Lighting Design workshop by Jonathan O’Hear

Swiss Lighting Designer Jonathan O’ Hear is in India on the invitation of Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts, Bangalore and Gati Dance Forum in Delhi to conduct workshops on 'Light as an artistic medium.

Swiss Lighting Designer Jonathan O' Hear is in India on the invitation of Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts, Bangalore and Gati Dance Forum in Delhi to conduct workshops on 'Light as an artistic medium.

Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts, Bangalore presents an advanced workshop in Lighting Design by Swiss Lighting Designer Jonathan O'Hear.

Date: 25 & 26 May 2013
Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Venue: Attakkalari Center for Movement Arts, 24-04, 1st Cross, Wilson Garden, Bangalore 560 027, India.
Entry: by registration only. For more details call 7406865628 / 08022122684
or contact Vijay Saravanan C R, Production Coordinator at vijay(at)attakkalari.org

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After the workshops in Bangalore, Swiss lighting designer Jonathan O’ Hear will be Delhi at the invitation of Gati Dance Forum to conduct workshops on ‘Light as an Artistic Medium.’
Date: Sat & Sun, 8 & 9 June 2013
Entry: By registration only
To register for the workshop please email gatidance@gmail.com with your name, phone number and email address.

This is a non-technical lighting design workshop for choreographers, aspiring lighting designers or anyone who is curious about understanding light. The discussion will include light in nature and in art focusing on its emotional and psychological effects on human beings. This workshop is an attempt to understand how one can use light as an artistic medium for stage performances, as objects, and in life. In concordance with the multifaceted nature of light, the workshop will be a mix of theory, observation and sensing.

For more information please contact: www.gatidance.com 
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Jonathan O'Hear trained as a film-maker in Vancouver in the 80's where he acquired a taste for manipulating light, sound and video in various contexts. After receiving his diploma in Video and Film Production, from the Vancouver Film School and Columbia Academy, Vancouver, Jonathan O'Hear returned to Geneva and worked as a sound and lights operator, and then as lighting and video designer. He then moved to Brussels where he continued lighting design and consequently worked as an independent multimedia designer. Jonathan now lives in Geneva and has worked for choreographers such as Foofwa D'Imobilité (Neopost Ahrrrt), Rebecca Spinetti (Cobalt) and director, Georges Guereiro (Baraka cie) on all their productions. Jonathan has been the lighting and video designer for over a hundred productions in New York, Geneva, Paris and Brussels in venues such as Baryshnikov Arts Center, Dance New Amsterdam, Association de la Danse Contemporaine, Bercy, Le théâtre des Amandiers, Palexpo, La Comédie de Genève, le Botanique, le Théâtre Varia and many others. He has also been the director of photography for a dozen short movies and music and sports video clips.

Off late, Jonathan has been working on Design and production of interactive video for live performances and development of a video compression system for low bandwidth. He has been experimenting with the use of new technologies and human interference such as generating an organic form of light movement and using a track pad to move and reshape it live during the performance.

Today he lives in Switzerland and works primarily as a lighting designer for the performing arts.