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Welcome to Issue 45 of New Light on Old Media
Projection Mapping gets into the Eurovision Final!
The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest started off in Lisbon with the first semifinal on Tuesday night. Opera singer Elina Nechayeva, representing Estonia with the song "La Forza," has made it through to the finals, which will take place on Saturday, May 12.
Elina's amazing dress will certainly be one of the stars of the show. You can see a video here.
Projecting on people and objects is not a new idea. As early as 1891, Loie Fuller, an American actress and dancer combined her choreography with silk costumes illuminated by multi-coloured lighting of her own design and created the Serpentine Dance. With the development of digital projection there has been an upsurge in interest in these techniques so the rest of this issue of New Light on Old Media is about Projection Mapping and Light Shows.
George Auckland : Acting Editor
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Drone Light show in China breaks a record
1,374 illuminated dancing drones have achieved the Guinness World Record for the most unmanned aerial vehicles in simultaneous flight.
The stunning display in Xi'an, China, saw the drones take part in a 13-minute flight, spread over a kilometre. Watch the video here.
Your skin as a touch screen
The LumiWatch is equipped with a projector that reproduces an interactive display on the user’s arm. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have invented a smartwatch that can turn your skin into a touchscreen. Using the human body as an interactive surface is attractive for many reasons. The skin provides a natural and immediate surface for dynamic, digital projection. See more details here.
Vast virtual waterfalls and digitised natural wonders in Paris
Teamlab is bringing an immersive, 2,000 square metre exhibition to Paris, forming a vast space that allows visitors to experience the world through their own bodies.
From 4th May to 2nd September, 2018 at La Villette, ‘Au-Delà des Limites’ explores the role of digital technology in the blurring of physical and conceptual boundaries that exist between art.
More information and wonderful images here.
And even more wonders in Paris
Take a walk into Gustav Klimt’s paintings.
At the new Atelier des Lumières (Studio of Lights) in Paris, the city’s first digital art centre, you can now immerse yourself in the golden world of the Austrian painter and his iconic works such as The Kiss or the Portrait of Adele Bloch. Around 140 fixed video projectors installed across the 3,300-square-metre space and a spatialized sound system bring to life artworks and transform it in an immersive show, where the paintings are not hanging around but projected on floors, ceilings, and the wall of a former iron foundry set in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
A classical soundtrack of music by Richard Wagner, Chopin, Beethoven, Strauss, and Mahler is chosen to accompany the program, from one sequence to the next, adding an emotional dimension to this immersive exhibition.
Bump into Klimt here.
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Fairytale 360 Projection Mapped Wedding Cakes
 
You've got the projection dress now you can have the cake and eat it, however the icing on the cake is not all it seems!
The fairytale-themed projection mapped wedding cake by Candy and Grim, features princesses, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, fairies, an Ice Queen, Rapunzel, and baroque effects. Truly amazing.
Splice Festival
An audio visual performing arts festival based in London. The third edition will take place on 10 – 13 May 2018.
At its core the festival’s programme explores the overlapping fields of audio visual art and culture through a collection of live performances and projects including live cinema, AV remixing and VJing alongside other performative work that includes digital theatre, projection mapping, visual music, generative software, creative coding, experimental music and work that uses old and new technology in engaging ways.
More information here.
International Network for Audio Visual Performing Arts
More information about audio visual performing arts events around the world
More About the
Magic Lantern Society
If you have an interest in research, collecting or performance involving the magic lantern or other forms of vintage visual media you might want to consider joining The Magic Lantern Society. We publish a regular quarterly printed journal, an Online Sales and Wants newsletter and meet on a regular basis in the UK and other parts of Europe.
For further information and back issues of this e-letter go to www.magiclantern.org.uk
Our sister organisation is The Magic Lantern Society of the US and Canada :
www.magiclanternsociety.org
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