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OLYMPIC GAMES / OLYMPIC PARK ART, LONDON, UK
PARK ARTS
Art and sculpture were factored into the Olympic Park design from the early stages. Many will remain in legacy to give the site a lasting identity around which future development can grow...
CAPITAL IDEA Monica Bonvicini offers some visual encouragement.
Artist Monica Bonvicini was commissioned to create a permanent lighting sculpture to sit within the Olympic Park. Her piece, RUN, comprises three nine-metre tall let- ters installed on the elevated plaza in front of the new Copper Box Handball Arena. The fifteen tonne giant letters, are constructed from mirror-coated glass panels mounted on steel structures so that, during the day, the facets reflect their surroundings. When night falls, the sculpture’s appear-
ance changes. Light sensors activate LED luminaires installed inside the letters. Shining through the glass, they illuminate the outline of each character. Convex mir- rors installed on the inside and invisible in daylight transform the individual LED strings into multiple points of light. The 8464 LEDs, provided by Zumtobel, were housed in an IP 68 rated format and emit high power 7500K light. It is, in the word of the artist herself, an “elegantly psychedelic effect”.
ACTION REPLAY Jason Bruges Studio turns Olympic records into light effects.
Jason Bruges Studios created light based artworks for three of the bridges in the Olympic Park. The first piece, ‘Fast, Faster, Fastest’, takes place over a 100m space located on one of the bridges that leads on to the Olympic Stadium island. It uses a se- ries of speakers and lights embedded in the handrail to recreate the pace of Olympic medal winning athletes. Visitors can select one of four race-winning speeds to compete against. These include the Men’s 100m, Women’s Marathon, Women’s Paralympic 100m and the Men’s Olympic 10,000m. The participant is then prompted to get ‘on their marks’ before a signal sets the race in motion.
Lights running up masts on the start and fin- ish lines indicate the progress of the prepro- grammed athlete, with a beacon at its top that flashes when the race is over. During the games, the installation repro- duced previous Olympic records, but these
will be reprogrammed later to reflect the results of the London 2012 games. The other bridge pieces will be activated after the park enters legacy mode (dur- ing the Games they will be in the ‘back of house’ area). They are sisters to ‘Fast, Faster, Fastest’ - one represents rowers on the water, the other uses lights to recreate the silhouette of an Olympic swimmer. The latter is located underneath a bridge that spans one of the site’s canalways. Footage of a swimmer, shot from below, is pixilated and translated into a video feed for a low-resolution grid of blue lights in- stalled in the underbelly of a bridge. As the public walk along the towpath, the piece throws a ripple-like flow of lighting through the space. In practical terms, the hope is that this light art will create a more engag- ing, safer-feeling space for future users.
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