Be a part of the interactive art lighting the Olympic skies

[Ivan Seeking]

Vectorial Elevation is an interactive artwork that allows participants to transform the sky over Vancouver, Canada. Using a three-dimensional interface, this website let's you design huge light sculptures by directing 20 robotic searchlights located around English Bay. A web page is made for each participant with photos of their design from four cameras located around the city.

http://www.vectorialvancouver.net/home.html

Ou, en français
http://www.vectorialvancouver.net/home_fr.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Already in the Global Spotlight, Vancouver's Skies Deliver Additional Delight
Posted by Lauren Knapp , February 17, 2010
A week before the torch arrived in the Olympic city, Vancouver's skies were already illuminated, ready to greet the world with a warm welcome. Light artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and his team had installed 10 searchlights on both sides of English Bay for an interactive work he calls "Vectorial Elevation."

The lights in this large-scale installation are visible within a 10-mile radius -- each light shines at 10,000 watts -- and anyone with access to the Internet can try his or her hand at changing the projected patterns.

Participants can create a light display on the project's Web site, VectorialVancouver.net, where they will also find a virtual model of Vancouver. Users create instructions for a new night-time display by setting the angles and power of the searchlights. The information is then queued in a server that operates the robotically maneuvered lights. The searchlights quietly project a new image every 12 seconds. For those who can't see it in person, the entire show is captured live via four Web cameras set up around Vancouver... [continued with video]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2010/02/already-in-the-global-spotlight-vancouvers-skies-deliver-additional-delight.html

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Wow, not one comment? I thought this was pretty cool.

 

[Evo]

Rather disappointing, the "designs' look great, the real pictures look nothing like the designs in most cases.

Not to mention how much energy that must be wasting.

 

[zomgwtf]

I thought that this was a pretty cool idea actually. Never saw it before thanks Ivan.

I for one don't really care at all how much energy they are wasting.

 

[GeorginaS]

They weren't doing anything with that energy anyway, Evo.

We each submitted designs while at work. Yes, we goof off at work from time-to-time.

 

[MotoH]

Oh boo I thought you could draw shapes!

I guess I will just do dirty words in morse code.

 

[hypatia]

I thought it was fun.