Lights ON!
Paper has been busy lately, and as you have noticed no posting for quite awhile. Anyways today postings is about something mundane, something that peak my interest.
The projected image changed the face of human entertainment, with moving pictures fooling our brains and transporting us to other worlds. As technologies have evolved, so have the artistic ambitious around them, and while we generally think of technology as trending towards reductions in size, these mapping examples show us how to live large. Here are some creative building projections to get you thinking big.
The Image Mill
The joy of the building-sized projection is the massiveness of it all, and nothing’s more massive than Robert Lepage’s image mill, showing this summer in Quebec City. Commemorating and portraying Quebec’s 400 year history, the video occupies a surface about 100 ft X 2 000 ft, roughly equivalent to 25 IMAX screens.
Lepage is a well known artist with a great sense for how to incorporate technology into his projects, and he’s managed to produce a masterpiece of sight and sound with the collaboration of Ex Machina over two years of production at a cost of about $4 million.
If you can’t make it up to Quebec City this summer, the video can be watched in the comforts of your own home, using 6 screens to both maintain the spirit of grandeur and to maintain the video’s otherwise disproportionately wide shape.
AntiVJ
VJ Crustea is a French dude living in the UK who specializes in fusing electronic music with synchronized visuals. The following is a modest but still very cool building projection from 2006, picking up on the wall’s existing architectural elements as with KubiK, but more piece-by-piece.
He later put his skills into a project called lightup Bristol started in 2007, creating a much bigger presentation, not competing with the Image Mill in size, but definitely fun for many of the same reasons.
Luminous
Check out the projection realized by THe Electric Canvas on the Sydney Opera House in May and June of this year. This building projection’s claim to fame is the 21 days of non-repeating artwork alongside a fantastic festival.
It was the visual backdrop for a spectacle of light and music curated by none other than the legendary Brian Eno, ambient music pioneer and producer for bands like U2 and Coldplay. The audio-visual display is called 77 Million Paintings..
A Symphony of Lights
is a synchronised building exterior decorative light and laser multimedia display, featuring 44 buildings on both sides of the Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong accompanied by music. The technology was developed by Australian firm Laservision and cost approximately HK$44 million. It has attracted over 4 million visitors and locals so far.
Guinness World Records has named A Symphony of Lights the world’s largest permanent light and sound show
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