Zeitgeist Shop
I make music-responsive art pieces using acrylic and LEDs as a medium. Alan Barker is founder and artist behind Zeitgeist.
For the past decade I have been pursuing studies in Neuroscience as a means to understand consciousness and the world in which we exist. My background in science and thorough thoughtful procedure ultimately culminated in this unlikely marriage of technology and art that I use to create beautiful color-changing and environmentally-responsive displays of light. My wife Megan and I both grew up in De
Huge thanks to everyone who came out to see us at the Bloomington Handmade Market yesterday! We got to meet a lot of cool people and made some great sales. Happy early start to the holidays!
Did this one tonight, and I am definitely going to explore this concept further. :-)
Wireless LED accent pieces made from recovered solid oak and up-cycled glass holders. Three different animations to choose from, and the interior rechargeable battery runs for hours, or it can be powered from the wall.
Lantern with colored solid oak construction.
Light Painting
12x12" screen with a dozen different color and animation modes. K***s on the bottom let you control speed and scale on the fly.
Animated light painting. It has a dozen different color modes and animations patterns with the ability for you to control the scale and speed on the fly. Screen area measures 12 x 12 inches.
Timeline Photos
Zeitgeist Shop is now an official vendor at Bloomington Handmade Market coming up on November 14th!
Rice paper lamp conversion
Coming soon - LEDs and leather! Rechargeable, multi-mode bracelets that give hours of play.
Try this one on for size, compact color-changing leather bracelets!
My very first forays into the world of leather.
Magic Lanter - Prism Setting
I created this video with the YouTube Video Editor (https://www.youtube.com/editor)
Magic Lantern - Gradient
Demonstration of Gradient setting for Magic Lanterns.
Magic Lantern - Spinning
Demonstration of spinning effect in magic lanterns.
Taking it to the next level in two ways literally! Made from solid walnut, these lanterns have LEDs on top and bottom with invisible wiring in between for a super-clean see-through design. But they are also a WIRELESS SET! These lanterns are wirelessly synched to one another, so when settings on the master are changed, the other follows suit with plenty of range to talk regardless of how many rooms away they are. As always, they are also battery-enabled.
Spiderweb Lantern!
Honeycomb Lantern
And now a video accompaniment. :-)
Honeycombs like you've never seen them before!
These Honeycomb Lanterns turned out cooler than I ever could have imagined. I kicked the idea around in my head for around a month before I finally instantiated it. I'm definitely pleased with the results!
The Lanterns have been upgraded to allow vertical lighting, which affords much more interesting animations. The camera doesn't look quite like the eye, but it conveys the point.
Here I present several more variations on the Lantern theme I've been working on. A special thanks goes to Kurt Larsen for his assistance in the project.
Tower Lanterns! Simple and beautiful with a wide range of functions. The standard size towers are just a little over a foot tall, and about 7 inches wide at the base. These will start at $60, and are available for sale. All towers come with a powerful Lithium cell inside and are equipped with a charger, so you can use wall-power or battery interchangeably for operation.
Newest product innovation: Mason jars with the power of lithium and LEDs! Each jar is multi-mode and will give 8 hours of play-time between charges with our supplied power supply. They can also be charged from android or USB! Great for accent-lighting, night-lighting, outdoor-lighting, tent-lighting, digital luminaries, or general coolness.
Freshly stocked at Geometric Visions! These are non-illuminated art pieces for the wall. Each measures somewhere in the neighborhood of 11 inches tall by 16 inches wide.
Wooden Ornaments. The round one is about 6 inches wide, and the square is about 4.
Getting geared up for Hyperion! Just the beginning, much more to come! 8-)
Floating Cube
The title says it all. :-)
Floating cube in-a-cube. :-D The floating cube is perpetually-moving in random magnet-driven patterns.
Phi Pyramid LED
18 inch tall pyramid that is 11.1 inches at base with acid melt color patterns perpetually flowing over the whole surface. Interactive with user controls to ...
Multi-modal interactive light display
Just finished this new hand-painted piece. And like most of my stuff, it dances to tunes. :-)
Zeitgeist - LED Tower 2
Different animation sequence on the bulbs.
HDV 0595
LED Tower - I got bored last night at home; here's what happened. :-)
July 11, 2015 - Piece in development
Testing out some code and wanted to give a preview of things to come. :-)
This is a beautiful perpetually-shifting piece allowing the simultaneous interaction of many colors. It is music responsive, using original algorithms. And this pattern lends itself strongly to a pronounced breathing effect as a result of the changing color patterns.