On the evening of December 3, Vientiane city’s love for Vientiane · the echo of the heart, the new media art lighting Festival officially opened in Vientiane square. This lighting Festival presented six immersive new media lighting devices, including Chengdu heartbeat, light bamboo, sunset, LongQin time wishing tree and light fog. It made use of the new media art landscape to create a mobile audio-visual feast of light and shadow and build an urban public art space.
Streamer flashing immersive light and shadow art space
On the night of the opening ceremony, the specially prepared modern art opening dance “looking for bamboo” opened. Then, Ms. Pang MINXIU, assistant general manager of China Resources Vientiane life West China region and general manager of Chengdu Vientiane City, Ms. Monica, regional manager of LongQin south region, and Guo Xiaotong, principal of semicolon C new media art team, came to the stage to light up the lighting festival start ball, trigger the start ball to take off, and light up six immersive light and shadow interactive devices under the guidance of the start ball, Witnessed the grand opening of the lighting Festival.
After the lighting ceremony, the theme activity of the lighting festival was opened in various artistic interpretation forms such as moon light moonlight concert and acabella vocal performance. A series of activities of love to Vientiane · heart echo new media art lighting festival will also be presented in December, including audio-visual parties, hip-hop shows and other forms of performances.
Pioneer new media artists specially customized to light the heartbeat of Chengdu
A city is colorful because of its people. Every city has its own cultural characteristics. This lighting Festival specially invited the famous pioneer new media artist team semicolon C to specially customize the new media interaction device [Chengdu Heartbeat] for Chengdu. In the creative process, his team is committed to breaking the boundary and exclusivity of digital art, so that computer-generated language is no longer a cold physical and chemical product, but uses computer to generate infinite changes of art. At present, the team’s works have been exhibited or performed in many cities in China, and have been created and exhibited in Germany, Britain, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria and other countries.
{Chengdu heartbeat} new media interactive device takes people, city, light and shadow as the design concept. Through the touch heartbeat sensor set on the interactive device platform, the real-time heart rate data is transmitted to the generated vision written by the code, so that the audience’s heart rate and code generate sound pictures, so as to produce interactive effects.
The pulse waveform generated by each heartbeat and its corresponding pulse apex will affect the generation of picture elements in vision in real time. The system will simultaneously transmit the picture to 20 holographic rings that fluctuate up and down around the audience to generate human heartbeat art images. With experimental electronic music, the audience can see the field of self heartbeat. With this device, the artist hopes to express the vitality of Chengdu and witness the vibrant urban power with Vientiane city.
Longines giant romantic Christmas tree creates a city winter dream
Time flows, freeze your wish. In this lighting Festival, Vientiane City linked the brand Longines to create a Longines time wishing tree. This Christmas tree, which is about 8 meters above the ground and covers an area of about 100 square meters, is covered with multiple LED screens. The Longines watch is inspired by pure and beautiful crystals. The crystal columns with unique shapes are scattered on the dial to create a dream time forest. When the snowflakes fall, the surprise festival will arrive as scheduled.
The audience can scan the code to participate in the interaction under the LongQin time wish tree, and project love, thanks, care and advertisements on the time wish tree to convey sincere friendship. They can also share this blessing to the circle of friends, so that relatives and friends can feel the warmth of the festival together.
Chengdu Vientiane city is constantly exploring new possibilities of urban public space. This lighting Festival further breaks the boundary between urban commerce and residents’ cultural and artistic life. Through the form of interactive new media art, it gives the audience a multi sensory experience combining vision and hearing, so as to achieve the dialogue between adults and urban light and shadow space.