El Mar de Leds

Client

Museo de la Navegación
Junta de Andalucia

Partners

Scenography: GPD Acciona
Production: GPD Acciona
Technical lighting concept: Habegger ag.
vvvv.org coding: Luigi Cassero

Scope of Work

Lighting technical management

Description

In DeMARDELEDber 2011 Sevilla offered a new permanent exhibition: the Museo de la Navegación. The visitors will be transported at the time when raising a boat was all an adventure and when Sevilla was a crucial port in the history of Navigation. The Swiss company Habbeger has been contracted by Spanish design company GPD to conceive and setup a lighting concept application which simulates the movements of the sea. A 56 x 24 m matrix composed by 14500 leds heads has been developped. The leds are inserted into the floor.
A lightsitck is superposed to each led and conveys the emitted light to 12 optical lighting terminals. Each led is identified among a 28 DMX universes network and is individually controlled via Art-Net. The unit renders the ocean. With a Wifi Ipad terminal the visitor controls