Invited Speakers
IT01Bruce Ramus, AU
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Ramus' primary design intent is to bring harmony and movement to architecture, public art, staging and outdoor spaces through light and moving imagery. Vision To design and produce visually integrated human precincts through the use of light, sculpture, digital media and interactive technology. Experience Canadian born, Bruce Ramus began his career in the live music industry when he was nineteen and has been working as a light artist ever since. He has designed and directed countless international live shows and events including rock bands; U2, R.E.M., David Bowie, Bryan Adams, David Byrne, Guy Sebastian, James Brown and television shows including; the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, MTV Awards, ARIA awards and Super Bowl Halftime Shows. |
IT02Anya Hurlbert, GB
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The advent of tuneable, multi-channel LED light source technology enables vision scientists to probe better the human response to light, yielding greater understanding of how human physiology has adapted to natural environmental illuminations. At the same time, novel lighting technology allows designers to tune lighting to shape human behaviour in different environments. I will discuss interactions between the visual and non-visual systems in the human response to light, in terms of both visual performance, image perceptibility, and affective responses. I will consider the effects of dynamic changes in the spectral content of light on object colour perception, in the context of the basic phenomenon of human colour constancy, and in the context of applications, specifically lighting for museum paintings and for optimising human performance. (For an extended abstract click on the link above.) Anya Hurlbert is Professor of Visual Neuroscience and Director of the Centre for Translational Systems Neuroscience at Newcastle University. She trained as a physicist (BA 1980, Physics, Princeton University), physiologist (MA 1982, Cambridge University), neuroscientist (PhD 1989, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT), and physician (MD 1990, Harvard Medical School). Her main research interest is in understanding the human brain, through understanding the human visual system. She focusses on colour vision and its role in everyday visual and cognitive tasks, in normal development and ageing as well as in developmental disorders such as autism. She has particular research interests also in applied areas such as digital imaging and novel lighting technologies. One of her current research projects (HI-LED), funded by the EU FP7 programme, aims to understand how novel lighting technology may be used to optimise human health and performance. In 2004, she co-founded the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle, one of the UK’s foremost academic units focussed on neurosciences, uniting clinicians and basic scientists, and was Institute Director until 2014. Professor Hurlbert is active in the public understanding of science, and has devised and co-curated several science-based art exhibitions, most recently an interactive installation (a film, lighting demonstration and mass public experiment) at the National Gallery, London, for its 2014 summer exhibition. She lectures widely on colour perception and art, and contributes to media programmes on visual perception. She is past Chairman of the Colour Group (GB) and currently Scientist Trustee of the National Gallery. |
IT03Bryan King, NZ
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This paper will explore and analyse the design energy performance achieved by a selection of 83 actual lighting road schemes recently designed and installed across Australia and New Zealand covering both Category V (Main Roads) and Category P (Residential Roads). Bryan King is an experienced lighting practitioner and authority on road lighting practices worldwide. Bryan has a 30-year history of leadership and governance positions in lighting manufacturing and consultancy businesses for the professional and local government lighting sectors. He is a member of the AS/NZS1158 Road Lighting committee, convener of the AS/NZS1158 Energy Performance Working Group, a member of AS/NZS EL-041 Lamps and Luminaires committee and Head of Delegation of the International Electrotechnical Commission NZ National Committee TC34-Lamps and Luminaires. Bryan was the Founding Chairman of Lighting Council NZ and is currently the Executive Director. As a principal of SLP, Bryan has undertaken road lighting consulting assignments for the New Zealand Energy Efficiency & Conservation Authority, the South Australian Department of State Development, NSW and QLD councils, NZ councils and the Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia. He has also undertaken LED lighting consultancy for the IFC-World Bank. |