Planet LED: Teddy Lo at TEDxAmericanInternationalSchoolHK

Teddy Lo brings us a personal view of his new book to be launched in October called "Planet LED". LED can take many forms - from a simple on/ off indicator to a light source used by doctor's during surgery; to a street lamp lighting your way home or a pixel in a media wall. PLANET LED documents how the world has accepted this technology, in all its forms, from infancy to being a major player in just a few years. His talk filled with examples demonstrate this fact and displays both artistic concepts as well as design solutions, taking us in a new direction towards a more visually compelling and intuitive reality.

About the Speaker:
Teddy Lo is a Hong Kong-based LED artist known for his work in the "tech-art" scene. He has held exhibitions in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Teddy studied advertising design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, where he began exploring the use of light-emitting diodes in art; he relocated to New York City after his graduation in 2002. He began his career in the advertising industry, and at the same time pursued art using LED as his medium. In 2003, He held his first solo art exhibition, Morphology, in New York City. He was named in Lighting magazine's "Who's Who of Lighting 2004" for his contribution to the lighting industry. Since then, he has held solo exhibitions in various locations, including Russell Simmons' Art for Life in NYC, Luminale in Frankfurt, the 2006 National Day Singapore Expo at The Esplanade and Microwave's "A-Glow-Glow" outdoor Media Art Exhibition at Hong Kong's Museum of Art, Miami Art Basel and Burning Man Festival in Nevada. As of 2010, Teddy received a master's degree in Lighting offered by the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. In addition to continuing his artistic pursuits, Teddy is the founder and Chief Vision Officer of LEDARTIST, a LED experience design company based in Hong Kong, New York and Shanghai.

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