Marlene Krueger

About Marlene Krueger

Marlene Krueger, who did a prototype with light prototype, shares and work with Professor Don Seiden in a class setting one of her ideas on how others can benefit with light. How by working with others and sharing the knowledge of light and it's therapeutic effects on people's well being will make life much tolerable.
Professor Don Seiden evaluating Marlene Krueger on how she would work with the greater population with her light devices and how her work will have a positive impact on people’s well being.

Marlene Krueger has a deep professional history as a master art educator—having taught at institutions like Senn Academy in Chicago and later working with the Monterey County Office of Education—where she used her light art background to bridge the gap between art and science. 

She single-handedly developed specialized presentations for high school teachers to guide students in actualizing electronic and technological art forms. Her curriculum focuses on building kinetic light pieces from raw materials, demonstrating how basic physics tools—like light refraction through prisms and polarizing filters—can be harnessed to form evolving, glowing installations. Her goal with these innovations is to inspire youth to remember their “birth-right abilities” to invent, construct, and see beyond traditional flat canvases. 

Marlene Krueger intersects her physical light art concepts with her coastal landscape paintings and her multimedia/video production work at TechMedia by focusing on capturing and manipulating time, movement, and changing luminescence. 

Rather than viewing these mediums as completely separate, she treats video, paint, and kinetic engineering as different tools to achieve the same goal: translating the fluid, mesmerizing shifts of the Monterey coast into a visual format. 

Carmel State Beach welcomes dogs here. But there are still rules. I love it here, I usually do outdoor painting here. Photo by Marlene Krueger
A natural illumination of a winter sunset at Carmel State Beach.
Marlene Krueger is an innovative contemporary artist whose practice sits at the intersection of electronic engineering, kinetic art, and visual illumination. Bridging the gap between fine art and technical invention, her celebrated experiments with polarized light mechanisms, motorized prisms, and kinetic displays have challenged traditional sensory boundaries. With deep ties to the Chicago art ecosystem, Krueger’s pioneering spirit transforms complex science into interactive visual poetry.
Aquarium with silhouette of three people staring at a sea turtle, and a school of sardines.
An Environment such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium admits natural light providing access to nature.

Marlene Krueger Bridges Science, Nature, and Art

Marlene is an artist and educator celebrated for pioneering kinetic light art and technological inventions, notably during her tenure teaching in the Chicago area. She creates interactive, electronic works that use motors, prisms and polarization, used in photography.

Summary of Works & Innovations

  • Kinetic Light Art: Krueger is recognized for inventing and constructing electronic devices from scratch, using prisms, and specialized motors to create dynamic, moving displays of illumination.
  • Art Education Innovations: While teaching art (including her well-documented time at Senn Academy in Chicago), she designed and produced these kinetic pieces to motivate high-risk and distracted students.
  • E.A.T. Preservation: Her work is closely tied to the ethos of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), combining science, engineering, and visual expression to inspire students.

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Light fill the sky over Point Lobos, Monterey County. We see the effects of light at sunset as the sky changes to red. Marlene studies the effects through the camera lens.
Marlene studies the Effects of Light for a New Prototype.

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