Artist duo [Kimchi and Chips](http://www.kimchiandchips.com/) produce what can best be described as visual feasts. The collaboration between British digital media artist, technologist, and curator Elliot Woods and South Korean Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design graduate, Mimi Son, provides viewers with mesmerizing [cosmic projection mapping displays](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/new-installation-creates-stellar-nurseries-with-code-and-geometric-light) and [hauntingly impressive 3D light artworks](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/3d-air-drawing-produces-lunar-long-exposure-photographs).

Commissioned for the 2015 edition of the [STRP Festival](http://strp.nl/en/), _[Light Barrier Second Edition](http://www.kimchiandchips.com/#lightbarriersecondedition)_ is their most recent physical installation. Incorporating the use of concave mirrors, projection and scanning, its visuals follow a story which seizes your attention from the offset. In the continuation of their 2014 [_Light Barrier_](http://www.kimchiandchips.com/works.html#lightbarrier) piece, viewers travel into a realm of light and sound, following a digital form that moves through the light barrier, transcending the limits of its home, and passes through the light barrier once more (leaving the door open for a third edition, or so we hope!)

Concave mirrors, Projection, Scanning
2015

Kimchi and Chips' new work commissioned by STRP Festival continues the work of the original 「Light Barrier, 2014」 into a new story with new physical techniques.

The visual story follows the journey of a digital form. It begins by passing through the Light Barrier, so that this digital form transcends the limits of its home reality and enters into our physical one. It then explores the possibilities of its new found physicality, whilst attempting to assert its digital identity. Finally the form travels through the Light Barrier again to pass away to the next reality.

The physical installation is presented with a heightened intensity, creating colour and contrast against the ephemeral white light projections. The light travels with scale and control to create determined objects of light within the air, further opening a window onto a semi-material mode of existence.

CREDIT

[ARTISTS]
Mimi Son
Elliot Woods

[SOUND DESIGN]
Junghoon Pi (http://www.junghoonpi.com/)
Junyoung Park (https://soundcloud.com/junyoung_park)

[PRODUCTION DESIGNER]
Onjeong Rhee
Artur Musalimov

[VIDEO]
Mimi Son
Elliot Woods

http://www.kimchiandchips.com/#lightbarriersecondedition

Light Barrier - Second Edition, 2015

[Light Barrier - Second Edition, 2015](https://vimeo.com/129862202) from [Mimi Son](https://vimeo.com/mimison) on [Vimeo](https://vimeo.com/).

Find more of Kimchi & Chips' light delights on their [website](http://www.kimchiandchips.com). Related:

_[New Installation Creates Star Nurseries With Code and Geometric Light](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/new-installation-creates-stellar-nurseries-with-code-and-geometric-light)_

_[Architectural Web Of Threads Gets Irradiated In Remarkable Audio-Visual Installation](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/architectural-web-of-threads-get-irradiated-in-remarkable-audio-visual-installation)_

_[Artist Manipulates a Universe of Light and Sound with a Single Balloon](http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/artist-manipulates-a-universe-of-light-and-sound-with-a-single-balloon)_

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