Light Art. Artificial Light
Light as A Medium in the Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries Published by Hatje Cantz.
Edited by Peter Weibel and Gregor Jansen Essays by Andreas Beitin, Dietmar Elger, Friedrich Kittler, Gnter Leising, Frank Popper, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Sara Selwood, Peter Sloterdijk, Stephan von Wiese, Yvonne Ziegler and Daniela Zyman, One-hundred years ago, Einstein solved the elemental mystery of the nature of light: it is both an electromagnetic wave and a stream of particles. It is a form of energy that moves at a speed of 299.792.458 m/s. It is a medium like no other, and nothing has revolutionized and democratized our world in the way that the control of electric light has.
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