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Narokan

An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
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Narokan

Tom Lloyd
Narokan, 1965
Aluminum, light bulbs, and plastic laminate
11 1/2 × 18 1/2 × 5 in. 
Studio Museum in Harlem; gift of Mr. and Mrs. Darwin K. Davidson
1988.3

Lloyd’s partnership with RCA engineer Alan Sussman began by 1965, some time after the pair met at the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit in Manhattan. Their groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary collaboration helped gain the artist near immediate recognition for his electronic sculptures. The same year Narokan was created, Lloyd’s works appeared in multiple exhibitions, a testament to burgeoning interest in technology-based works as a result of rapid advancements in science during the 1960s, including the first successful human spaceflight and inventions such as the cordless telephone and Liquid Crystal Display (LCD).

An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.
An electronically powered light sculpture with different color lightbulbs lighting up in different sequences.