Sejak penemuan pertama lampu pijar, manusia semakin terbiasa hidup di bawah gemerlap cahaya artifisial yang berlebihan setiap malam. Penggunaan cahaya artifisial yang tidak tepat menyebabkan polusi cahaya yang kini dialami oleh lebih dari 80% populas dunia di kota-kota padat penduduk, termasuk Kota Bandung. Data dari penelitian terbaru menunjukkan bahwa luas polusi cahaya kategori tinggi di Bandung mengalami peningkatan di tahun 2013-2017 sebesar 13,79 km2/tahun. Sebagai imbasnya, estetika alami langit malam di Kota Bandung tak lagi bisa dinikmati lantaran cahaya objek astronomi, termasuk galaksi Bima Sakti, terhalangi oleh kubah skyglow akibat cahaya polutan yang naik ke angkasa. . Sebagai pribadi yang memiliki ketertarikan khusus terhadap dunia astronomi, penulis yang juga merupakan warga asli kota Bandung memiliki keprihatinan tersendiri terhadap ‘hilangnya’ pesona langit malam Bandung akibat polusi cahaya. Keinginan untuk meningkatkan kesadaran terhadap isu ini dituangkan penulis melalui karya instalasi yang mengeksplorasi medium lampu, cat reflektif, dan video.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi teknik penciptaan karya melalui pengolahan komposit sabut kelapa sebagai medium seni dan kerajinan tangan. Topik penelitian difokuskan pada teknik outer casting composite, teknik pengolahan sabut kelapa menggunakan keterampilan tangan yang merupakan hasil eksplorasi dan dipraktikkan oleh penulis untuk membuat objek tiga dimensi berbahan dasar komposit sabut kelapa, harapannya teknik ini dapat diaplikasikan dan dikembangkan lebih lanjut sebagai medium seni dan kerajinan tangan di tengah kebutuhan untuk material alami yang murah, dapat didaur ulang dan bersifat non-toxic. Teknik ini menggabungkan teknik dempul yang umumnya digunakan di medium kayu dan teknik dasar pengolahan kertas pada papier mache, yang diaplikasikan pada medium komposit sabut kelapa. Penelitian menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dan practice led research, dengan bentuk riset yang mendokumentasikan dan memaparkan data proses aktivitas kreatif seperti eksplorasi medium, teknik serta teori dan kontekstualisasinya. Teknik outer casting composite ini nanti meliputi beberapa tahapan, mulai dari persiapan material, pembuatan adonan komposit, penempelan adonan, dempul dan terakhir coating atau finishing material komposit. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah inovasi teknik kerajinan tangan dengan menggunakan material komposit sabut kelapa yang diaplikasikan pada pembuatan kap lampu dengan penyajian data berupa proses dokumentasi karya.

Interior design is a process of conditioning a specific atmosphere, which relates to the concept of 'staging space.' As interior design is inherently designed to create an illusory world, the 'illusive, simulative' space can be used interchangeably with the real-imagined space of interior design and cinema. This article will examine three horror films to focus on how interior mise-en-scene is used to create a horror atmosphere. The films A Mother's Love, Tatami, and POB embodied semantic meanings into their spatial settings, serving as a projection of the characters; psyche, and story plots. A rhetorical visual method is used to interpret the relationship between spatial language, camera angle, character, and story plot. The research discovers that spatial language is an instrument of terror, as repeated patterns of liminal space, backlighting lights, and dream scene metaphors enhance the properties and camera angles to elicit an emotion of horror.

For all his life Johannes Kepler seeking for harmony. Kepler is best known for his laws of planetary movement. He is also a polymath working in the intersection between contemporary sciences such as astronomy, math, physics, optics, astrology, music theory, meteorology dan history. After spending years exploring those different disciplines, he later learned he was actually longing for the harmony. His fascination over harmony in nature kept growing up, in his last days Kepler was still trying to finish a book he started since he was still a scholar. This book is called Somnium. Somnium itself is the Latin word for 'dream,' a word that make sense if you read the whole chapter. The main idea for this project is Kepler’s fascination over the harmony in celestial object, thus he tried to convince people that Copernicus heliocentrism is the absolute truest way to understand how our solar system works. The idea of making narative came up to Kepler’s mind as he turned his research into a fiction, a story about a boy who makes his journey to the moon to help his mother for being accused of being a witch. Similiarly to the boy, Kepler’s mother is also accused for witchcraft. So Somnium was not really just a scientific book but in some part of them, there is also some biographical facts and fiction. By knowing the pattern in nature we can understand that the nature is in order and there is a grand design hidden in layers. Just like Kepler that are fascinated by the order of nature, 'Somnium' in this work is also talks about the pattern and harmony the curiousity for nature that represented in geometrical objet and natural study, and also about the old knowledge where science, art and spirituality is learnt through one form knowledge

Indonesia is a tropical country that has an abundance of flora. Tamarind or Tamarindus indica is one of the most famous trees and fruit in Indonesia. Now, these plant wastes are starting to be processed to be taken by the artisans to be made into powder or powdered tamarind seeds (Gutta Tamarind). Gutta tamarind becomes a substitute for wax or clay used in the batik process. Gutta tamarind is often referred to as cold batik because it does not use a heater like a process commonly found when using clay or better known as batik gutta tamarind. Gutta Tamarind’s exploration as a technique in painting aims to make technical innovations and this tamarind gutta can be used as an aesthetic element in a painting. The research method will be carried out by developing techniques in painting through an exploration of the gutta tamarind medium as a color barrier and showing various artistic breakthroughs generated by the variety of research and exploration of its constituent materials into paintings as a substitute medium for brush strokes. It is hoped that the results of this study will add insight into the use of environmentally friendly plant waste and produce paintings with aesthetic elements and new artistic breakthroughs.