TEC News
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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:
Best Achievement in Technical Production
The Electric Canvas for their work on Macquarie Visions
The Electric Canvas for their work on Vivid LiveBest Achievement in Design
The Electric Canvas for their work on Macquarie Visions
Macquarie Visions is a finalist for the Best New Event award, and we are proud to have worked with AGB Events, on such an outstanding project.
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24 August 2010
The Electric Canvas On YouTube
Check out our new YouTube Page.
More edits of our work will be uploaded soon.
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25 June 2010
Luminary 2010
Luminary celebrated the bicentennial of Governor Lachlan Macquarie’s eleven year tenure as the fifth governor of NSW and his influence on the settlements around Parramatta. Presented as a narrative streetscape, Luminary applied both Digital and PIGI projection onto five significant public buildings in Parramatta -Westpac Bank, Brislington House, Government House, Lachlan Macquarie Chambers, Law Courts Clock Tower.
Over a three week production period The Electric Canvas created site specific treatments using research and relevant materials from the Macquarie Visions project whilst adding content and themes specific to the local area and its history.
Photography by First Light Photography
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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. As in 2009, The Electric Canvas was asked to apply our large-scale projection experience to illuminate the sails of the iconic Sydney Opera House from all sides.
This year’s guest artist was Laurie Anderson who has long experience with projected video, albeit on a more modest scale. Unlike the graphic designs that were projected during the 2009 festival, Anderson’s work called for playback of video animations prompting an entirely different technical and creative approach.
The Sydney Opera House is a three-dimensional structure that changes its personality and form when experienced from different vantage points around the harbour. The classic postcard view from the western shore of Circular Quay is just one of many ways this magnificent structure interacts with its environment.
In the world of large-scale video projection, common formats such as “High Definition” become meaningless and under-whelming. The Sydney Opera House is best served with images over 5,000 pixels wide, considerably more resolution than current digital cinema projection. It is this sharp definition that enhances the resonance of the images and contributes to the “apparent” brightness of the result.
Based on our initial meetings with Laurie Anderson, she decided that a high-resolution video shoot would be required using concepts created in the studio specifically for the Sydney Opera House project. The original material was shot on the super high res “Red” Camera, the closest digital version of a Hollywood film camera. Of course with all this super-high definition approach comes the legacy of enormous animation files, many gigabytes each. The Electric Canvas designed custom file templates and devised a workflow that broke down the components into manageable pieces allowing a more familiar process for the production artists and editors working with Laurie Anderson. Each sail was managed separately keeping the file sizes within reasonable limits. This approach also allowed for more flexibility on-site and was used to good effect to create additional material and compositions once the project was installed and running.
Check out Indigo Zoom's beautiful film of Macquarie Visions and Vivid Live 2010. Shot with a DSLR over 4 weeks and cut to Marcus Schulz's Alpha State - Album Mix, this stunning work captures the beauty of our architectural projection, and its interaction with environment and people.
www.indigozoom.com
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27 May 2010
Macquarie Visions Sydney 2010
Macquarie Visions celebrated the 200th anniversary of Lachlan Macquarie’s arrival in Sydney as New South Wales’ fifth governor. The event highlighted Lachlan Macquarie and his wife Elizabeth’s achievements over eleven amazing years, during which they instigated significant changes to the colony that have helped to shape our nation. The project was the brainchild of Anthony Bastic of AGB Events and Carolyn Grant of Avviso. The story of Macquarie Visions was focussed on the ceremonial axis of Sydney, Macquarie Street, and featured St Mary’s Cathedral, The Hyde Park Barracks, The Mint, Parliament House, The Mitchell Library and The Conservatorium of Music.
The Electric Canvas consulted on the creative opportunities presented by each site, and then recommended the best application of a variety of projection technologies to achieve the goals of the producers. Based on our venue surveys, detailed image templates were created for use in the design process.
Over an intense five-week production period, we brought to life a rich and complex visual treatment for Macquarie Visions, combining digital animations, architecturally accurate decorative stills, and scrolling image sequences. Using the client’s well-researched briefs, we interpreted a collection of historical documents and images into an accessible “Son et Lumiere” experience designed to engage a broad audience.
The Electric Canvas applied its creative and technical talent to create Macquarie Visions, capturing the unique beauty of that early colonial period, while achieving a modern look and experience.
