Studio Dyan Jong

June 23, 2023

Medium: Joleko 800, Viper fog machines, LEE FiltersDimensions:Commissioned by: LA Design FestivalLocation: The ROW DTLADescription:

December 28, 2022

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December 31, 2021

Medium: Light installation with velour, fog machine and Source 4 LekosDimensions: 3’ x 3’ x 3’Description: Continuing my series of at-home small scale prototyping. Light installation research in my backyard with fog and lekos.Made while crossing over from 2021 into 2022, this ephemeral veil of light and smoke presents a cusp of transition that both separates and welcomes the passenger into an uncertain destination.

October 15, 2020

Coming soonMedium: Light installation using 2 K5600 Joleko 1600sDimensions: 100’ x 30’ x 20’Location: El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, Adelanto, CaliforniaDescription: Welcome is an immersive light installation in the El Mirage dry lakebed, a popular film location in California. The special effects fog diffracts into open gates of light, creating an opportunity in the bleak landscape.Team:Producer: Annee Elliot
Location Scout: Mike Green
Music: Light Lines by Lucy YaoStill Photography: Driely Vieira
Cinematographer: Andrew Yuyi Truong
1st AC: Felipe Larrondo
Assistant: Ligeia Moltisanti
Color: Gabe SanchezDrone Dudes:
Pilot: Andrew Petersen
Camera Operator: Jake Howard
Drone Tech: Tyler Higgins
BTS photographer: Colin LeiboldSpecial thanks to Tribe7 for sponsoring Blackwing7 lenses, and SYNC Photo Rental for the equipment.

September 24, 2020 - present

Medium: Web-based virtual light and poetry installation made using UnityDimensions: N/A, size of your computer screenLocation: http://beyond.gardenCommissioned by: LA Design FestivalDescription: Web-VR poetry installation collaboration between Studio Dyan Jong, floorkids.studio, and Nick Gregg. Beyond Garden creates a space for healing, togetherness, and encounter, within the confines of a browser. The concept was led by a desire to create a digital Chinese garden, or "yuan," which are public spaces for visitors to contemplate the harmony of man and nature. As a visitor enters the mysterious, dune-like capsules throughout the landscape, they find themself immersed inside bi-lingual poems whispered and written by diasporic Chinese poets (JinJin Xu, Carlina Duan, Jiaoyang Li).

July 5, 2020

Medium: Light installation with pegboard, velour, fog machine and sunlightDimensions: 3’ x 3’ x 3’Description: First in my series of at-home small scale prototyping. VR light installation research in my backyard with fog and sunlight.I was planning my solo light installation show for May 16, 2020, but as we know, all live events became postponed indefinitely re: pandemic. I’ve continued to research my ideas in quarantine, with the purpose of screening speculative pieces for my eventual show.Inspired by paper architecture models, I created a small scale prototype in my backyard as a proof of concept using sunlight, Home Depot pegboard, black fabric, a rented fog machine. The “installation” was a 3ft cube, which is a fraction of my usual large scale immersives, but since no one can attend my “show” in person (due to social distancing), the size of the piece is irrelevant.I filmed this WIP footage with my cell phone and 360 camera, and the results were unexpectedly immersive. The focus of this series will be on pre-visualization for a future light show and exploration of digital immersion.

February 8, 2020

Medium: Light installation using Dedolight 1200, Rosco hazersDimensions: N/A, filled to fit the venueLocation: San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel, CACommissioned by: Dopium LA x San Gabriel Lunar New Year FestivalDescription: Collaboration with Richard Tranley. The volumetric projection of the Chinese character for “individual,” 个, invites viewers to contemplate: “What does the second generation view as prosperity?”

June 23, 2019

Medium: Light installation using Dedolight PB70, Rosco hazersDimensions: N/A, filled to fit the venueLocation: LA Plaza Village Apartments in Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA.Commissioned by: Dopium LA - RE:PURPOSE in conjunction with the LA Design Festival.Description: A volumetric beam of light symbolizing the yellow signal in traffic, meaning “proceed with caution”, yet also suggesting a potential future climate where artificial suns are necessary, should this warning not be heeded.The brief of [RE:PURPOSE] centered around the wordplay of "in regards to purpose," in its multiple interpretations. Whether it be examining our personal narratives as artists, questioning the intention behind the materials we chose to give them form, or the sustainability and future lives of those materials in the context of our climate.My chosen medium in all of my installations have been film lights, selected and repurposed from the same sets I learned to use them on, from my background in production. The film lights are also repurposed in the sense that they are rented and returned to equipment rental houses, to be reused on a different production every day. Lastly, the film lights are also repurposed in their role, from an object that shapes the art end product (he image), to becoming the subject of the art itself.Special thanks to Kevin Burnstein, Richard Tranley and William Hu.

August 30 - September 2, 2018

Medium: Light installation, velour on 12’ x 12’ truss w/ Joleko, using 1 K5600 Joleko 1600, Rosco fog machineDimensions: 12’ x 12’ x 1’Location: Santa Anita Racetrack, ArcadiaCommissioned by: 626 Night Market Summer Art ProgrammingDescription: Freestanding Chinese moon gate, representing the corridor traversed between Taiwan & the 626 of LA. The moon gate, a circle rising up out of the earth, is a traditional Chinese landscape element that serves as a portal between connected spaces. By stepping over the threshold, travelers symbolically transit the barrier separating one world from the next. The complete circle celebrates the family unit, the generational cycle of time, and a conduit for reunion.Special thanks to Brian Wong, Kevin Burnstein, Loan Hoang, Debbie Jong.

June 9, 2018

Medium: Site-specific light installation using 3 K5600 Joleko 1600s, PowerfoggersDimensions: 40’ x 30’ x 12’Location: Architecture + Design Museum, Los AngelesCommissioned by: Dopium LA - [D/MENS/ONS] in conjunction with the LA Design Festival.Description: Collaboration of Dyan Jong and Eva Kang in response to the prompt, “Why do you create?” A portal of light was created out of 3 planes of light, suggesting a path to an elevated plane.

NOVEMBER 04, 2017

Medium: Site-specific light installation using 2 K5600 Jokerbug 1600, PowerfoggersDimensions: 35' x 36' x 7'Commissioned by: Dopium LALocation: Chinatown Mandarin Plaza, Los AngelesDescription: 8000 beams of light, each representing one hundred of the estimated 800,000 Dreamers enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program as of 2017.