THE ELECTRIC CANVAS is an Australian company expert in the specialised field of large scale projection.
We are a complete solution provider for projection projects of any scale. Through the use of high-powered digital projectors and our PIGI filmstrip projectors our artists, designers and technicians can accurately apply light and art to structures and surfaces for a wide variety of applications.
White Night Melbourne
"Theatre of Dreams" - Flinders Street Station
23 February 2013
TEC News
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17 May 2013 The Electric Canvas returns to VIVIDWe're excited to present "Cadman's Finger" at this year's Vivid festival in Sydney. Our fun & engaging interactive projection at Cadman's Cottage gives participants the chance to create their own architectural projection. We look forward to seeing you there! |
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10 May 2013 TEC helps celebrate 125 years of PLC SydneyWe were pleased to be part of the 125th Anniversary celebrations of Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney. |
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24 April 2013 ANZAC Day projectionsIt was an honour to be a part of this year's ANZAC Day commemorations at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/australianwarmemorial/sets/72157633346156780/with/8678524069/ |
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23 March 2013 Beaming up Star Trek: Into DarknessThe new Paramount Pictures film, "Star Trek: Into Darkness" held its Australian premiere here in Sydney. Visual Event Management produced the event, bringing together Hollywood stars, red carpet and The Electric Canvas to create a memorable evening for the film's cast and fans alike. |
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10 March 2013 Canberra gets EnlightenedFor the third consecutive year The Electric Canvas was delighted to be part of Canberra’s Enlighten Festival, producing magnificent projections onto the facades of the capital’s landmark buildings. |
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26 February 2013 The Electric Canvas at White Night MelbourneThe inaugural White Night Melbourne event held on Saturday 23rd February has been hailed as major success with more than 200,000 people on the streets of Melbourne for the all night festival. The Electric Canvas was the principal production partner for the event and provided a large footprint of building projections over two major precincts. |
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17 February 2013 Chinese New Year Twilight Parade 2013The Year of the Snake kicked off in Sydney with the Chinese New Year Twilight Parade, illuminated by stunning projections onto the city’s buildings by The Electric Canvas. |
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10 January 2013 A Melbourne Town Hall ChristmasIf you were in Melbourne before Christmas, we hope you made your way over to Melbourne Town Hall to experience our most ambitious 3D mapping project to date. Click below to read more and see the video highlights! Link: http://vimeo.com/theelectriccanvas/melbournetownhall2012 |
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6 December 2012 Brookfield heritage Christmas projections in PerthPerth's new commercial precinct, Brookfield Place, was launched with the help of The Electric Canvas in September of this year. Three months on, we returned with nightly projections onto the facades of five of the development's heritage buildings along St Georges Terrace. |
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29 November 2012 Christmas at Sydney Town HallFor the eighth consecutive year since 2005, The Electric Canvas decorated the Sydney Town Hall for Christmas with stunning architectural projection. |
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16 November 2012 Turning on Perth's Christmas LightsPerth’s iconic General Post Office building was the backdrop for “Turning on the Christmas Lights”, which ran for ten days during the month of November. |
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25 May 2012 The Electric Canvas Presents "City Life"The Electric Canvas presents "City Life" as part of Vivid Sydney. Using the ornate architecture of Customs House as a skeleton, an elaborate city within a city is created. As the morning sun rises, the buildings, streets, overpasses and infrastructure emerge out of Customs House, like an organism coming to life. Hundreds of people, cars, buses and trains traverse the city. Mercurial weather patterns, traffic lights flashing, horns honking, the everyday hustle and bustle. |
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2 March 2012 Enlighten, Canberra Festival 2012Some of our favourite photos of Questacon and Museum of Australian Democracy. |
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2 March 2012 Enlighten, Canberra Festival 2012Some of our favourite photos of National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, and National Portrait Gallery. |
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22 February 2012 NRL 2012 Season LaunchUsing 3D mapping techniques we created an animated montage of team colours, action packed player imagery and an extreme treatment of the 2012 TV ad campaign, all of which were emblazoned across the façade of the new building. “Welcome to Our House” was a resounding crowd pleaser. |
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29 January 2012 Chinese New Year Twilight Parade 2012Sydney’s Chinese New Year celebrations get bigger and brighter each year. This years’ Twilight Parade celebrated the Year of the Dragon with almost 3000 performers parading through the city and on to Chinatown. An estimated crowd of 100,000 enthusiastic people lined the route. |
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11 November 2011 Sriwijaya - A Golden PeninsulaThe 26th South East Asian Games got off to a spectacular start with the Opening Ceremony in Palembang. |
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1 November 2011 South East Asian GamesThe Electric Canvas is thrilled to announce it has been appointed by the Indonesia South East Asian Games Organising Committee (INASOC) to provide projection services for Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 26th SEA Games in Palembang Indonesia. |
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6 October 2011 Cacophony – the Art of ConflictBy clever and often witty mixing of music, sound and 3D projection mapping, Hammer Hall and the State Theatre came to life in a ‘Cacophony’ of sound and rich visuals for two weeks during the Melbourne International Arts Festival. |
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19 September 2011 Festival of Carnivale - IllumaNew Zealand is a nation that loves Rugby. As part of the celebrations for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, Wellington City Council created a temporary fan site down on the water front. |
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27 May 2011 "Unfamiliar Customs" Vivid 2011Nothing is as it seems as one of Sydney’s most stunning colonial buildings,Customs House, is brought to life in "Unfamiliar Customs". |
