30/10/2024
Halloween at The Mandrake Hotel was gothic, classy and dark. Bending light to transform spaces is what we do best. The dining room was treated to a 360 degree slide projector wrap which was synchronised to bring dark and mysterious architectures to this otherwise formal space.
08/09/2024
Tree Circle Cinema is an annual community event that has grown slowly from grass roots experimental idealism and has developed sponsorship relationships within the community. Each year an outdoor cinema takes place in the natural auditorium of Millfields Park - the tree circle. An outdoor screen and projection booth are erected, films are wrangled, families turn up, sit down, chat and watch a movie in the open air. Blankets and thermoses come out and everyone settles in. It is always magical.
20/06/2024
Mending Rainbow Man's glasses and giving him some brand new content. The Rainbow Man sculpture by Paul Insect has become a Glastonbury icon but the LED screens in its glasses needed to be fixed. When the fix was completed we then went on to provide a set of new visuals giving the sculpture a whole brand new lease of life.
30/05/2024
We designed this in-the-round CRT installation to enable the client to get bang for their buck! The installation feels quite monumental as the stacks are organised in a cylindrical form but rather than a solid block, they are arranged with gaps allowing a view through. This set up worked particularly well in the window where 360 degrees of it could be seen from both the interior and the exterior of the Royal Festival Hall.
20/04/2024
This pared down technology store has the coolest graphics that work so brilliantly on our small CRT stacks. We provided kit and content playback as well as a neat short throw projector for a merch area. The analogue equipment slots in so neatly to the elegant and minimal store design.
05/03/2024
Emmyland kickass at BSC Expo. A great use of the Seleco CRT monitor wall was our recent outing to BSC Expo where we installed a 20 monitor wall for Emmyland. Their logo and colours are PINK which we carefully mapped and colour balanced to the wall. The set was part of a cool and fun disruption in the Expo! Read more...
01/02/2024
We are often approached to assist with the recreation of original slide projections., sometimes we source specific machines, sometimes we recreate the works from the original artists instructions. In this case we provided projectors for Spruth Magers for a recent installation of Untitled (Questions Projection, small) 1981-2001. Read more ...
30/01/2024
Our 35mm slide library is a vast resource of analogue handmade celluloid slides along with thousands of photographic images which have been gathered and archived in our slide library. Read more...
19/01/2024
We have been working with CRT video walls for decades now and have a large stock of them at our studio in Clapton. Read more...
18/01/2024
The Light Surgeons Takeover at Ikletic marks the end of an important phase of Londons experimental Audio Visual scene. Read more...
23/11/2023
Our latest monitor wall installation has involved a wall of forty television monitors which have been installed in the windows of 11 Rathbone Place. Read more...
10/11/2023
Higham Hill Signal Box is a rare beauty, and celebrated its 150 years anniversary. Read more...
06/11/2023
"We can hardly find words for how happy we all were with last night’s show. Read more...
22/10/2023
Our ability to source and problem solve older technologies sometimes takes us to interesting places. Read more...
19/10/2023
The Orb's Further Adventures Live 2016 - it was a while ago but this image popped up and its still fresh! Read more ...
18/10/2023
This simple installation demanded a high attention to detail in order to elevate the projected pieces for Menelaos Karamaghiolis 'A Bird in Search of a Cage' at Rodeo Gallery. Read more...
19/04/2023
We have been working with the choreographer and artist Hattie Worboys to enable her latest work. We designed and installed a six screen projection arena 'in the round' at Iklectik. The audience are surrounded by the projections and the piece is co-ordinated from one screen to the next to create an 'immersive' experience.
19/04/2023
We now have sixteen of these monitors which means there is now the scope to make all sorts of things happen on a fine looking video wall. This pic is of nine being used as a backdrop for a video shoot. Got a project that needs a video wall? Get in touch!
01/02/2023
Overnight we created a 30m long internally lit cloud queueing experience at the front of Selfridges to celebrate the final in a three part collaboration between Studio Ghibli and Loewe. Read more...
22/11/2022
Seven floors of colour changing temporary lighting in a stairwell....
