Chad Mount

FP / OKC / 2026

Frequency & Perspective

2026site-specific, multi-room installationprojection mapping, laser light, sound, sensors, generative visuals, AIOklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City

Frequency & Perspective is an immersive exhibition shaped by light, sound, space, and the act of looking. Across much of the exhibition, the exchange happens through perception. Light, color, rhythm, and the intentions embedded in each work meet the viewer’s own attention, memory, and nervous system. Forms emerge, recede, fold, and return as the eye adjusts. In Portal Field, this exchange becomes directly interactive. Sensors allow the generative field to respond to the presence and movement of visitors.

The exhibition began with photographs I made inside the gallery using carefully staged two-point and three-point lighting and specific fields of color. These photographs became the source material for Lumaform and Lumaform II, grounding the generative process in the gallery’s own architecture. As the work developed, I began adding hand-drawn geometry to guide the transitional flow of light and form within the digital video pieces. Photography anchors the work to a physical place. My hand-drawn sacred geometry guides the movement, carrying my intention into each transition. I then worked with generative AI systems to explore how these source images could bend, fold, and reorganize before bringing them back into the gallery through projection.

Lumaform led to Lumaform II, and what I discovered through that process eventually led me to Portal Field. The color, movement, and shifting forms continue, but in Portal Field they begin responding to the people moving through the space. The building’s title, Folding Light, also became part of the process itself. I used the idea of folding light to shape and sculpt the forms as they moved from photography into the digital works.

Prana-Luma connects these visual shifts to sound. Its rising and falling tones directly translate changes in the ambient light into shifts in pitch, heightening awareness of the exhibition’s transitions—particularly around Lumaform, positioned opposite it. Together, light and sound form a shared field that quietly shifts perception, drawing attention to the shadows, reflections, and forms moving through the gallery.

Exhibition information ↗
Two visitors move through a blue-lit gallery while viewing Lumaform.
Lumaform Photo: Blake Studdard
A visitor stands before the two projected image fields of Lumaform.
Lumaform Photo: Blake Studdard
Visitors photograph the luminous pink projection of Lumaform II.
Lumaform II Photo: Sheldon Edmond
A visitor is silhouetted before the vivid geometric projection of Lumaform II.
Lumaform II Photo: Sheldon Edmond
Portal Field casts blue and magenta geometric light beside the wall text, ‘A playful invitation to notice differently.’
Portal Field Photo: Blake Studdard
An adult and child stand before the responsive projected light and color of Portal Field.
Portal Field Photo: Sheldon Edmond
Violet and red laser light traces the peaked architecture of Traces of Living Light.
Traces of Living Light Photo: Chad Mount
Magenta laser light illuminates the wall text, ‘Light draws the architecture into motion.’
Traces of Living Light Photo: Blake Studdard
Prana-Luma projects text across a blue-lit gallery wall beside a sound cabinet.
Prana-Luma Photo: Chad Mount

Beyond the gallery

Continue the field.

The companion app puts a few of the exhibition’s ideas directly in your hands—tools to explore light, color, frequency, sound, and attention wherever you are.

Map a Surface
Trace a surface with your phone, connect a projector, and experiment with projection mapping.
Observe Light
Explore how color, wavelength, and frequency relate within the visible spectrum.
Light Drift
Enter a meditation of generative color and layered sound.
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Studio notes