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Lumia Kinetic Art with Music: My Theatre of Light

The artist, W. Christian Sidenius, discusses the origin of his interest in Kinetic Art utilizing electric light of the type called Lumia by Thomas Wilfred. After a period of working to develop the means of producing kinetic images on a translucent screen, he decided, in 1960, to invite the public to performances in his home of Lumia productions accompanied by music. The favorable response he received to the performances led him to construct his Theatre of Light in 1962. He describes the technical aspects of the theatre and the audience reactions to the performances he has presented. He concludes by mentioning Wilfred’s decision to opt for Lumia art presentations without the accompaniment of music and of sounds and his disagreement with Wilfred’s decision, pointing out the possibility that the Bauhaus group in Germany, if it had not been dispersed by the Nazis in the 1930s, might have established a permanent theatre of light of the type he has developed.