Published on: February 25, 2009

Realities:United from Berlin/Germany together with Mass Studies from Korea have completed a temporary installation in Seoul for Hi Seoul Spring Festival 2008.

The installation consists of suspended LEDs that converge above and towards the audience in front of the main stage.

Here follows some info by realities:United:

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Shaped like a tornado an array of 1265 linear LED units develops strong centripetal forces 16 meters above the festival crowd on Seoul Plaza.

Using 5 steel towers the suspended steel wire structure with a diameter of over 55 meters was fully constructed in only 5 days.

Framed by Seoul’s skyline this enormous temporary chandelier created the central event space called “May Palace” for the festival program for one week – slightly swaying in the wind and serving shady conditions at daytime the installation was staging an intense choreography of animated light  patterns swirling above the three main performance stages on Seoul Plaza during dark hours.

During live broadcasting of the opening program on Korean television the Media Cloud soon became the favoured motive captured by a group of several robotic cameras and echoed on a series of large-scale video displays behind the stages.