Photography by Toby Dixon
Check out Indigo Zoom's beautiful film of Macquarie Visions and Vivid Live 2010. Shot with a DSLR over 4 weeks and cut to Marcus Schulz's Alpha State - Album Mix, this stunning work captures the beauty of our architectural projection, and its interaction with environment and people.
www.indigozoom.com
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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. The Electric Canvas provided the equipment and expertise to project a 50m x 35m high resolution digital video image onto the field, at 150 lux brightness, prior to the kick off of a test match between Australia and New Zealand. An array for eighteen 20,000 ANSI lumen projectors were used under the control of our OnlyView media system. A giant live image window was planned to relay a shot of the stadium from the television helicopter however low cloud saw the the effect scrubbed at the last moment. -
19 March 2010
Generation One Launch, Adelaide 2010
GenerationOne is a movement for all Australians to eliminate Indigenous poverty & disadvantage in our lifetime.
For the national launch of GenerationOne, The Electric Canvas created decorative treatments based on the organisation’s identity artwork for public buildings along the city’s North Terrace: The Institute, State Library of SA, The SA Museum, The Art Gallery of SA, The Mitchell Building, Elder Hall, and Bonythan Hall. The projections were seen as part of the final week of Northern Lights, Adelaide Festival of Arts 2010.
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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. Due to public demand after its enormously popular debut in 2008, Northern Lights returned to the 2010 festival with new themes and designs influenced by incoming festival director Paul Grabowski. Merging the legacy of Adelaide’s floriade traditions with a suburban theme, the new designs added interesting transformations to this unique streetscape. As in 2008, we transformed The Institute, State Library of SA, The SA Museum, The Art Gallery of SA, The Mitchell Building, Elders Hall, and Bonythan Hall with the addition of an exciting new venue, Parliament House. The Parliament House projections utilised the rear façade that faces festival square and presented indigenous art from the Anangu Pitjanjatjara/Yankunytjatjara lands in South Australia's north west. In addition to a nightly image loop, an animated PIGI show was developed to accompany indigenous performances of the Liru Tjukurrpa, a story of ancient significance to the people of Ernabella a community positioned in the beautiful Musgrave Ranges. -
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. After conducting a 3D laser survey of the venue, we created a 3D work workflow that allowed images and scrolling effects to be accurately mapped onto the spectators who were wearing light-coloured ponchos provided in their audience kits. Thirty six PIGI projectors were provided and installed by ETC of Paris while The Electric Canvas designed the images, developed effects and produced the 72 film strips for the projectors. The PIGI projections had to work hand-in-hand with the cutting-edge digital projections that were the cornerstone of the show’s scenic component. Colour and motion had to allow the audience projections to become an integrated extension of the stage and scenic projections. -
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 - the city's historic army barracks. The Electric Canvas designed and animated beautiful architecturally-accurate sequences and created an evocative soundscape for the piece.
Utilizing 3D animation and a wide range of 2D graphics and animation techniques we developed a richly decorative, sometimes transformative and often surprising public cultural event. Using OnlyView and Christie Roadster projectors The Electric Canvas delivered a vivid exciting event that captured the imagination and challenged the viewer.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/theelectriccanvas#p/a/u/2/bTGgFFSoYow
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30 November 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 - the city's historic army barracks. The Electric Canvas designed and animated beautiful architecturally-accurate sequences and created an evocative soundscape for the piece.
Utilizing 3D animation and a wide range of 2D graphics and animation techniques we developed a richly decorative, sometimes transformative and often surprising public cultural event. Using OnlyView and Christie Roadster projectors The Electric Canvas delivered a vivid exciting event that captured the imagination and challenged the viewer.
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7 September 2009
Deaflympics Opening Ceremony Taipei, Taiwan. 7 September 2009
The Opening Ceremony of the 2009 Deaflympics represented the largest international event ever staged in Taiwan. Under the watchful eye of legendary theatre and film writer/director, Stan Lai, the ambitious project incorporated numerous large scale stadia effects applied with the sensitivity of an intimate theatrical production set to a creative treatment bristling with fresh ideas and a playful twist.
The Electric Canvas was asked to provide PIGI projection onto a 100m x 60m area of the stadium floor as well as a 30m x 20m digital projection onto the surface of the raised central stage. We visited the site to conduct a complete 3D laser survey of the stadium before designing the technical overlay and detailing the significant amount of infrastructure required to accurately position and protect 27 PIGI projectors and 16 Digital projectors. The Electric Canvas controlled the projections from our OnlyView system that also delivered content to stadium and scenic LED screens and to the host broadcaster. -
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.
The artist insisted on the most energy efficient approach to the projections. The Electric Canvas' solution was demonstrated to provide maximum resolution with minimal lost footprint resulting in optimal brightness for minimum energy consumption.
The eastern side of the building was illuminated by PIGI filmstrip projectors working from an incredible 650m distance. Spectators from Mrs Macquaries Point saw a slowly scrolling montage composed of images from Eno's thirty year archives.
