Grant Cutler Palace, 2016
June–August Installation
Analog Lumia Box, MultiChannel Audio, Neon Light
Palace is an exploration of color, form, and movement inspired by theory and mechanics of early Lumia.
The term Lumia was coined by artist Thomas Wilfred, in the early part of the 20th century, to define the art of moving light. Lumia artists build kinetic sculptures to choreograph abstract, changing compositions of light. This unique art form gained in practice and popularity through the 1950s, only to be slowly forgotten, as film and television became ever more ubiquitous. A small handful of modern artists are dedicated to maintaining and evolving this artform.
Grant Cutler is a South Dakotaborn Composer and MultiMedia artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. For the last decade he has produced music for and collaborated with artists spanning many genres and mediums. Cutler’s recent work explores the phenomena surrounding acts of recollection through experimental sound and kinetic visuals, representing memory concurrently forming and dissolving.