AV Projects

Pixelated Clouds Hang Over Amazon’s Seattle Campus

Published

9 years ago

October 23, 2015

The Pacific Northwest is rainy. Lots of clouds. The Amazon offices are also in the Pacific Northwest—in Seattle, to be exact. Like other giant tech companies, Amazon created a cloud so we can pay them to store data. To celebrate this transition from our “our analog hard copy world and local computer storage” to a “cloud-based system,” multimedia artist Dan Corson has created Nebulous, a public art sculpture of two large, pixelated cloud forms.

Located at Amazon’s Seattle campus, these two “low-res” cloud forms—which are neither fully transparent or opaque—are made of a variety of colored glass, transparent conducting film, aluminum, photovoltaics, LEDs and other electronic components. Switch-glass panels designed via parametric modeling form the skin of the cloud-inspired sculptures.

Nebulous from Dan Corson on Vimeo.

“The sunlight-projected patterns create animated colored shadows on the courtyard below,” Corson notes. “The pulsing patterns at night are created by the animation of the switchglass, not the static white LEDs behind them. The computer controlled switch-glass patterning content plays in a 20-minute loop that switches between static, slower and faster animations.”

“These ‘low-res’ clouds have select glass discs that shift between levels of opacity in a digital dance resembling old school calculating computers or perhaps pulsing lightning within clouds on a stormy night,” he adds.

Nebulous is now visible outside of Amazon’s Seattle campus. Click here to see more of Dan Corson’s work.

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AV Projects

The Sharjah Light Festival is back with 11 nights of colourful displays

Published

3 years ago

January 31, 2022

FrontFX Magazine

The festival kicks off next month

There’s a dazzling projection art event coming to Sharjah.

Sharjah Light Festival is returning for 2022 with 11 nights of colourful projections and music. If this year is anything like previous festivals, our eyes are in for a treat.

The colourful festival is the first and only of its kind in the region and has been running for over ten years. It attracts thousands of visitors to up to 20 locations in Sharjah each year. The designs are inspired by local culture, stories and traditions.

The 2022 Sharjah Light Festival goes from February 9 to February 20 and is organized by the Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority.

The festival brings a kaleidoscope of creative lights and colour to Sharjah’s architecture. Diverse locations are featured during the annual show, with light and sound spectacles that transform them. (Have your camera ready.) The festival uses energy-saving lighting technology and all the lights and projectors used have passed certification for environmental compliance.

The Sharjah Light Festival also showcases the emirate’s rich heritage and historical monuments. Local and international artists, musicians and light technicians collaborate to showcase the emirate’s achievements.

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