# László Moholy-Nagy **Born:** July 20, 1895 **Died:** November 24, 1946 **Domain:** Art / Photography / Kinetic Media / Design Education **Doc Type:** Person Node **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Bauhaus]], [[Visual Grammar]], [[Light-Space Modulator]], [[Machine Mediation]] --- ## Definition **László Moholy-Nagy** was a Hungarian artist, photographer, designer and educator whose Bauhaus work investigated light, motion, photography, typography, material and mechanical mediation. He taught at the school from 1923 to 1928 and later carried its experimental pedagogy into the New Bauhaus in Chicago. His _[[Light-Space Modulator]]_ used motorized metal, glass, plastic, illumination and projection to generate changing spatial patterns. The work makes mediation visible: apparatus, movement, reflection and shadow jointly produce the perceptual event. ## Corpus Function Moholy-Nagy belongs at the intersection of [[Visual Grammar]], [[Machine Mediation]], [[Co-Creative Substrate]] and [[Perceptual Sovereignty]]. His work shows that technical apparatus does not merely deliver an image; it participates in forming what can appear. ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] - [Bauhaus-Archiv — Light Prop for an Electric Stage](https://www.bauhaus.de/en/programm/sammlung/80_skulptur/361)