Waiting Room

The following description is paraphrased from the HOT•BED Gallery webpage which can be found here.

Waiting Room was a six-person show, featuring works by Aidan Fowler, Alyson Denny, Lyn Godley, Jessica Judith Beckwith, Philip Hart, Yael Erel along with the winners of the 2022 Immersive Arts for Health Global Student Design Competition.

Work by these six artists who use light, shadow, and movement to create experiences that will mesmerize, enchant, and captivate. Also included was the work of the winning entries of the 2022 Immersive Arts for Health Student Design Competition organized by the Jefferson Center of Immersive Arts for Health, a design, research, and academic initiative dedicated to studying the impact of dynamic and interactive art + design on healing.

Each art installation was set up as a “waiting room” for the audience to spend time becoming immersed in the experience, with the intention of calming, inspiring, or transforming.

As part of ongoing research viewers were able to take part in a survey to collect feedback on their individual experiences of the various installations.

Project Team: 

Light Pebbles and installation design by Yael Erel 

Curators:Lyn Godly

Light design: Yael Erel and Avner BenNatan 

Lightexture Iris Desk Lamp by Avner BenNatan and Yael Erel

RPI Research Students: Cooper Myer, Eileen Dong, Gunnar Thuss, Owen Lawler

Photography:Yael Erel and Avner BenNatan

Technical Support: RPI Fabrication Labs, John Cade, Bill Bergman and Jim Van Duyne

Funding:The Jefferson Center of Immersive Arts for Health and additional contributions from Lightexture