22/11/2022
A day of concentration, learning, making, sharing, splicing, looping, scratching, painting and some laughter. If you missed the tickets this time around just keep ’em peeled on Insta or Eventbrite where we will advertise the next round some time in 2023
16/02/2022
Our first Liquid Light workshop took place in our studio in February. With OHP's, light pads, inks and dyes we tripped the light fantastic with six enthusiastic participants. Due to popular demand we have organised another workshop for March.
05/02/2022
Our Clay Paky Astrospider had such a great trip around the UK for the filming of Whitesand Bay for Metronomy. Such a simple and elegant idea from our friends and collaborators Sam Davies and Tom Andrew. Beautifully shot and edited it makes complete sense!
05/02/2022
Hackney Stand Up to Racism held a protest outside the newly renamed Museum of the Home, protesting against the retention of slaver Robert Geffrye’s statue on the front of the building. Read more...
05/02/2022
A lovely collaboration with our friends at Greenaway and Greenaway to supply, produce and install pop up projections in a few empty shops on Leytonstone High Road. The shops are lit on Fridays and Saturdays in December 2020 as part of Walthamforest Council's incentive to bring life and joy into Leytonstone Town Centre this Christmas.
05/09/2021
We worked closely with the Barbican to manage the content preparation, technical set up and operation of an ambitious film festival, wrangling over one hundred films in numerous formats for seven different venues across the three days of the festival. It was a weekend of diverse films in the heart of Leytonstone and our job was to make sure that each show was a smooth and seamless audience experience. Highlights were John Smiths talk, Eithne Nightingale's s Ugwumpiti and Agnes Varda The Gleaners and I.
05/07/2021
For the last 25 years we have been taking a bus-mans holiday to a perfect corner of Cornwall to perform outdoor projections for a very small but culturally important festival where the combination of live music, dj's, performers and poets is an annual joy and surprise.
05/06/2021
One of our first projects as lockdowns lifted was to light these beautiful paintings by Ryan Driscoll for Soft Opening. Each piece was lit with a tightly focussed beam, precisely trimmed to the edges of the canvas creating. The gallery lighting was kept to minimal levels creating a quiet encironment that allowed the paintings to clearly punctuate the space.
05/11/2020
Making Places and Walthamforest Council commissioned us to complete a lighting and sound installation in Larkshall Underpass, Chingford. This dimly lit underpass has been uplifted with the use of birdsong and a sunset/sunrise lighting pallet. The lighting is programmed to gently fade through colour cycles whilst bursts of birdsong play out intermittently throughout the day. 'Lark' has been shortlisted for the Darc Awards 2020.
05/12/2019
We were delighted to be invited to design and install an architects' Christmas party for the third year running. From our Rare Disco hire stock we used the Clay Paky Astro Spider and Fabtronics Harvester. We used festoon lighting in vertical drops, Encapsulite Sticklites, Martin Rainbow, Mode Arcline, Prolights Lumipix8h Battens, Unique2 Hazer, Slides and Solars. The sequencing is the fun bit.
05/07/2019
We worked with Luke Losey to create darkness and light. Using synchronised slide projectors and low level atmospheric lighting Imelda May's performance 'Hallowed' was an experimental return to her love of performance poetry. Strobe lights and lamp drops animated overhead raven silhouettes to create a dramatic shadow play.
24/06/2019
We thought this was a great shot of what actually happens behind the scenes at a high end furniture shoot! We provided photographer Thomas Brown with some large scale projections to bounce off some very shiny surfaces as part of the scenography for his furniture shoot for Wallpaper magazine.
20/06/2019
We pulled off a series of monumental projections on Central London landmarks for the launch of Thom Yorke's new solo album. Projections at Marble Arch, Big Ben and Tate Modern asked the viewer "Do you have trouble remembering your dreams?" and "You’re deep in a surreal world where you can be anybody you like, where you can do anything. And then when you wake up, the dream fades. It’s gone, or is it?" "Just call the number.”
05/05/2019
We designed Super Moon projections with a starscape created with our Clay Paky Astroraggis for this recent event. This is what our client had to say about it: "A huge thank you to @insightlighting for understanding what I wanted and being such a pleasure to work with. We can't thank you guys enough. You made it look so magical 🌜🔮 we will be recommending you to everybody"