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.

26th SEA Games - Opening Ceremony

Palembang, Indonesia

11th November 2011

 26th SEA Games - Opening Ceremony 
 Palembang, Indonesia 
 11th November 2011

 

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11 November 2011

Sriwijaya - A Golden Peninsula

The 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 Games

The 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 Conflict

By 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 - Illuma

New 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 2011

Nothing 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 Sails

The 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 2011

See 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 2010

The 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 2010

In 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 red

As 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 2010

The 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 Day

From 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 MacKillop

The 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 Awards

The Electric Canvas is thrilled to announce that our work on Macquarie Visions has been recognised with two awards at the 2010 Australian Event Awards...

Link: http://www.eventawards.com.au/finalists2010.htm

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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 Australia

The 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 Projections

In 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 Canvas

Exciting news for The Electric Canvas, the Finalists for the 2010 Australian Event Awards have been announced.

We are finalists for three awards...

Link: http://www.eventawards.com.au/finalists.html

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27 May 2010

Vivid Live 2010

The 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 2010

The 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 2010

For 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 2010

In 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 2010

The 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 2009

The 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 2009

The 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.

Link: http://luminous.sydneyoperahouse.com/sails.aspx

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13 May 2009

Telecom NZ XT Network Launch

The 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.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdbINlqjTUI

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1 February 2008

Northern Lights by the Electric Canvas

Northern 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 Winner

Louis 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.

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