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This year the festival has 3 instalations using the light as tool to enchant our eyes!
The Prism
Opening times: From Daily 10:45 - 16:30 please go to veuveclicquotprism.com for more information and to book tickets.
Prism presents an alternative view of London, exposing unseen data flows in the capital through a sculptural, immersive interface suspended in the V&A’s uppermost cupola. The installation is an investigation into the virtual life of the city, and our own often ambiguous relationship with the data that controls our lives.
First time visitors to the London Design Festival are often blown away by the scale and variousness of the city they've come to. How do you even begin to represent such complexity?
London-based designer, digital artist and film-maker Keiichi Matsuda's Prism presents an ingenious window on that complexity, using data to depict the ever changing nature of the capital. His formidable digital installation at the V&A - a giant, sculptural lantern - is made up from a series of screens through which fast moving data streams are visualised, coaxed into unfolding shapes and patterns of light and colour.
From transport data to economic statistics, Matsuda's Prism feeds on the digital outputs of the city and transforms them into an astonishing living patchwork. As Matsuda says, "The installation is an investigation into the virtual life of the city, and our own often ambiguous relationship with the data that controls our lives."
Here at the London Design Festival we love to open up new spaces in the city. Keiichi Matsuda's installation, commissioned by Veuve Clicquot, is installed in the cupola of the V&A's Ceramics galleries and best seen by climbing staircases never previously opened to the public.
Commissioned by Veuve Clicquot
Walk The Light
It’s a given that light changes space, but in Walk The Light it becomes you, the visitor, who determines that change in the lighting. Your movement through the V&A Exhibition Road Tunnel Entrance will directly control this innovative lighting installation.
This stunning interactive lighting design project by Dominic Harris, and his team at Cinimod Studio, creates a band of white light that physically follows the visitor, forming a bright line of light tracking their journey. As one person passes, the white light jumps to the next arrival. Either side of the white band, washes of strong colour are pushed and pulled along the tunnel creating an ambient lighting effect that represents the overall ebb and flow of the day’s visitors. Throughout the day
it is expected there will be a shift in the hue and saturation of these colours as they respond to the prevailing direction of movement of the crowds.
it is expected there will be a shift in the hue and saturation of these colours as they respond to the prevailing direction of movement of the crowds.
Using a combination of technologies, including thermal camera tracking and Philips LED lighting mounted on a moving monorail, Walk the Light demonstrates lighting design’s increasing sophistication as it playfully – and beautifully – transforms the experience of arriving at the museum.
Cinimod Studio is a London-based cross-disciplinary design practice specialising in architecture, interaction design and lighting design.
"THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE ARE PHYSICALLY MOVING LIGHT FIXTURES BY THERMAL CAMERA CONTROL AND IT’S EXCITING TO SEE HOW THE V&A VISITORS WILL REACT TO BEING SO PIVOTAL WITHIN THIS LIGHTING EXPERIMENT" Dominic Harris, Cinimod Studio
The Ice Angel
A second installation by Dominic Harris, Ice Angel, uses more LEDs - 6,500 to be precise - along with cameras and computer coding to create unique angle wings for those who stand in front of the screen. Visitors move their arms up and down and the lights make it appear as if they were flying.
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