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April 14, 2007
Art & Design. LED Enlightenment
Art & Design. LED Enlightenment: Light shows can make one heck of an exclamation point. Massive Attack in 2003 sent a powerful message with their visual demonstration. Ping Mag has a nice interview with the fellas about their communicative technique.
From Ping Mag: "The story goes like this: in March 2003, right after the beginning of the Iraq war, British group Massive Attack came to Japan for their “100th Window” world tour. At the show, opening act DJ Shadow made an anti-war comment and Massive Attack had a moment of silence for the victims. A huge LED board behind them showed the number of casualties and messages people had submitted to their website. The whole venue managed to transform the tense international situation to visual and sound, thus becoming quite an experience for many. Today PingMag finally met the guys behind that memorable show back then, United Visual Artists (UVA). They happened to come to Tokyo for the UK interactive design exhibition RESPONSIVE and Joel Lewis and eventually Chris Bird loved to explain their amazing light works."
Read more about LED Enlightment [Here]
Posted by taj at April 14, 2007 03:02 AM