Lux Partum: interactive and collaborative lighting installation against the pandemic

Created by lighting and show designer Chris Moylan and his team to fight COVID-19, this artistic creation has used the lighting devices and effects of Robe so that users could interact with the installation.

The event space Motorwerk in Berlin (Germany) has been the stage to shape Lux Partum (Light emission in Latin), an interactive and artistic lighting installation resulting from the collaborative project of lighting and show designer Chris Moylan and his team, which has been broadcast live for ten days to help eliminate the coronavirus pandemic.

This live work of light art has had a team formed by Lars Murasch (of Murasch & Sons), Responsible for deployment and technical equipment; Andreas Schindler (of Grosses Tennis), for visual content development; Matthias Schöffmann (of Depot-Zwei), Responsible for the programming of lighting operators, and music producer and DJ Paul van, who composed a special soundtrack and offered a live concert through the website of lighting.stream

The light work has used 54 Manufacturer Systems Steal, including twenty MegaPointe and equal number of Pointe, installed to the left and right of the room in fixed position, along with fourteen bars of Led Tetra2, located on both sides of the Led screens, and a control console.

All appliances and systems in this installation, supplied by the rental company TLT Event, It was programmed and interconnected in a precise way so that the public could interact with the lighting installation in real time through the aforementioned website..

specifically, At the end of the ten days of activity, more than 43.000 visitors from 94 Countries had become involved with this artistic work of light and sound, in 6.355 Sessions logged using lighting.stream's bespoke user interface technology, to create more than 200.000 Different combinations of lighting and video.

Participants could select the color and patterns of lighting and video effects as they played on the music track., changing at predetermined points to keep pace.

The lighting was programmed on a grandMA2 console of MA Lighting, while Andreas Schindler created the images using Notch through a media server of Disguise to map it on Led screens and play with Resolume All lighting and video effects.

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