Fly High - Time Flies

2016, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Source: 2016, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
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Description
Fly High Time Flies
Projection Mapping Installation
©2016, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer
Winner of the Open Sky Project ICC Tower contest, Hong Kong

Our times are characterized by transience, impermanence and change. The computer generated sequence "Fly High - Time Flies" is composed of a swarm of artificial flies. They slowly appear, propagate and gradually invade the whole ICC Tower, before flying away again. Short swarming sequences and text messages with various plays on words around the terms fly, flies, may, sky, high, times, and life will appear. These messages remind us of the ephemeral moment, just like a mayfly, they symbolize time passing by.

This animation was developed by Mignonneau and Sommerer for the world's biggest media façade, the 77,000 sqm of urban media screen that makes up the façade of the highest tower in Hong Kong : the ICC (484m).
Keywords
  • aesthetics
    • ephemeral
    • projected
  • subjects
    • Nature and Environment
      • animals
    • Society and Culture
      • urban space
  • technology
    • displays
      • non-electronic displays
        • house walls
Technology & Material
Hardware
Movie file (mp4)
Large display
Interface
LED Facade Display from the ICC building, Hong Kong
Software
Virtual Flies invade the building, forming patterns and text messages
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