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ISE lights up the night ISE 2018 is set to brighten Amsterdam’s dark winter nights with the World Masters of Projection Mapping competition
As well as being mapped onto the façade of the EYE Filmmuseum, part of each competing video artwork will be projected onto two 40m x 15m water screens. (Picture shows ARCO by Teresa Mar from Amsterdam Light Festival 2016 – © Janus van den Eijnden)
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BY PADDY BAKER A joint venture between the Amsterdam Light Festival, RAI Amsterdam and ISE, the new Masters of Projection Mapping (WMPM) competition will see specially created content from five international video artists projected onto the EYE Filmmuseum, alongside the river IJ. This is a modern building whose façade is a complicated arrangement of irregular geometric shapes, onto which the video content will be mapped. Each artwork, which runs for six minutes, will begin with projection onto two 40m x 15m water screens in front of the museum. These screens will then be lowered to allow the projection to take place on the museum façade. Competition technical partners include Panasonic, disguise (formerly D3 Technologies) Lightware and Alcons Audio, which have all supplied eqiupment; and local integrator BeamSystems, which is responsible for the AV installation. Cultural event organiser Artifex is also a partner. The projections from the five shortlisted artists will be shown from 14 January, with the featured artist changing daily. The judging panel, led by Amsterdam Light Festival creative director Lennart Booij, will convene on the evening of Thursday 8 February, when all five videos will be shown, with accompanying audio. A choice
Not yet registered for ISE 2018? Use free invitation code 401799 of hospitality cruise packages for the evening, sailing from the RAI, is available from Artifex – these can be perused via the ISE website. Rembrandt Boswijk, technical project manager for WMPM, said: “After a helicopter, the best place to see the projections is from a boat, because you can move around and look from different angles.” Other key vantage points for seeing the projections include the quay near Central station and the Amsterdam Tower, which is very close to the Filmmuseum. Boswijk added: “What I think is going to be a challenge for the artists is there’s no point that gives you an overview of the whole building – you can only see part of it. So that could be an interesting thing creatively… They have to keep in mind that people will be viewing it from different places – and the view is different from every position.” The competition comes to a climax on Friday at ISE 2018, when the World Masters of Projection Mapping Presentation and Showcase will be held during the show. This will include presentations from all five finalists, and the announcement of the winning entry. Turn to page 16 to read more about the technical set-up of the competition, and to page 18 for more about the winner’s presentation. www.iseurope.org/world-mastersprojection-mapping
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