Vivid Sydney Festival of Light
Human Connection through Light Technology
Sydney, Australia, May 2024 –TDC – Technical Direction Company.
TDC is partnering with Vivid Sydney festival of light for the 14th year. This year see’s TDC’s highly experienced team of project managers, creative technologists and designers work together to display the beautiful and dazzling works of the festivals artists’ though projection mapping, LED technology and holographic technology. “We are at a place with technology in every aspect of our lives that the convergence of technology and art becomes more inventive every day” says Michael Hassett, Founder and MD TDC.
TDC has a deployed an impressive array of technology for Vivid Sydney 2024 with Projection mapping installations across a number of locations including the Sydney Harbour Bridge pylons created by indigenous artist Tori-Jay’s, Customs House created by national icon Reg Mombassa and The Spinifex Group, Sydney Opera House, created by Julia Gutman and Pleasant Company, The Museum of Contemporary Art, created by Guan Wei and The Spinifix Group, The ASN Clock Tower, created by VANDAL, Cadmans Cottage created by Cody Samson, The Australian National Maritime Museum, created by Studio Gilay. Holographic technology has been deployed at Stargazer Lawn for the installation “Nest” created by Leila Jeffreys and Melvin J. Montalban. LED Technology for Horizon created by the studio PLAYMODES, a hypnotic, full-body experience. Here, trance-like sound and strobing lights play with your spatial perception and offer a glimpse beyond everyday reality. Light and sound sweep over you as you gaze at a giant screen in the distance, projection technology is deployed for Omnivisu created by Berlin and New York based studio TheGreenEyl and at Encounters Before The Tree, created by Javier Riera. Projection Mapping enthusiasts will enjoy the Kia Kaleidoscope at Darling Harbour, where the new Kia EV5 will transform into colour and movement.
We are proud that we can now control all installations from a central point so the projection towers do not disrupt audience vantage points. We have the ability to map all the buildings with projection remotely from our head office in Alexandria, Sydney. We have installed cameras at all installations so that our team can remotely make adjustments to the technology across the entire festival footprint.
In view with TDC LiveView
TDC is deploying its TDC LiveView automated remote monitoring system that will monitor thousands of pieces of equipment to troubleshoot issues and limit staff travel. Operators and engineers are based at a control centre. All data from each installation is provided by TDC LiveView and if any technical challenges arise, engineers are dispatched to immediately resolve any issue. Drew Ferors, Head of Technical Services & Training at TDC, explains: “TDC LiveView is an automated solution that will monitor thousands of pieces of equipment used at Vivid Sydney across our installations. With it we can collect real-time data such as the temperature of all the equipment sitting outdoors in projection enclosures, along with information on how the kit is performing.”
All TDC projector enclosures are climate controlled for enhanced equipment performance with installations at Vivid Sydney monitored by camera systems that also feed back to the LiveView App.
TDC is also supporting a number of artists at Vivid Music at Sydney Opera House.
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