Golden Hour is a light installation that attempts to artificially recreate the sunset and extend its lighting quality ad infinitum. The installation appropriates real-time live video from 24 webcams placed in different locations around the world. The color information coming from the video of the webcams is mapped into a grid of color lights in the gallery. In photography, the last hour of sunlight of each day is known as the “golden hour” because the quality of the light reaches its most dramatic tones. Golden Hour utilizes a system that translates one medium into another -i.e.: analog video > digital computing > physical light, as an attempt to question the dichotomist distinctions of natural/artificial, abstraction/representation, and illusion/truth.
The installation utilizes 24 cameras located around the world. Each webcam is used only for the duration of the golden hour: the last hour of sunset. When the golden hour is over in one location, the system moves to the next location where a new golden hour is beginning. Every hour, a custom software downloads the images from the webcams and extracts the color information of each pixel (red, green and blue values). This information is then sent to an array of RGB LEDs that reproduces in the exhibition space the sunset color of each location.

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La hora dorada es una instalación lumínica que recrea el atardecer y extiende su duración infinitamente. La instalación utiliza video en tiempo real proveniente de 24 webcams ubicadas en diferentes lugares alrededor del mundo. La información del color proveniente del video de las webcams es mapeado en luces instaladas en la galería. En fotografía y cine, la última hora de luz del día es conocida como "la hora dorada" porque la luz alcanza sus tonos más intensos. La instalación utiliza un sistema que traduce el video analógico en información digital y luego en luz cuestionando aparente dicotomías como lo natural/artificial, abstracción/representación y verdad/ilusión.