Room 01 · Sample work
Polar
Drift
A slow curtain of particles shaped by public aurora forecasts. Visitors steer the wind with their hands and leave a wake that fades over ninety seconds.
Polar Drift field study 04
Generative Artist
LIGHT IS THE ONLY MATERIAL
Sunniva Aas
visual storyteller · Lisbon
Sunniva Aas builds living light fields with code, weather data, and a lot of patience. The work sits between a painting and a system that never quite repeats itself.
Press and hold the sky to gather the light. Let go to release it.Hold a finger on the sky, then let go.
Polar
Room 02 · Sample work
Night
Choir
Fifty soft lights breathe with a live microphone feed. When the room goes quiet the field folds into itself and waits. It is very patient.
Night Choir listening room
Room 03 · Sample work
Ion
Bloom
A garden of charged ribbons that open toward motion. Built as a gift for a friend who collects rare minerals and sends photos of the sky.
Ion Bloom charged garden
Room 04 · Sample work
Curtain
Call
The closing piece of the series. A single ribbon splits into hundreds, then finds its way back together before the lights come up.
Curtain Call finale study
How the
field gets
made
Every piece starts as a question about light. Then comes a rough system, a week of stubborn tuning, and finally a version that feels alive without shouting.
01
Gather
Field recordings, sky notes, color swatches on the wall. The raw material is rarely pixels. Usually it is a mood and a constraint.
02
Build the weather
Noise fields, particle rules, a handful of uniforms. Small systems that can surprise me later without falling apart.
03
Let it sit
The piece runs on a spare monitor for days. If it still feels good while I make coffee, it ships. If not, back to the weather.
Sunniva Aas
Sunniva Aas builds living light fields with code, weather data, and a lot of patience. The work sits between a painting and a system that never quite repeats itself.
Lisbon
light chaser
@studio.nova
2026
The field
in numbers
- Particles in a room piece
- 40000
- Days a piece runs before it ships
- 7
- Frames it never repeats
- ∞
Sample figures for this demo.
"People stayed in the room long after the talk ended. Nobody wanted to be the first to leave the light."
Questions
What can I commission?
Room installations, projection pieces, screen works for lobbies and small editions for the home. Each one is tuned to its space.
Do the pieces need special hardware?
Most run in a modern browser on a small computer. Large rooms use projectors, planned together with your venue.
How long does a commission take?
Usually six to ten weeks, including a week where the piece runs quietly before it ships.
Can a piece react to our data?
Yes. Weather, sound, footfall or your own dataset can drive the field. We agree the inputs in the first call.
Make a
new sky
together
Commissions, exhibitions, and the occasional strange experiment. If you have a room, a story, or a dataset that wants to breathe, write.
visual storyteller · Lisbon