Yvette Mattern (born San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a New York and Berlin based visual artist whose work has an emphasis on video and film, which frequently intersects performance, public art and sculpture. Her work has been exhibited internationally. [1]
Mattern studied and has a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbia University. [2]
Her ongoing monumental laser light installation Global Rainbow has been presented over ten times since 2009 including: launching the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad in the Northeast, [3] Northwest England and Northern Ireland, [4] [5] Transmediale 2010 in Berlin, Germany, [6] Nantes, Metz and Toulouse France, New York City with Art Production Fund, [2] New Haven, CT and a special presentation in Pittsburgh with Lightwave International. [7] It 2012 it was projected above Manhattan skies as "an uplifiting light on those destroyed by the terror and darkness cast by Superstorm Sandy." [8] It was also featured in Toronto, Ontario for Nuit Blanche in 2014.
The Global Rainbow installation beams seven rays of high specification laser light, representing the spectrum of the seven colors of the rainbow. The artist had been inspired by seeing an unusual rainbow in a beautiful spot at ‘Walden Pond’ in Massachusetts. Mattern aims to connect all demographics in a beautifully engaging experience. She sees her work as a visual translation of hope and peace.
Yvette Mattern is married to Georg Polke, son of German Painter Sigmar Polke (2014–present). Yvette Mattern has one son, Maximilian Mattern-Knuesel and three step-children with Georg Polke. She lives between Berlin, Germany and the United States.
Transmediale, stylised as transmediale, is an annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, usually held over five days at the end of January and the beginning of February. Transmediale takes the form of a conference, an exhibition, and a film and video program that often contain or support performances and workshops. Throughout the year, transmediale is also involved in a number of long- and short-term cooperative projects via transmediale/resource. From its initial focus on video culture, it came to cultivate an artistic and critical dialogue with television and multimedia, emerging as the leading international platform for media art.
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer.
Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 18 September that year, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire. Also known locally as The Lights or The Illuminations, they run each year for 66 days, from late August until early November at a time when most other English seaside resorts' seasons are coming to an end. They are 6.2 miles (10 km) long and use over one million bulbs. The display stretches along the Promenade from Starr Gate at the south end of the town to Bispham in the north. Since 2020 the illuminations season has been extended to run until after the Christmas and New Year celebrations. The most recent season ran from 1 September 2023 until 7 January 2024, the upcoming 2024–25 season switch-on has been confirmed for 30 August 2024.
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