Light projection

 

The Sea of light, created by Ocubo as part of the international project Spectrum, shows the experiences of children from four European countries and the fantasy world they themselves have created. Several hundred paintings by children from Estonia, Latvia, Portugal and Slovenia have grown into a monumental mapped art video, created by Portuguese artists at workshops in said countries.

The video gives the children the possibility to explore the underwater world, co-created by “painting” the façade, to run from the sharks, to enjoy the discoveries in the inspiring sea world and to greet the audience from the ship in many vivid colors. Sea of light was originally premiered as a set of four stories on four different buildings, but the artists created a unified story for the projection in Ljubljana and adapted it to the architectural features of the City Museum building. The facade of the City Museum of Ljubljana will thus turn into an illuminated underwater fantasy world during the Museum Summer Night.

STUDIO OCUBO, the specialists for multimedia and interactive art projects, are already well known from the previous editions of the festival. Nuno Maya and Carole Purnelle, their driving forces, have for example created the projects Human Tiles and Gravitational painting (CD platform, 2010 and 2012). Both are regular contributors to international cultural venues as independent artists and as Ocubo. The studio has gained fame lately on international lighting events with their huge projections, mapped video projects on urban surfaces, especially facades and city walls that tell stories by incorporating existing architectural elements. Ocubo are the founders of the international lighting festival Lumina that attracted around 500.000 visitors every year. Several Slovenian artists and experts contribute to the festival as well, this time for the third year in a row.

 

The project is financially supported by Instituto Camões.