# Light-Space Modulator **Artist:** [[László Moholy-Nagy]] **Developed:** 1922–1930 **Domain:** Kinetic Art / Light / Machine Mediation **Doc Type:** Artwork and Apparatus Node **Maturity:** Developed **Related:** [[Bauhaus]], [[Visual Grammar]], [[Machine Mediation]], [[Co-Creative Substrate]] --- ## Definition The **Light-Space Modulator**, originally described as a light prop for an electric stage, is [[László Moholy-Nagy|László Moholy-Nagy’s]] motorized construction of metal, glass and plastic elements. Rotation and illumination produce changing reflections, transparencies, movements and shadows in the surrounding space. ## Corpus Function The apparatus is an early and unusually legible [[Machine Mediation|machine-mediated]] environment. Light, motor, object, room and observer co-produce the event. [[articles/Bauhaus Architects of AI|Bauhaus Architects of AI]] uses it as an analogue for generative procedure; the bounded claim is that the work operationalizes variable perceptual output, not that it is a digital algorithm. ## Sources / Provenance - [Bauhaus-Archiv — Light Prop for an Electric Stage](https://www.bauhaus.de/en/programm/sammlung/80_skulptur/361)