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Contemporary artists play freely with materials and forms. They construct laboratories of perception, focusing on human perception and the ability to manipulate and condition it. The artists work with a direct reference to the modern environment and use its artifacts such as strobe lights, auto taillights and spot lights. Many contemporary works display their technical construction: Jason Rhoades, Yoshiaki Kaihatsu. Carsten Höller, and Olafur Eliasson, for example, create light spaces situated between sensual experience and scientific experiment. Mike Kelley's "Light (Time) – Space Modulator" (2003) is a direct reference to Moholy-Nagy. The spatial and temporal structures are deconstructed by means of projection. John M Armleder overwhelmingly floods viewers with optical stimuli while Björn Dahlem in "Schwarzes Loch" [Black Hole] (1998) depicts the black matter that draws everything – and ultimately light – into its center of energy. Three works offer an indication of the future of light techniques at the interface of art and cutting-edge technologies: "Laserfilm" (2000) by Thomas Beth, Michael Schmid and Jörn Müller-Quade and "Bergers Xenon X-treme" (2005), a cooperation between Thomas Berger and the University of Karlsruhe's Light Technology Institute, as well as Tim Otto Roth's "Videochipphotogramm" (2000/2005).