Yi-Tai Chung
Lighting Designer — VISUALIZING INVISIBLE CITIES
Yi-Tai Chung is an artist working with light. His recent lighting designs include Twelfth Night, Lost Girl (Texas Theatre and Dance), Momentum (Dance Repertory Theatre), Mr. Burns, and Eurydice (Ole Miss Theatre). His lighting design for the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites was selected for the World Stage Design 2017 Exhibition. During PQ 2019, he is excited to share the design method of Cities at the talk Regenerating Meaning: Design Approaches and Storytelling. He currently serves as the Assistant Professor of Lighting at the University of Mississippi.
Yi-Tai is originally from Taipei, Taiwan, recently received his MFA in Lighting Design from University of Texas at Austin (UTA), and currently is based in Oxford, MS.
VISUALIZING INVISIBLE CITIES is a self-created thesis project for UTA which was presented in January 2017.
Inspired by Italo Calvino’s novel Invisible Cities, this installation piece investigates how the content of stories translates into different art forms, including writing, photography, installation, and lighting design. The installation transforms the thematic idea of duality by exploring reflectivity and materiality in a designed installation space. Light source plays as the key catalyst to explore possibilities of the reflective objects, such as Mylar, mirrors, and glasses. The reflected lighting patterns act as the main visual component.
