February 11, 2013
Light in Flux
Glenn Shrum
Glenn Shurm is owner and founder of Flux Studio located in
Baltimore, Maryland. Glenn graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2008, University of North Carolina B.A. Architecture 1993 and MICA Masters in
Art 2008. Schrum has years of experience
in teaching and speaking on the subject of lighting and architecture. Glenn
Shrum investigates and manipulates the interrelationship of light, space, and
time.
Glenn’s interest in light started as a child in school. While sitting in a sunny classroom, young Glenn
would follow the light across the classroom’s wall reflected from his watch. Light became his passion and his
profession.
http://www.fluxstudio.net/permanent.php
Glenn showed a 2006 time lapsed video of a window with a
shade that showed how powerful the changing natural light. Shrum studied how natural light effect architecture
in several historical sites. He also
discussed how natural environment and light affect an architectural space. Glenn shared a story about a lighting project
MICA dorm. MICA’s dorm interior courtyard
lights are lowered at midnight to signal the students for quiet time. A wonderful surprise is that the lower intensity
light produces a star effect in the courtyard.
Shrum explained that until the age of the computer our sight
primarily engaged peripheral vision.
Spending so much time in front of a computer has changed our vision to primarily
direct vision. Glenn designs his
lighting project to engage both direct and peripheral vision. Glenn Shrum is a master of light, space,
shadow to delight the senses and the mind.
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