PODCAST—Revealing the Story with Light with Steven Rosen and Ted Mather

Is lighting art or science? If you’re a curator tasked with lighting design, where do you start? Is lighting about light, or about shadows? Lighting designers Steven Rosen and Ted Mather (Available Light) join host Jonathan Alger (C&G Partners) on Making the Museum, the podcast, to discuss Revealing the Story with Light. Along the way, we learn how an exhibition is like a theatrical stage, and get a reminder that design is a team sport.

WEBINAR — Like a circus, experience design can be thrilling and magical.

But it can also be, well, kind of a circus. How do you make sure there’s someone to catch the person leaping from the trapeze at just the right moment? Especially when the spotlight is on?

In this webinar, Trent Oliver of Blue Telescope shares process insights, collaboration tools, and best practices for working with all of the various members of an extended experience design team:

• when (and how!) to loop in each of your collaborators with confidence

• how to maintain a “single version of the truth” across distributed teams

• how to manage approvals, budgets, and all of the potentially dangerous backflips

• … and, most importantly, how not to lose sight of your dreams.

Moderated by Steven Rosen, President & Creative Director of Available Light. Q&A session follows the presentation.

WEBINAR — Whether you are building a new facility or renovating an existing space, infrastructure-planning and future-proofing your project will save you time and grief. This Praxis webinar will help advance your master-planning efforts with intelligent and timely advice.

ARTICLE — LEDs have proven to be a groundbreaking device in the toolbox of museum exhibition professionals but, like any technological revolution, traditional lighting 101 basics are now outdated and are in need of revision and expansion.

ARTICLE — Man, we lighting designers are in a rough spot. As students, it was beaten into us to focus on visibility, composition, balance, color and movement. We were trained to consume - sustainability was not a part of the equation.

ARTICLE — When trying to define my occupation to the uninitiated, I often use the analogy that light is to the eyes what music is to the ears. Rhythm, tempo, timber, and layers are my toolbox. To me, “going green” is another tool. It doesn’t mean turn down the music; it means turn it off when no one is listening and it means thoughtfully applying light to tasks, objects, surfaces, and environments.