Light Reading 7

Hello,

2018 has been a big year for public art at Lightwell. Below is an update of two artworks that have recently opened in Seoul, South Korea, and Green Square, Sydney.

High Water

After four years of weather watching, High Water officially opened at the Green Square Library last week.

Separated into an abstract representation of sky and sea, our nine metre pillar takes live data from weather sensors and the web, transforming them into moving watercolours. The artwork changes every minute of the day, determined by the temperature, humidity, wind direction, precipitation levels and tidal patterns that surround it.

Using a mix of handmade watercolours and generative art, High Water provides its own visual language for our shifting climate.

The artwork is completely powered by renewable energy and an online archive is available here.

Archival images from www.highwater.sydney

Special thanks to Jisuk Han at X Squared Design, Event Engineering, Big Screen Projects and City of Sydney for all their help with this project.

An Earlier Conversation

In August this year, we installed An Earlier Conversation for the City of Seoul in South Korea.

With help from the Art Factory in Incheon and the Hangang Art Park, the artwork consists of 55 copper gramophone horns that stand together along the Han River.

The horns play an immersive soundscape; snippets of bees, birds and music that mix the natural with the man-made.

You can check out the videos for these artworks, as well as many of our other projects, here on our projects page.

Light Reading 6

Hello!

Light Reading Issue 6 is all about two new public artworks we've been working on: a 3-screen video installation for the Chippendale New World Art Prize and a 9 metre watercolour pillar for the City of Sydney at Green Square. 

As always, you can find documentation of all our new projects here on our website. 

 

Chippendale New World Art Prize

We are very excited to have won the 2016 Chippendale New World Art Prize with our work Dyeing Breath.

The Artwork is a three-screen video installation comprising of an iPad interface and a C++ app. The program warps 360-degree video footage that we shot with a 6 camera Go-Pro rig.

In response to the Prize's 2016 theme of spirit, Dyeing Breath is an unveiling of our environment's ever-present spirit. 

If you missed the exhibition at The Old Rum Store in Chippendale, you can check out a video and WebGL version of the program here. 

High Water

In other exciting news, High Water has been selected as a permanent public artwork to activate to the new Green Square town centre in Sydney.

Scheduled to be installed in the public plaza outside the library in early 2018, the artwork is a 9 metre two-sided blade with high resolution LED screens which will graphically interpret local weather patterns and tidal information. Using integrated sensors and live data feeds, the artwork will display real-time data of local weather patterns and tidal information. 

The blade's program will be created using a mixed style of hand-created watercolours and generative art - computer produced patterns designed by our team that constantly transform in relation to linked live data. In this generative watercolour, the weather system will ultimately take on the daily role of creator. 

Watery blues at the tower base will rise and fall with the tidal patterns of the hour. The skies above will shift in pattern and colour depending on the sun's position, temperature and wind directions. 

A complementary web app will allow visitors to understand the data, colours and patterns in real time and see visual summaries of local environmental conditions over the day, week and year.

You can check out our video here. We look forward to keeping you updated as the project progresses. 

Light Reading 5

Hello!

We've just released another digital story for the State Library of NSW.

Voyages of Discovery takes visitors on an interactive search for Terra Australia Incognita – the unknown southern land. Exploring the State Library's incredible maps, journals, drawings and books, this story explains how the European discoveries of Australia were gradually pieced together.

Like our previous three stories; The Holtermann Collection, The Derby Collection and Eora: 1770-1850, our latest story Voyages of Discovery is a responsive scroll-down web app that provides visitors with a new and exciting way to understand one of the Library’s greatest collections. 

Stage 1 has just been released, with additional chapters coming in the next few months. We'll keep you updated and would love to know what you think!