This Soda News item was written on 17 January 07.
Fiddian and Soda with artist Siobhan Hapaska have just unveiled ‘Wave’, a large sculptural low resolution screen for Dublin’s newly revamped Ilac Shopping Centre. The ‘portrait’ format screen is made up of 64 vertical Aluminium 5.5 meter extrusions each containing 96 four LED clusters thus making a huge, super bright 96 x 64 pixel screen. The extrusions are arranged in a wave form so at a distance and face on it appears as an ordinary screen but from the side appears as an abstract light sculpture.
The launch video content for ‘Wave’ reflects the Ilac’s environment and much of it was produced with Dublin school children. In the next phase we hope to use some of Soda’s skills and experience with computer vision generative art software to enable the Ilac’s audience to interact in real time with the screen.
Soda also produced custom playout and administration software that enables control of the screens content over the internet. Technographic did a fantastic job, as ever, with the screen’s production and it has been a real pleasure working with the Ilac’s architects Benoy.
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