2021 Exhibition
27. Lasers: Make Light Play
Mask Required Within the Art Installation Zone (Regardless of Vaccination Status). Social Distancing Encouraged. Hand Sanitizer Available.
Artist Information
Lasers: Make Light Play is an interactive laser art installation that enables visitors of all ages to control the kinetic laser displays projected on the Michigan Science Center. This celebration of light combines the playful talents of our visitors along with dynamic, abstract laser art produced live by our team of Illuminatus Lasers artists.
The audience interface is a series of fun, vintage lunchboxes with built in colorful, jewel-like, rotating knobs. Visitors control the brightness and speed of the shifting, dancing, wispy patterns in pure red, blue and green light evocative of the Aurora. These unique laser lumia projectors and their lunchbox controllers were built by Mike Gould.
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Mike Gould / Illuminatus Lasers
Mike Gould is a Michigan-based laser, graphics, and electronics artist. He was born and has spent most of his life in Ann Arbor. Mike has been working full time with lasers, electro-optic components, and industrial design since 2009.
Along with his Illuminatus Lasers troupe, Mike has designed, created, and presented laser art for thousands of people at museums, festivals, and art events nation-wide.
He has exhibited at Art Prize 2012, where he won his first ILDA award for Most Innovative Application at the 2013 ILDA Conference, held in Aalen, Germany. He has since won a total of four ILDA awards.
Illuminatus Lasers performed at DLECTRICITY in 2014. They are a regular fixture at FoolMoon and the Hands-On Museum in Ann Arbor.
In 2018 he presented new piece called Lasing Nang Talung at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison WI, as part of their GLEAM Event.
He exhibited Soleri, So Laser at the Canal Convergence light festival in Scottsdale AZ in November of 2019, Lunchboxing with Lasers at the Napa (CA) Lighted Arts Festival in 2020, and Legend of Sleepy Howell in Howell, MI in Oct. 2020. He currently has a laser exhibit at the MOXI museum in Santa Barbara, CA.
mikegouldlaserartist.com