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27 May 2011 Light the SailsThe Electric Canvas continued it’s support of Vivid Live by providing the seamless technical delivery of the projections on to the sails of the Sydney Opera House. French design collective Superbien were the artists commissioned to create this years projections. ‘La Macula’ was an artwork that played across the iconic architecture in humorous and psychedelic electropop explosion of light. |
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14 March 2011 Enlighten 2011See Canberra In A Whole New Light For nine nights in March 2011 as part of the Enlighten Festival, four of Canberra's most iconic buildings were transformed into beautiful and unexpected art by The Electric Canvas. |
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8 December 2010 The Lights of Christmas 2010The Lights of Christmas is a new Sydney event and the brainchild of Anthony Bastic of AGB Events. The Electric Canvas was invited... |
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2 December 2010 FIFA 2018 & 2022 Host Nation Announcements 2-3 December 2010In anticipation of the announcements of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup host nations, The Electric Canvas projected images onto... |
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30 November 2010 Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge turn redAs part of the global campaign by Product (RED) in the fight against AIDS, the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge were... |
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18 November 2010 Sydney Townhall Christmas 2010The Electric Canvas's Christmas projections onto the Sydney Town Hall took on a new dimension this year, for the first time... |
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10 November 2010 Remembrance DayFrom dusk on the evening of the 10th of November until dawn on Remembrance Day the striking Anzac War Memorial in Hyde Park... |
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17 October 2010 Canonisation of Blessed Mary MacKillopThe Electric Canvas was engaged to project images onto both pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of the celebrations... |
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7 October 2010 2010 Australian Event AwardsThe Electric Canvas is thrilled to announce that our work on Macquarie Visions has been recognised with two awards at the 2010 Australian Event Awards... |
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30 September 2010 NRL Grand Final Footy Fever Hits The Harbour Bridge!As part of the 2010 NRL Grand Final festivities, The Electric Canvas projected a series of ‘Memorable Moments’ from... |
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27 September 2010 A New Look For The National Gallery of AustraliaThe Electric Canvas was delighted once again to work with AGB Events. This time we headed to Canberra and the National Gallery of Australia for the opening of its new... |
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13 September 2010 Sydney Olympic Games 10th Anniversary ProjectionsIn celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and to say thank you to the thousands of volunteers... |
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27 August 2010 Australian Event Awards Finalist - The Electric CanvasExciting news for The Electric Canvas, the Finalists for the 2010 Australian Event Awards have been announced. We are finalists for three awards... |
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27 May 2010 Vivid Live 2010The VIVID festival has just completed its second year and continues to go from strength to strength... |
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8 May 2010 Opening of AAMI Park Melbourne - 8 May 2010The opening of the new AAMI football stadium in Melbourne was celebrated with a pre-match spectacular featuring the largest and brightest digital projection yet staged on a playing field in Australia. |
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19 March 2010 Generation One Launch, Adelaide 2010For the national launch of GenerationOne, The Electric Canvas was engaged by Inspire to create decorative treatments based on... |
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26 February 2010 Adelaide Festival of Arts , Northern Lights 2010In early 2010 The Electric Canvas presented “Northern Lights”, a multi-site architectural decorative streetscape that ran as part of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts. |
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1 February 2010 XXI Olympic Winter Games, Opening and Closing Ceremonies, Vancouver February 2010The Electric Canvas projected images onto the entire 60,000 strong audience at the Vancouver 2010 opening and closing ceremonies. |
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5 December 2009 Illuminations, Noumea 2009The Electric Canvas created a fifteen minute “Son et Lumiere” on one of Noumea's iconic colonial facades, Caserne Gally-Passebosc... Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/theelectriccanvas#p/a/u/2/bTGgFFSoYow |
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14 June 2009 Luminous, Sydney Opera House May-June 2009The Electric Canvas and our project partners, Big Picture, were engaged by the Sydney Opera House to provide high power projections for Luminous, curated by Brian Eno, part of the Vivid Sydney Festival and SmartLight Sydney. Paintings selected from the artist's significant body of work were displayed in a continuously changing interaction that did not repeat over the course of the 21 day installation. At Circular Quay, The Electric Canvas used an array of fourteen high powered data projectors from a distance of 450m. The Digital projections were controlled by the OnlyView timeline based media system that took care of all scaling and programming. |
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13 May 2009 Telecom NZ XT Network LaunchThe Electric Canvas will stage projections onto the Auckland Town Hall as part of the launch ot Telecom NZ new XT network. Fantasy transformations will bring the exterior of the Auckland Town Hall to life with a large scale multimedia production using synchronized architectural and high powered digital projections. From a licorice house filled with people dancing and partying to a windswept Cape complete with lighthouse and crashing waves, the installation is set to mesmerise from 15th to 19th May. |
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1 February 2008 Northern Lights by the Electric CanvasNorthern Lights Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts Adelaide's cultural institutions will become even more illuminating when their architectural facades are transformed with a kaleidoscope of projected images in Northern Lights. Link: http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,,23284511-5016446,00.html |
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13 August 2005 2005 ISES ESPRIT Award WinnerLouis Vuitton's 150TH Anniversary Party Mizrahi Adams Productions (NY,TOKYO), Serious Staging (HK) The Electric Canvas has won the "Creative Solution" category of the 2005 ISES (International Special Events Society) Esprit Awards. Our entry in the category was our projection for the Louis Vuitton 150th Anniversary Party in New York, where we overcame site limitations and obstructions using a variety of innovative techniques. Winners were announced at ISES Esprit Awards Gala on August 13, 2005 in Los Angeles California. |