All electrical energy used for the Luminous projection was provided by Bio Diesel silenced portable generators.
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13 June 2009
FACADE -Smart Light Sydney - 26 May - 14 June 2009
As a contributer to the recent Smart Light Sydney festival The Electric Canvas presented "Façade" - a series of architectural projections onto the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Smart Light Sydney set out to create an energy-neutral festival or light and art ideas in the background of the urban lightscape. "Facade" at the MCA is one of many stops along a Light Walk that stretches from Observatory Hill to the Sydney Opera House.
The Electric Canvas adapted several of the artworks of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama whose exhibition "Mirrored Years" was resident at the MCA. With a further five projection designs of its own, The Electric Canvas will confirm the viable role of designed projection as an efficient and flexible technique in architectural illumination.
The eye-catching projections used three scrolling film projectors programmed for a repeating loop that ran from 6.00pm until Midnight each night of the festival.
Link: http://www.news.com.au/travel/gallery/0,23607,5055636-5007153-6,00.html
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25 May 2009
Smart Light Sydney - Light Walk
Fizzing virtual reality displays of animation, projection and video will cast Sydney's past, present and future in a spectacular and inspiring new light.
Link: http://www.timeoutsydney.com.au/aroundtown/event/smart-light-sydney---light-walk.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.
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29 February 2008
Northern Lights
The Electric Canvas has been commissioned by the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts to illuminate seven iconic historical buildings along the city's North Terrace. Several colourful decorative and transformative treatments can be seen in continuous sequence nightly from February 29 until March 16 2008.
The buildings include the State Library of South Australia, the Institute Building, South Australian Museum, as well as the Art Gallery of South Australia, and three landmark university buildings including the Mitchell Building, Bonython Hall and Elder Hall.
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1 February 2008
Northern Lights by the Electric Canvas
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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1 February 2008
Color From The Adelaide Festival: Northern Lights
Light projection installations have been filling dark nights with radiant colors a lot in the past year. With the previously mentioned exhibit Evoke, by Usman Haque, who wrapped the facade of York Minister with projected colors that were sensitive to the sound waves created by people in the immediate area, to the recently ended Adelaide Festival exhibit, Northern Lights.
Link: http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2008/04/14/color-from-the-adelaide-festival-northern-lights
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1 November 2006
15th Asian Games Opening Ceremony
Khalifer Stadium, Doha, Qatar 2007
For the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2006 Asian Games, The Electric Canvas utilized forty-four PIGI projectors from France and almost a kilometre of PIGI film. This represented the largest number of PIGI projectors ever used on a single screen surface, with a total of 254 kilowatts delivering 350 000 lumens of light output.
The ceremony featured a fourteen thousand square metre image area displaying images and effects designed and tested with a PIgI simulator in Sydney, Australia. The show was installed and maintained by a crew of eight specialized technicians who syncronised the projection to the show using time-code.
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30 March 2006
Louis Vuitton Party - Taipei
Taipei, Taiwan April 2006
To celebrate the opening of a new store in Taipei, LV threw one of their famous parties by taking over Chang Kai Shek Square.
A large party structure was built in front of the Memorial Hall to house over 2000 invitees who partied into the small hours. Guests were greeted on arrival by decorative architectural projections onto the 70m wide entrance gate. The centre-piece of the CKS site is the Memorial hall. Scrolling and decorative projection transformed the hall and the party structure set in front. Images featured Louis Vuitton branding as well as chrysanthemum motifs designed by local artist Michael Lin.
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13 August 2005
2005 ISES ESPRIT Award Winner
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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15 December 2004
Cartier Store Launch
Shanghai China December 2004
When Cartier opened their latest store on the historic Bund in Shanghai, China, The Electric Canvas was asked to project some logos onto the building for the occasion. Using our custom built survey camera, we were able to do much more.
Details:
A template that accurately captured the intricate details of the building’s facade was created, and a series of 12 highly decorative treatments were prepared. Each was branded with the Cartier logo, and used Cartier jewellery as decorative elements.A media awareness was generated by commencing the projection several nights before the opening party and inviting press to view this imposing Cartier light sculpture.
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30 August 1999
Petronas twin towers
The world’s tallest building came alive when it was presented to the world amidst a display of scintillating fireworks and a spectacular light and sound show in an opening ceremony that was filled with pomp and splendor. Situated in a prime location in the capital, the gleaming 420m Petronas Twin Towers, a symbol of the nation’s soaring success, exemplified Malaysia’s sky-high ambitions towards the new millennium.
Link: http://nait5.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/petronas-twin-towers/
