic Dance Co. Gulbenkian Foundation sponsored stage play, Crediton
Community Centre, Devon. |
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1974 |
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South Western Arts Association
sponsored touring exhibition. |
EDUCATION
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62-68 |
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Educated, Cambridgeshire High
School for Boys. |
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69-72 |
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Sussex University, School of
Maths & Physical Sciences. Graduated with BSc Hons. |
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73-76 |
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Exeter College of Art, Faculty
of Fine art, Sound & Light Dept. Graduated with BA Hons. |