Fjord Oslo festival illuminates the city with series of installations
Seven installations lit up Oslo's harbour promenade for the inaugural Fjord Oslo light festival, each showing the effect that light can have on our emotions.
In celebration of Oslo as European Green Capital of the year, all projects made use of light through a variety of approaches and technologies, to help visitors see their surroundings in a new way.
Laszlo Bardos' Lysyntese was projected onto Oslo's city hall
Lysyntese by Hungarian artist Laszlo Bardos is one of two installations that were commissioned especially for the festival that took place last weekend, and saw the facade of Oslo's city hall turned into a canvas for a series of projections.
These centre on the process of photosynthesis which, through the medium of light, forms the very basis of life on earth. The installation combined projections with programmable lights and stroboscopes
"If light is so important for our biologic existence, then light art is similarly important to our spiritual existence," Bardos explained. "It affects people in many non-physical ways: emotional, psychological, intellectual."
In the hopes of harnessing this effect, Bardos used architectural projection mapping to overlay 3D animations onto the building's exterior.
Silje Thorsager Østby's installation made the mist surrounding a hill in Kontraskjæret visible
This involves using lasers to scan the building's exterior in order to create a virtual 3D model, which in turn allows Bardos to digitally render his animat...
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