Listen to Lighting Designers and Artists to find out more about their passions on lighting architecture.
Signify and the Lighting Academy hosted the 4th Burlington Sessions, a CoCreate aimed at bringing together world renown lighting artists and designers. This invitation only event, is leading the way into the future of lighting.
These sessions are very hands-on, Signify shares some of the solutions we are developing in a very early stage, our guests were able to experiment and explore, and share their ideas on what/how would these concepts work for them and their customers.
The goal is to engage with extreme/ fringe lighting artists and designers – those who inspire us, push the limits of what lighting can do, create a new language of lighting!
Dietrich Juengling (USA)
Lighting Designer
Dietrich has over 37 years of design experience and having worked extensively throughout the United States and Asia, He has an immense amount of experience collaborating with people of various cultures.
As Principal Designer at Universal Studios Japan, he managed design, schedules from schematics through installation, budgets, and negotiations with major regional vendors.
As a result of his experience overseas, Dietrich realized the importance of 3D imaging as a tool for communication.
He focused his energies developing tools and methods to create photorealistic images to better convey design and installation intent.
The photorealistic images enabled his clients to save millions of dollars’ worth of potential delays and changes.
For the last 15 years, Dietrich has exclusively worked with Marc Brickman to bring all his talents to bear.
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Marc's groundbreaking work as an artist, director, producer and lighting designer has reached audiences of millions world-wide. Marc's work includes productions for Pink Floyd, Paul McCartney, In 2012 Anthony Malkin, chairman, president and CEO of Empire State Realty Trust tapped Brickman to re-imagine the lighting of the Empire State Building. Since then Marc's work with The Empire State Building has transcended definition.
Technological innovations over the last 50 years include:
First use of moving video screens (Genesis 1992), implementation of the world’s most powerful copper-vapor lasers (Pink Floyd 1994), first designer to assemble a team of programmers who specialized in control of their respective technologies...now called the production desk (Pink Floyd 1987), patents on a smoke curtain (for Steven Spielberg’s A.I.), an audio sync app (used at Empire State Building, Vulcan Statue, Noor Riyadh), and an inflatable touring venue/soundstage, as well as revolutionary changes in computerized lighting control and fixture automation.
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Kai Diederichsen
Owner, Luz en Arquitectura SC, Independent Lighting Designer
Kai is a Lighting Designer based in Mexico City. He understands light as a revealer and definer of three dimensional space, since he was trained as an architect, specialized in architecture and environment.
Before he founded Luz en Arquitectura more than 20 years ago with his partner Jessica Rodriguez, Kai collaborated with Gustavo Avilés in Mexico - where he worked more empirical with light, and with Bartenbach in Austria where the focus was more technical. Over the years he has developed his own vision of light, influenced by some of the recent neuroscientific research that studies the impact of light on human beings and linking these to his many years of experience he has with light. He has also been a lecturer in Latin America, Europe and the US
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Guto Requena
Architect and Creative Cirector Estudio Guto Requena
Diretor Criativo no Estudio Guto Requena
Brazilian architect Guto Requena creates projects through the use of digital technologies, guided by sustainability, aiming to stimulate empathy. Light Creature is a 30th floor media facade that reacts according to the pollution and urban sounds in São Paulo and the Dancing Pavilion is kinetic architecture in Rio de Janeiro that reacts to people's emotions collected by sensors inside the building. Estudio Guto Requena works through different scales as architecture, master plan, product design and interactive installation
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David Spriggs
Contemporary Artist
David Spriggs is an artist exploring the space between the 2nd and 3rd dimensions. Spriggs is known for his unique large-scale 3D ephemeral-like installations that use a technique he pioneered in 1999 layering transparent images.
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Deepu Raj
Founder/Principal Designer - LET Design
Deepu Raj is a visionary and creative individual, known for his innovative artistry, entrepreneurial spirit, and technological expertise in the lighting industry. With over two decades of experience, he has established an impeccable career as a leader.
He consistently sets new benchmarks for industry standards, demonstrating his passion for staying up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies. As a leader, Deepu excels in delegating responsibilities and mentoring his large team.
His commitment to ongoing learning and professional development is evident in his ability to consistently create stunning displays of light and shadow.
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Dorothy di Stefano
Thought Leader Immersive Art, Curator,
Creative Strategist, Arts Consultant, Art Director
Burlington Sessions #1: 2018
Listen to the video interviews of the following participants - Al Borden, Marcelo Coelho, Claudia Paz, Marc Largent, Janet Echelman, Bill FitzGibbons, Grimanesa Amoros, Garou Blancan
Burlington Sessions #2: 2019
Listen to the individual video interviews of the following participants: Clint Baclawski, Yves Mayrand, David Rose, Michael Stiller, Leni Schwendinger, Arlon Bayliss, Sabrina Mandel, Kate Raudenbush, Tapio Rosenius, Zih Jing Wei
Burlington Sessions #3: 2022
Listen to the individual video interviews of the following participants: Amy Critchett, Eli Sirlin, Wouter Westen, Lyn Godley, Robb Pope, Sarvdeep Basur, Matthew Schreiber, Andrea Mantello0